stack deck at fifteen

[Jeremy Osner]

Sergey Kuznetsov wrote:

> "He [Porpentine] stole from street-hawkers, could stack a deck at fifteen,
> would run away whenever fighting is useless" (SL 107, Under the Rose)
>
> What is "fifteen"? The card game?
>

No, the age.

Jeremy
--
Mortals are immortals, and
immortals are mortals, the one
living the other's death and
dying the other's life.

Heraclitus, quoted by Bertrand Russell
http://www.readin.com/books/westernphilosophy/