The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-05-23

garded as "Jonah, and is avoided
for a time and then Ostracized alto
gether. 1t is proverbIal that the mon
ey Of a novice brings luck to the old
gambler, and he will willingly spend a
dollar or two in treating for the priv
ilege of exchanging his checks for
those of the one who has never before
been i'm the game. A gambler of
twenty years experience, now in this
city, has never been known to play on
red card. He owns two houses.
some stocks and a pew in church.
Another, equally fortunate, will under
no circumstances bet on any card I'M
der six spot. while another confines
all his wages to the twelve face cards.
Almost every professional gamester
has favorite card, and sticks to it
with wonderful pertinacity, no matter
what his luck may be. Friday is an
unlucky day to "buck the tiger and
the belief in this superstition is veri-
fled in the thinning out of all the
banks on thai day and night. As the
station house bell tolls the hour of
midnight Interpretations players
lift their chicks from the board until
the clock has flushed, and then the
tickle goddess is supposed to changed
the tide of luck in an opposite direction
either good or bad.
THE EGG JON All.
There are certain recognized
"Jonahs." or pictures Of bad luck"
among dealers, players and visitors.
Among the latter is numbered the
nocturnal egg man, known as erich
mond," who is familiar to almost
everybody who happens to be eating
cloves after midnight. in any of the
all-night resorts. Richmond is tall.
angular, peaceable, and is known to
say very little else save, Eggs, eggs
hard boiled eggs. Sandwiches and
hard-boiled eggs" He peddles his hen
fruit in saloons and gambling houses,
after decent people are abed and
asleep. Richmond is not always a
welcome visitor in the rooms where
fortune is wooed with pasteboard.
His coming in is often greeted with
frowns and scowls and his wares with
disdain, for his appearance is solemnly
averred to knock luck into a cooked
hat, or out of the window altogether.
Two banks have dealers, presumably
honest, who are said to always bring
bad luck, and every bank has at least
one player who will bar out Others
anxious to play because of his repu-
tation.
Lottery policy buyers, however, cap
the climax in depending for success
on signs and dreams. and the inter |
pretations of the latter are innumer-
able. If a colored man receives the !.
suggestion for three numbered ROW"
from a white man he invariably adds |
another number for that reason.
Every dream, however vague and
ridiculous, has its Specification.
Dream books tell what numbers
should he played for the incredible
vision of seeing a crow climb tree
backward d; of dreaming about dogs,
horses. women or guerrillas. Should
the player dream of pink-legged ele-
plants Smelling peas, and the book
furnish no Interpretation, the "writer'
will Immediately coniure up crow"
and take the dupe's money. 1t is
safe to say that every policy row
played in the city is prompted by
some one of the thousand omens, so
as to be beyond calculation,
and while the ignorant policy player
presents the most ridiculous side of
the belief, his flashy brother who sits
before the green cloth is just as
and just as ridiculous.