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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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A GAMBLER PAWNING HIS EARS.

A clerk named Chambers, losing his monthly pay, which was his all, at a gaming table, begged to borrow of the manager's; but they knew his history too well to lend without security, and therefore demanded something in pawn. `I have nothing to give but my ears,' he replied. `Well,' said one of the witty demons, `let us have them.' The youth immediately took a knife out of his

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pocket and actually cut off all the fleshy part of one of his cars and threw it on the table, to the astonishment of the admiring gamesters. He received his two dollars, and gambled on.

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