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Gambling with the Dead
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Gambling with the Dead
In 1783 (or in some accounts 1793), three men were allegedly playing cards in the Chequers Inn, Holbeach, and talking about a friend who had recently died and who used to make up a foursome with them. They hatched a plan that must have seemed like a bloody good one after a skinful of beer: they would play cards with (or at least in the presence of) his corpse in the church opposite the pub, for old time’s sake. In some renditions, his body was t…
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