<span> He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute</span>
Let x be the number of games they lost.
They won four games more than they lost, meaning they won 4+x games.
Games won + Games lost = Total games.
(4+x) + x = 18
4 + 2x = 18
2 + x = 9
x = 7
They lost 7 games, won 11 games.
Check : 7+11 = 18.
THE STRANGER fills the frogs belly with quail shot.
The title of the book is 'The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras county'.
Smiley bet with a stranger that his frog can beat any other frog and the stranger agreed to go into competition with him. Smiley lost the competition, because unknown to him the stranger has filled his frog with quail shot when he went to the stream to catch a frog for the stranger.
