card-gambling

Updated: May 21, 2025

But it had not to be endured much of the time, for Ned had grown more and more to disdain our society, and to cultivate companions superior to us in years and knowledge of the world. They were, indeed, a smart, trick-playing, swearing set, who aped their elders in drinking, dicing, card-gambling, and even in wenching.

Robert Neilson Stephens - Philip Winwood: A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.

'Euchre' is the favourite game, then 'Nap' and 'Loo; but it would not be fair to call the Australians a card-gambling people in comparison with the Californians. This is essentially the land of newspapers. The colonist is by nature an inquisitive animal, who likes to know what is going on around him. The young colonial has inherited this proclivity.

Richard Ernest Nowell Twopeny - Town Life in Australia