 | ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 |  |
GAME AND GAMBLING.
A gentleman celebrated for his quickness at repartee, when informed that a young nobleman of his acquaintance (remarkably fond of a fashionable game) had shot an immense number of red partridges, and also of the black game, which abounded on his estates, replied — `I am not in the least sur-prised; he was at all times, even when in London, devotedly attached to the game of Rouge et Noir.'
| ODDITIES AND WITTICISMS OF GAMBLERS. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | |