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The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries, especially in England and in France. Vol. 2

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THE GAMING TABLE.

1.

CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS.

2.

PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS.

3.

ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS.

4.

ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS.

5.

ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS.

6.

THE GAMING CLUBS.

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DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES.

COFFEE-HOUSE SHARPERS.

MILLER'S GAMING HOUSE.

ATTACKS ON GAMING HOUSES.

`SOMETHING HONOURABLE TO THE BRITISH FLAG.'

COARSE LANGUAGE OF GAMESTERS.

BOASTED PROTECTION OF GREAT NAMES TO GAMING HOUSES.

FORTUNATE RISE OF A CLUB-HOUSE WAITER.

PLAY IN 1820.

ACCOUNT OF A GAME AT HAZARD.

PROGRESS IN THE GAMING TRADE.

STATISTICS OF GAMBLING IN 1844.

DESPERATION AT GAMING HOUSES.

`DEVILISH DOINGS IN A "HELL.'' '

GAMBLING AT THE WINE AND OYSTER ROOMS, OR `SALOONS.'

CARDS THAT WOULD BEAT THE D — L HIMSELF!

GENEROSITY (?) OF A GAMING HOUSE KEEPER.

HOSPITALITY OF GAMING HOUSES, AND POPULARITY OF CITY MEN AT THEM.

THE TRAFFIC IN HUSH MONEY.

WALKING OFF WITH A £200 BANK-NOTE.

PERQUISITES OF GAMBLING HOUSE WAITERS.

TITLED GREEKS, OR `DECOYS.'

WHY CHEATS WERE CALLED GREEKS.

GAMING TABLE SLANG AND MANŒUVRES.

SPECIMEN OF A QUASI GAMING HOUSE CIRCULAR.

8.

THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING.

9.

THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS.

10.

PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT, CROSS AND PILE, THIMBLE-RIG.

11.

12.

THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL.

13.

FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES).

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PLAY IN 1820.

According to the Morning Post of May 15, 1820, at one of the gaming houses at the West End, in one night, property to the amount of £50,000 is said to have changed hands.