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Many who are drawn into the net are adroitly permitted to win a little, and afterwards to lose much. Sailors on shore for a day's liberty are profitable game for these thimble-riggers, as they are called with us. Both Spaniards and Creoles patronize them, and occasionally a negro tries his luck with a trifle.
Like a dove above the dovecot, he circled for an hour or two about the table a deal one, such as thimble-riggers use, borrowed, under protest, from his own humble bedroom and then, with a murmurous coo about the weather showing no signs of clearing up, he took a hand.
I'll make you a varse, that will suit a despisable colonist exactly. "I went up to London, the capital of the nation, To see Lord Stanley, and get a sitivation. Says he to me, 'Sam Slick, what can you do? Says I, 'Lord Stanley, jist as much as you. Liberate the rebels, and 'mancipate the niggers. Hurror for our side, and damn thimble-riggers. "Airth and seas!
'Oh, my poor dear Jack! exclaimed his lordship, throwing himself off his horse, and wringing his hands in despair, as a select party of thimble-riggers, who had gone to Jack's assistance, raised him up, and turned his ghastly face, with his eyes squinting inside out, and the foam still on his mouth, full upon him.
Do you suppose those scoundrels care for the Church the Church, indeed! Wait until I see them any of them Erhaupt by choice, and I'll make them give up every franc you've lent them, or I'll horsewhip and expose them for the gang of welshers and thimble-riggers they are; or if they prefer their own methods, I'll call them out in rotation and shoot their arms and legs off."
Con game or just busted?" "I'm sure I don't know what you mean, young man," snapped Mother. "Well, if you two are like me, nothing but just honest workmen, you better try and make 'em think you're working some game tell 'em you're the Queen of the Thimble-riggers or some dern thing like that. Come on, now. Been gathering wood; got enough. You can follow me.
Going up to his horses' heads, he examined their bits; not that he knew anything about bits he didn't pay his coachman sixty pounds a year to do his work for him, that had never been his principle. Indeed, his reputation as a horsey man rested mainly on the fact that once, on Derby Day, he had been welshed by some thimble-riggers.
Going up to his horses' heads, he examined their bits; not that he knew anything about bits he didn't pay his coachman sixty pounds a year to do his work for him, that had never been his principle. Indeed, his reputation as a horsey man rested mainly on the fact that once, on Derby Day, he had been welshed by some thimble-riggers.
I'll make you a varse, that will suit a despisable colonist exactly. "I went up to London, the capital of the nation, To see Lord Stanley, and get a sitivation. Says he to me, 'Sam Slick, what can you do? Says I, 'Lord Stanley, jist as much as you. Liberate the rebels, and 'mancipate the niggers. Hurror for our side, and damn thimble-riggers. "Airth and seas!
This parlor arrangement is so nearly universal as to be absolutely ludicrous. Sabbath Scenes in Havana. Thimble-Riggers and Mountebanks. City Squares and their Ornamentation. The Cathedral. Tomb of Columbus. Plaza de Armas. Out-Door Concerts. Habitués of Paseo de Isabella. Superbly Appointed Cafés. Gambling. Lottery Tickets. Fast Life. Masquerade Balls. Carnival Days. The Famous Tacon Theatre.
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