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He had lost all his own money gamblin' in stocks, and, not only that, but he'd lost all that other folks had given him to take care of. He was treasurer of the Eagle Fish Freezin' Company and he'd stolen there until that company had to fail.
"Pay up the dad's gamblin' debts, an' bid this Knight o 'the Green Cloth a swate an' long fare-ye-well. Then go an' be happy, me child." The Dragon and the Tomahawk "Which I wish to remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar, Which the same I would rise to explain." Bret Harte.
Now I tell yer what I want yer to go back to my camp I've got plenty uv gold, an' it's no good to me, only fur gamblin' an' drinkin'; yer welcome to enough uv it to git yerself home, an' git on yer feet when yer get thar." Berryn looked doubtingly at him as they entered the saloon. "P'r'aps somebody here ken tell this gentleman my name?" said Buffle. "Buffle!" said several voices in chorus.
"Bosh! Look at me," rejoined Sibley. "Drink women nit! Not for me! I've got no vice. I don't even smoke." "No vice? Begobs, yours has got you like a tire on a wheel! Vice what do you call gamblin'? It's the biggest vice ever tuk grip of a man. It's like a fever, and it's got you, John, like the nail on your finger." "Well, p'r'aps, he's got that vice too.
'You see, continued Leather, in explanation, 'their father is one of them tight-laced candlestick priests wot abhors all sorts of wice and himmorality, and won't stand card playin', or gamblin', or nothin' o' that sort, so the young ladies when they want to settle a point, who's to be married first, or who's to have the richest 'usband, play fly loo.
"Jumped overboard off Finisterre, on the homeward vyage. Shocking thing, gamblin' when you lose." "Ach Gott! And those two knives upon the wall, the straight one and the one with the crook; is there a history about them?" "An incident," the major answered languidly. "Curious, but true. Saw it meself.
Conniston nodded, thinking that he began to guess Pete's troubles. "Don't you know can't you tell how Miss Jocelyn feels toward you, Pete? Is that it?" "That's it, only how in blazes you guessed it gets me! Con, I tell you, I can't tell nothin' for sure. It's worse 'n gamblin' on the weather.
I'll never forget the night I sat beside my dyin' fire and felt that I didn't even take no interest in winnin' their money from the boys; and then suddenly most like a voice from outside somep'n in me says: 'What's the matter with you, Sadie Nitschkan, is that you're a reapin' the harvest you've sowed, gipsyin' and junketin', fightin' and gamblin' with no thought of the serious side of life?"
He halted there, pulled out his pocket-knife, and judicially selected a hickory limb, which he cut and carefully pruned. "What're you goin' to do?" asked Pete apprehensively. "I'm goin' to give you a lesson on the evils of gamblin', Pete, especially when you don't know how." "But I did know how," persisted Pete. "I beat them fellers twice, and could beat them every time.
No doubt drinkin', smokin', an' gamblin' makes men jolly them at least that's tough an' that wins! but I'm jolly without 'em, boys, jolly as a cottontail rabbit just come of age." "An' ye look it, old man," returned the young fellow, puffing cloudlets with the utmost vigour; "but come, Ben, won't ye spin us a yarn about your frontier life?"
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