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There were so many people there that there was no room for anybody. There was no room, so far as I could see, for the man who plays the three-card trick on the top of an open umbrella, or for the man with the tape and pencil, and even the beggars who prayed by the roadside for your success were few. There was simply a crush an enormous, sweltering, and appallingly silent crush.
When a sucker sees a corner turned up, or a little spot on a card in three-card monte, he does not know that it was done for the purpose of making him think he has the advantage. He thinks, of course, the player does not see it, and he is in such a hurry to get out his money that he often cuts or tears his clothes.
"I don't want to lose no more money on baby bets," replied a tantalizing voice. "I'll make it $40 or nothin'. Now, youngster, if y're a man " Shorty softly parted the bushes and looked in. Two of the well-known sharpers who hung around the camps had enticed little Pete in there, and to a game of three-card monte.
Better stay at home, and prepare thy soul with three-card monte" "Ay, señorita, but thou art cruel! Does no man please thee?" "Men please me. How tiresome to dance with a woman!" "And that is all the use thou hast for us? For us who would die for thee?" "In a barrel of aguardiente? I prefer thee to dance with. To tell the truth, thy step suits mine."
And so Legg introduced Macer, and so there came on a little intimacy, and three-card loo, &c. &c.. Year after year scores of Muffs, in various places in the world, are victimised by Legg and Macer.
"What game was that?" he curiously asked. "The fellow called it Rocky Mountain euchre. I'll go and get you some of the tickets, and show everybody how the fellow chiseled me out of my money." "Oh, that's three-card monte," said the wheel man. Alexander was along with me; so I began throwing the cards around awkwardly, when my partner stepped up to the table and began guessing for fun.
He walked all around, inspecting everything, and kicking occasionally at something that got balled up, and when the crowd came to buy tickets, he stood around the grand entrance, looking wise, and he was so good natured that he bet ten dollars he could guess which walnut shell a bean was under, which a three-card monte man was losing money at, and pa lost his ten with a smile.
There were so few "ladies" that they were treated as little short of divinities. This Saturday night there had been no dance, and the men at Gentleman Jack's table at Stinson's had played "three-card monte" on through the dawn and the sunrise, and into broad daylight.
But if you want to tear yourself away from the house and go somewhere with friends to play three-card monte, or have a game of handball don't think of such a thing! How are you getting along? Are you all top notch? TISHKA and PODKHALYÚZIN, who steals in and seizes him by the collar. PODKHALYÚZIN. What are you doing there, you little imp? TISHKA. What? You know what! I was wiping off dust!
I felt quite at home, until, on entering the cars, my eyes lighted on this notice, posted conspicuously everywhere: "Passengers will beware of playing three-card monte, strap, or any other game of chance, with strangers. If you do, you will surely be robbed." All visions of respectable New England vanished at that sight. Quong. His Protégé. His Peace-Offering. The Chinese and their Grandmothers.
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