DOINGS IN GAMING HOUSES. The gaming table : its votaries and victims, in all times and countries,
especially in England and in France. Vol. 2 | ||
GAMBLING AT THE WINE AND OYSTER ROOMS, OR `SALOONS.'
The gambling which was carried on in the private rooms of the wine and oyster houses, about thirty years ago, and perhaps later, was just such as that which had so long flourished in the low vicinity of St James's. Indeed, the constant frequenters of the former had attained the most profound knowledge of the art of robbing at the West End gaming houses. The blacklegs visited the saloons every night, in order to pick up new acquaintances among the young and inexperienced. They were polite, well-dressed, gentlemanlike persons; and if they could trace anything `soft' in
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