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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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ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS.
  
OSTENTATIOUS GAMESTERS.
  
`AN INSINUATING, ELEGANT GAMESTER.
  
A PENITENT SONNET, written by the Lord Fitz-Gerald[29] (a great gamester) a little before his death, which was in the year 1580.
  
LOVE AND GAMBLING.
  
`MANNERS MAKE THE MAN.
  
SHARP PRACTICE — NOT BY AN ATTORNEY.
  
A GAMESTER TO THE BACK-BONE.
  
FOOTE'S WITTICISMS.
  
EFFECT OF A SEVERE LOSS AT PLAY.
  
PADDY'S DECISION.
  
GAMBLING CAUSED BY GRIEF.
  
A GAMBLER'S EXCUSE FOR NOT BEING A SECOND IN A DUEL.
  
`MORE FORTUNATE.'
  
CAPTAIN ROCHE.
  
FARO AT ROUTS.
  
OF WHAT TRADE IS A GAMING-HOUSE KEEPER?
  
THE GAME PLAYED IN THE COURT OF CHANCERY.
  
THE ORIGINAL OF A RECENT PROPOSAL.
  
GAME AND GAMBLING.
  
CATCHING A TARTAR.
  
`NOT KNOWING YOUR MAN.'
  
A BLIND GAMESTER.
  
A NOBLE LORD AND A COMMONER, IN 1823.
  
DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.
  
A TENDER MOTHER.
  
TWO MASTERS OF THE ART.
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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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THE ORIGINAL OF A RECENT PROPOSAL.

Not long since an advertisement appeared, and was noticed by several of the papers, purporting to enable any person to realize a large fortune by a small advance to the advertiser. It will readily be seen that the following is the original of the scheme, put forth in the Morning Chronicle, in 1818: —

`Important Offer. A gentleman of respectability has discovered a method of winning at any game of chance, fairly and honourably, to a certainty, by

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a method hitherto unknown; — he will sell the secret for a consideration, or treat with a gentleman able to join him with a capital of £300, by which a fortune may be made; in either case he will engage with one person only. This will be found well worth the attention of a member of the superior clubs. * * * No personal application will we {sic} answered.'

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