“ Now, on this subject of game, I ’ ve something to say that will ease the professor ’ s mind on a point that he seemed anxious about. I am no musician; but I ’ ll just show you how a man that understands one art understands every art. I made out from the gentleman ’ s remarks that there is a man in the musical line named Wagner, who is what you might call a game sort of composer; and that the musical fancy, though they can ’ t deny that his tunes are first-rate, and that, so to speak, he wins his fights, yet they try to make out that he wins them in an outlandish way, and that he has no real science. Now I tell the gentleman not to mind such talk. As I have just shown you, his game wouldn ’ t be any use to him without science. He might have beaten a few second-raters with a rush while he
