DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||
`SOMETHING HONOURABLE TO THE BRITISH FLAG.'
It is stated as highly honourable to the British flag that, among the gamesters of the first quarter of the present century, no Admirals were seen at the inferior tables. Their proper pride kept them from a familiar association with pursers, clerks, grocers, horse-dealers, linen-drapers, silk-mercers, masons, builders, timber-merchants, booksellers, &., &., and men of the very lowest walks of life.
DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||