The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1872-12-27

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"Wlaat did he tllump for?" said ole
Brown.
ale struck the table because lie had
| struck n keno,n said Bob. '.But come,
old gentleman, let's sit down and buy
sone'vards.n They took an unoecupi-
ed table and Bob explained that each
card cost twenty-five cents. and that
you might buy as many as YOU pleased.
A man whom Bob called .'Piggy''
came up, and Bob told old Brown to
buy two cards, which cost him fifty
cents. Bob bought two himself.
Now there were on each card four
horizontal rows. each having OH it five
figures The only figures used in
keno range from ] TO 90 but of course
they callhotallbeoh one card. Ithap-
pened that Oh one Of tie cards old
Brown had bought there We're these
numbers Oh the upper row--5, IL 30,
GS, So; With the rest Of his numbers
we are not concerned. Bob explained
that If he could cover five numbers in
any row with buttons he would Get
the pot.
But | don't wan'ta pot" said old
Brown fifty cents Won't buy a good
pot
"I've kilowni to buy a fifty dollar
pot, said Bob "a pot is a pool"
What is pool z" aSkedold Brown.
AT this moment Piggy" annGuuced
that the pool was S17 rs, and that the
GAME WOULD BEGIN.
Tie dealer began to turn the bottle
round, and the balls began TO drop out |
''Fitty-six," ''Sixty-nine and here
Did Brown with his spectacles on, nut |
/ hutton on Number69. ''Forty-one,"
Eighty" "l'hirty-two," and all
lrouild the room the men were eager
y watching their cards, putting down
buttons and listeaing to the numbers
is they were called. Thirty" and |
lown went another Of Browns but
ons. and soon after he had covered 5,
%. 6H. 81. and Bob, who was getting
xcited, whispered, "All you want i
4; If lie calls II. yoll must call Keno Z
n the top row." Old Brown never
Dok his eye off the card, and SIT like
statue. holding his button up in the
II, ''Eourteen" said The dealer and
". ''KENo .s0S ayiIs3efseoM,''
6ut old Brown. II.
Don't make such a fuss about it,
I'D surly fellow at the next table. :
But I've got q keno..n said old ,
roWll--''a keno on the top row."
'.Mell, you needn't rub it In. dad
'. I've been waiting here with two
Ises.''
What did he wantwith two lses?" !
~ the old gentleman. :
why, to take the pot with. Say.
NJ ought TO be in bed. An old man !
ie you las no business running y y
onnd aud stealing pots this time 6f !" !"
ght." p s,l Y
Old Brown shook with indignation = =
this accusation, Emf Bob called his !,
70 \ Pile OF ivory chips, !, !,
llch Piggy" put before him, and "
ID him that when he wanted TO 60, \,
cashier would redeem them at y. -
llar each. lie bought some more Y Y
rds and continued playing. but every ~ T..
ne ne had four figures covered ina = =
y, or 4 ''case. somebody else would ~
mp the table and the pot was goae.
Q Old gentleman Insisted on buying 4
Oxen cards at a time, and as he
lldn't keep un0fsO many numbers,
lost allhe had won and more. and WI
'ome diSgustcd. lie stopped play ~
aud so did Bob who was com. ll'
tely broke" as he said. 90
lld Brown HOW surveyed the scene on
h Interest and more enlightened ed
1t seems to me, be said. that this lllt
iness Of selling keno is very much We
, galnljling.r Its
80 it's" said Bob; petty gam iol
q reduced to perpetual motion" po'
do you tell mr that Sarah KEEPS 4 TN
lbling hou.es" BIl
Bother Sarah !" said tile youtli = dos
lmde a mistake" me
Then yon are not N.Y. nepllemn n
old brown; give me your hand 70
am very glad Of It, o.
he young man who was. good ma- wI
enough then began to exphiil to ilaI
old gentleman the beauties OF tile cry
Z. lie told linrtlnt ir ssas fair pol
Ugh, aud that 1t was a matter of tlle
luck who won lie said the poo
e Ind no Interest Ii the winner. \
: profits werc mde BY taking Ten DER
cent tAlt OF elsrysllot. But he con
fed how The chances were against owe
ANY SINGLE ,ILAYER. ,.., nou
lave seen" he said. '.oilc man n /
poO.s Of twenty. thirty-tiyc Lew
forty dollars III All hour aid IN, I'M
man buy sixty dollars worth on rlv
III a night and win nothing. mn
,dy can make anything by play 'I'lle
ienn, though all ldelutle themselves iii.
" itlsa tlmtthey nniy. The lone. MN
I'd more steadily yOu play, tlM OI