You always wrote hieroglyphically, yet not to come up to the mystical notations and conjuring characters of Dr. Parr.

You always wrote hieroglyphically, yet not to come up to the mystical notations and conjuring characters of Dr. Parr.

They stake their necklaces, leggings, ornaments, and in fact, their all, on the play, which is done sometimes with blue wild plum-stones, hieroglyphically charactered, and sometimes with playing bones, but oftener with common cards.