Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-03-03
FROM he .Ne'g Monthly Magazine.
ANECDOTES OF GAMING.


Perhaps the most unhappy event that can
fefal person who visits the gaming table
for the first time IL that he should retire from
1t u winner There appears so little reason
why that which has already so easily been
done. should net with equal facility be re-
peated. that II il all but "A certainty the for
tunate prayer will make the attempt | stroll
ad one night with friend into Frascati He
was no player any more than myself, howe
yer, he threw out bait Of three or four
Napoleons to Lady Fortune; she was kind,
and in less than an hour. his pockets were
Srammed with gold He wisely resolved TO
march of with the spoil. aud. in that laada-
BILE intention, desired the dealer 10 exchange
bis gold for notes. After receiving four
thousand francs in paper, there still remain
cd three unlucky Napoe0ns. Lets see
what we can do with these +" cried p
lie lost them. That was pr ovokir Re
solved to recover them, he changed one of
his notes-then another In less than ten
minutes he leitthe room without frank in
his purse. Rejecting ON the diGcutIg only
of quitting the gamble table winner. he
never played again The fate OF poor
G---m is remembered " many He
was one of the most estimahl, men ever
knew In him were combined the ke.H gual.
aeaNS
witty, good humored. benevolent With
these qualifications, and one ether which
seldom operates TO a mans di>advantage-a
clear income of three thousand a year-the
best society in Paris was open 10 him. IL
had been a visitcr 20 that capital about a
month, when he received an invitation 10
one OF the splendid dinners given weekly. at
the Salon. As he never pla} ed, lac hesitat
ed about the proprlety Of accepting ii, bat,
on the assurance that 1t would not be ex-
pected OF him that he should play. and,
moreover, as he might not again have 50
good an opportunity Of visiting an establish
tnent Of the kind, for the satisfaction of his
curiosity he went. lie had Il few straw Ma
poeons in his purse. to throw them lust
fer the good of the house. as he considered
it-could hardly he called play. go he threw
them. Poor felow he left off a winner of
fourteen hundred Napoleons so easily
wea Tie went again--again-and again;
but he was not always winner within
fifteen months Of the moment his hand first
grasped the dico box, he MAS lying dead in
a goal.
Butthe termination ofpoor. foolish E----w's
career Is still more contemptble-it is lud-
erous This young gentleman, being fool
OF the first water, and possessing a proper
staggered about the good cit, Of Paris. as
foolish young gentleman has an undoubted
right to do. lie disdained to creep into a
gaming house with haIfa crown in his hand:
ne, he went INTO Frsscati, dash, with five
hundred pounds. resolved at once TO break
the tables. AT one period of the evening he
was IN fair way OF carving his threat into
execution, being winner of thirty eight
thousand francs (about $4,000 he, then.
somewhat abated the lerocitv Of his fiIst in
tention, and declared that he should he "a
tsiied, for that night, as soon as he had
made his thirty eight and even forty, lac
walked home without shilling He rci.er-
ated this pnieeng experiment against the
devoted tables with terrific rancour. Now.
when 1t csmes 10 a decided struggle. and
one party is fully bent on DESTROYING The OH
err ii is tolerably evident that in The end.
one oi the two must come off second best -
How il Jared with the tables will reaGily be
guessed; but the gallant assaiant NAV nav
be seea braadishing yard measure hcbind
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