Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-01
LONDON CLUBS.
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cabling is Made . Business Of at
r~ These Places.
ubo has evidently acquired con-
".ab1e knowledge of club gambling
lard sharping from rueful experi-
:. writes: To listen to the converse
Of a gambler you would
;nr he never won. This
III" ,be kind OF thing: Eyes,
NV luck, here l am losing again;
- serves me right, for I swore after
u. loss on Tuesday night I'd never
,,ob a card again. It's simply too
Pstnl, I never win! Other fellows
wa a turn OF bad luck. and then the
a ,,o goddess shines on them; but
e en- me never. Upon my honor, last
T lost more than six thousand
em / dare say you won't believe it,
u Then. to any one replying, "Oh!
va W. nov l heard of your winning
o., NIGHT two or three hundred" he
III Il reioin, by jove! it's too bad. OF
a"rse that's got all over the place.
~. certainly I did win that; but of
.nrsc YOU never heard of my losing
,"ren hundred only three nights be-
" do win sometimes, l admit;
~ # is invariably when I'm playing
y comparatively nothing; when /
ave piled up the agony and am play
,c fairly high, l lose.
That IS a pretty faithful report of the
,.nal conversation of a professional
ssmbler. There is one man of this
Eort whose income, to my certain
knowledge, is exactly two thousand
oo,nds a wear; and he has a fine house.
Earriages, horses-eyerything simply
@terfect. He entertains magniG-
Esntlv, lives at the rate of four
spn thousand pounds a year and has
10 debts. How does he do it? The
[rply is, this man-who wishes you to
npjeye he is so desperately unlucky-
"a card player. He will begin play
mo- ecarte a pony a game, and a pony
N fine rub-not a bad stake for an in
pane Of two thousand pounds a year!
alter on he will get into big figures; it
EIl be a hundred pounds q game and a
Kindred pounds the rub; and then '.the
best out Of three games for a thou. and
Ike stop" Lastly it is "double or
%uits," and he rises winner on the
rirht of some thousands. This man
has. too, a splendid zero. 1t is this.
Early in the evening he announces that
e must 90 home early; his wife is ill,
and he has promised to be home soon.
HI he is q winner at two o'clock he
rises, looks at his watch, is astounded
TO see the hour-he must go at once.
hi the loser wishes him to remain on
and give him a chance, he replies:
No. | really can't tonight; I'll give
sou your revenge any other night, old
Fellow; but tonight l must 20 home.
warned you before we began that
Min or lose I must stop, as my wife is
All this looks straight enough; but is
$50? No. For if at two O'Clock this
man is a loser he not only sticks on till
be has got back his losings. but waits
bill he has put on a few hundreds to
Ehe good. It may be thought this game
could only be played a few times. 1
Fngself have seen it successfully per-
Fomcd fifty times.
Quite the prince of sharpers is a man
vho has been at the work for about
Fifteen years. and is a past mister in
The art. He is a member of lots of
clubs, and / have heard it computed
that he must have landed over fifty
thousand pounds sterling at the least.
He is assisted by a more or less attrac-
tive wife, and it a chiefly through
falling in love with her that one poor
Fellow, some five years ago, lost more
than five thousand pounds at ecarte at
one sitting at his rooms at Brighton.
The lucky winner of this sum began
with no income at all; and yet up to
the time he married he lived at the rate
d quite three thousand pounds a year.
His wife has an income of a few hun
dreds, and he now manages to live
quite en- millionaire. At Paris he is
we'll known; his wife's arrival and her
dresses are described in lie Boulevard,
"a Bias and similar papers. He has
made various paying trips to gambling
PAGES abroad, where when he has
picked up men who won at the tables,
DIS wife would invite them in .'to sup
per and a smoker" and then he and his
.onfederates skinned them.-St. James
Gazette