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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.

CAUGHT IN A TRAP.

AN ATTORNEY `DONE' BY A GAMBLER.

A VERY CURIOUS STORY.

SKITTLE SHARPERS.

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PROFESSIONAL GAMESTERS AND THEIR FRAUDS.

CHEATING AT WHIST.

CARD TELEGRAPHY.

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ANECDOTES OF THE PASSIONS AND VICISSITUDES OF GAMESTERS.

UNFORTUNATE WINNING.

LORD WORTHALL'S DESPERATE WAGER.

THE CELEBRATED THADDEUS STEVENS.

A PROVIDENT GAMBLER.

A MAGNIFICENT FORTUNE WASTED.

AN ENTERPRISING CLERK.

GAMBLING FOR RECRUITS FOR THE ARMY.

DOUBLING THE STAKES.

AN ANNUITY FOR A GAMBLING DEBT.

SIR WILLIAM COLEPEPPER.

THE BITER BITTEN.

HEAVY LIABILITIES TO BEGIN WITH.

A GENTLEMAN TURNED BARBER.

PENSIONED OFF BY A GAMING HOUSE.

HOW MANY GAMESTERS LIVE BY PLAY?

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ATROCITIES, DUELS, SUICIDES, AND EXECUTION OF GAMBLERS.

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.

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.

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.

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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.'

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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6.

THE GAMING CLUBS.

2. THE COCOA-TREE CLUB.

3. GRAHAM'S CLUB.

4. BROOKES' CLUB, IN ST JAMES'S STREET.

5. WHITE'S CLUB.

6. WATTIER'S CLUB.

7. CROCKFORD'S CLUB.

8. THE TRAVELLERS' CLUB,

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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.

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.

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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.

FARO, OR PHARAOH.

CROSS AND PILE.

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12.

THE TURF, HISTORICAL, SOCIAL, MORAL.

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FORTUNE-TELLING BY CARDS (FOR LADIES).

FORTUNE-TELLING FORTY YEARS AGO, OR, THE STORY OF MARTHA CARNABY.

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AMUSING CARD TRICKS.[86]

PRELIMINARY HINTS.

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2.

2. The four inseparable kings.

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3. The barmaid and the three victimizers.

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4. How to name every card in a pack successively turned up by a second party, and win every trick at a hand of Whist.

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5. Two persons having each drawn a card and replaced them in the pack, to guess these cards.

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6. Twenty cards being arranged upon a table, a person thinks of two, and you undertake to guess them.

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7. To tell a card thought of without even looking at the cards.

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8. A person having thought of one of fifteen cards pre-sented to him, to guess the card thought of.

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9. Two persons having each drawn a card from a pack, and having replaced them, to tell these cards after the pack has been shuffled and cut by the spectators as often as they like.

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10. Singular arrangement of sixteen cards.

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11. The seven trick.

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12. Infallible method for guessing any number that a party has thought of.

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13. The card that cannot be found.

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14. Cards being drawn from a pack, to get them guessed by a person blindfolded.

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15. The mystery of double sight.

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17. The Arithmetical Puzzle.

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18. To get a card into a pack firmly held by a party.

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`NOT KNOWING YOUR MAN.'

A certain high military character sat down to play with a Russian prince, who introduced loaded dice. The travelled Englishman lost every bet; for the Russian never missed his seven or eleven, and modestly threw only ten times. The supposed pigeon then took up the box with fair dice; and,

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having learned to `secure,'[33] called different mains at pleasure; threw sixteen times; won all the aristocrat's money, and wished him good night. Such is the effect of not knowing your man! [33] This term means making sure of what you throw.