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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857. Excerpt: ... Dress iol Address of the Gambler.--Anecdote of a Button. their ill-gotten gain flies from hand to hand, and none of them are ever rich. This class of men pay great attention to their dress; which, when not gaudy, is at least rich and fashionable. This they consider very essential to aid them in therr designs; as by it they expect to command respect and attention, and to induce people to think they have plenty of money. And those who are at all disposed to gamble, will sooner play with such men as I have been speaking of, until they had lost their all, when, if they had beat them, they could not have made any thing; but such is the propensity of certain players for play, that when they once get at it, they only stop when their money gives out. I was well acquainted with the circumstance of a young man starting to go to the Hot Springs of Ar-kansas. He was a man who had acquired, by honesty and industry, about nine hundred dollars. He had been in bad health for some time, and concluded to visit the springs to recruit his health. On his arrival at the mouth of White River, he was detained for a boat, and while there, he was induced to play cards. I am unable to say, at this time, what was the game that he played, but he won some forty or fifty dollars, and the game broke up. After the game was broken up, one of the gamblers pulled out a button, and bantered the young man to win it at faro; and he pulled out a quarter, and bet it against the button, and the banker won. He tried again and again, until he lost some three or four dollars, trying to win the button, and then quit and went to bed. The banker had now several persons betting small bets on the game, and had won some eight or ten dollars, and there was quite a noise and bustle going on. The young man, ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235519468
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 90
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1235519465
  • Publisher Date: 18 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 177 gr


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