The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1871-04-20

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On the night in question he introdu
ced US into the most fashionable and fire.
Iquented gambling house a marble
front building, with plate glass doors,
with a very conspicuous gold number up
on them, and fitted up in what might
truly be called 'palatial" style After
passing through the long corridorand
two doors--which opened slowly, as if
the entrance was vigilantly guarded,
though l saw no one but couple Of very
sedate looking men-and up flight of
stone steps, we emerged into hail. re-
lsplendent with gas chandeliers, plate
glass mirrors, long tables, and elegant
slde-boards, covered with decanters of
choice wines, and dainty little baskets
holding the most fragrant Havana cigars
The room was comfortably full, and
9 faro" and roulette" were in full oper-
alton, but everything was conducted in
quiet and orderly manner. Attentive
walters in snowy white jackets fitted
noiselessly about, supplying the game
sters at the table with liquors and cigars.
To my inexperienced eyes it was like
a scene from fairy land We took a
drink-the best Madeira ever tasted
as a preliminary, ara then watched the
progress of rhe game | was leaning
over the chair of an CID fellow who APP
peared to have been playing vigorous
game, and with rather poor success. He
looked like farmer from the country,
being much more coarsly dressed than
those around him, and his features bore
evidence of having been exposed to
rather rough weather. He had a pile Of
round pieces of ivory, or some kind Of
bone, with red ring round the edge,
and red figure in the centre, before
him, and he kept placing them on diff
ferent cards that were fastened to a green
cloth-one of each denomination in the
pack-whilst the dealer opposite was
sliding other cards from square silver
box, just large enough to hold a pack, and
contrlved in some manner so as to pass
but one card at time
"Thats faro " whispered Walte..
That's what they call buclking against
the tiger !"
| asked him where they kept the
+" tiger, and he gave an indescribable
leec as he answered:
"Just you stake ten pounds on one of
those cards and you'll feel his claws"
Eyes, said the old fellow, who over
heard us, looking up in my face-he
had just!staked the last ivory chip and
lost-"that's true, neighbor. This ere
lighting the tiger is the sarest thing out"
" How sure ?" asked, in surprise.
1.-The more you put down the less
you'll take up" was his answer.
He grinned at me in CHASTITY ,cadaver-
Gus sort Of manner, got up, made for al
deoanter labelled 'swhiskey,p poured out
a generous portion into glass, drank it
off as if it had been so much water, and
walked quietly out of the room.
a whole moral essay against gambling
could not have had more effect upon me,
at the time, that these few quaint words
recognized their points at once, and re-
solved that | would put down nothing
Parks appeared very much chagrined at
this determination upon my part, though
was at loss to understand why it
should trouble him, as my losses or gains
would not affect his pocket; yet that it
did trouble him was quite apparent even
to my unsophisticated eyes.
Finding that was resolutely bent
upon abstaining from the game, and that
Walter was of the same inclination, un
| der some pretext or other he got us out
of the gambling house. Our next stop
ping place was in some private upper
rooms. My brain was reeling under the
effects of the numerous rotations, and
literally speaking, was full of the g old
Harry Like great many other young
men fresh to London life, I was In for q
high old time"-and had it.
At the supper-rooms Parks found a
friend, small dapper- looking man, with
curling brown hair, and splendid NOUS
tache-in fact a splendid looking fellow,
with joval manner, and rakish ap
pearance altogether-a man that, if had
been perfectly sober, 1 should have
avoided as a dangerous characted-one
of those elegant human panthers who are
always ready to pounce upon
verdant young men from the
country. I took him for Jolly fellow
on that occasion, and fraternized with
him at once. Parks introduced him to us
under the name of Shirley, and whispered
cOnfdentially in my ear that he belong
ed to one OF the first families in the city.
| felt rather proud of the honor of know
ing this yoang man. We exchanged
tokens OF mutual esteem before we parted
| Parks had been badgering me all the
evening about my timidity in. refusing to
play at faro" and asked me if 1 could
play everlasting IN that sarcastic,
haunting manner SO extremely annoying
to young men just taking their first ex-
perience of life, and who wish to be
thought very worldly-wise. 1 told him
that could not only play everlasting"
but that I would bet him fifty pounds
that could beat him three out of five
games of whist. He accepted at once,
and we all sat down to cards in private