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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.
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CHEVALIERS D'INDUSTRIE, OR POLITE SHARPERS.
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PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS.
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ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS.
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ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS.
  
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SIR JOHN BLAND, OF KIPPAX PARK.
  
LORD MOUNTFORD.
  
A SUICIDE ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL.
  
REVELATIONS OF A GAMBLER ON THE POINT OF COMMITTING SELF-MURDER.
  
INCORRIGIBLE.
  
SUICIDE IN 1816.
  
OTHER INSTANCES.
  
IF I LOSE I SHALL COMMIT SUICIDE.
  
SUICIDE AT VERDUN.
  
`IN AT THE DEATH.'
  
A GAMBLER PAWNING HIS EARS.
  
A GAMBLER SUBMITTING TO BE HANGED.
  
TWO GAMBLERS TOSSING WHO SHOULD HANG THE OTHER.
  
GAMBLING DUELS IN THE YEAR 1818.
  
GAMING DUEL AT PARIS, 1827.
  
THE END OF A GAMESTER.
  
DUEL WITH A SHARPER.
  
MAJOR ONEBY AND MR GOWER.
  
THE NEPHEW OF A BRITISH PEER.
  
EDWARD WORTLEY MONTAGU AND THE JEW ABRAHAM PAYBA.
  
DR WILLIAM DODD.
  
CAPTAIN DAVIS.
  
DESPERATE CAREER OF HENRY WESTON.
  
ARTHUR THISTLEWOOD.
  
FOUNTLEROY, THE FORGER.
  
GAMBLING FOR LIFE.
  
ONE OF MANY INSTANCES.
  
TRURTELL THE MURDERER.
  
A MOST WONDERFUL END OF A GAMBLER.
  
A SAD REMINDER.
  
GEORGE IV.
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ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS.
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THE GAMING CLUBS.
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DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES.
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THE DOCTRINE OF PROBABILITIES APPLIED TO GAMBLING.
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THE HISTORY OF DICE AND CARDS.
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PIQUET, BASSET, FARO, HAZARD, PASSE-DIX, PUT, CROSS AND PILE, THIMBLE-RIG.
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COCK-FIGHTING.
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THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL.
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FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES).
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DOUBLING THE STAKES.

A dashing young man of large fortune, about the year 1820, lost at a subscription house at the West End, £80,000. The winner was a person of high rank. The young man, however, by doubling the stakes, not only recovered his losses, but in his turn gained considerably of his antagonist.

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