Designed especially as a warning to the youthful and inexperienced against the evils of that odious and destructive vice.
For magicians and gamblers, the various explanations of cheating are most interesting.
Excerpt from the preface:
Very few of those who have employed their pens in opposition to the vice which forms the subject of the following pages, have had the advantage of speaking from personal observation and experience. They have, nevertheless, done much good, for which they are justly entitled to the approbation and gratitude of their fellow-men. To many, however, it has long appeared very desirable that some of those who, for years, have been intimately identified with this desolating evil, would resolutely come forward, and “speak what they do know, and testify what they have seen,” in relation to it. In the work here submitted to the patronage of the community, this want is humbly attempted to be supplied.
Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- GAMBLING
- AN AFFECTING ACCOUNT OF A YOUNG MAN BROUGHT TO RUIN AND AN UNTIMELY DEATH BY GAMBLING.
- THE GAME OF POKER
- Cheating in various Ways
- An Incident showing the ruinous effects of the Game of Poker
- MISCELLANEOUS EXAMPLES OF THE SMOCKING EFFECTS OF GAMBLING
- Horrible Death of a Gambler at Columbus, Mississippi
- Murder and Suicide in New Orleans
- THE DEMORALIZING INFLUENCES OF RACE-FIELDS
- THE GAME OF FARO
- Terms used in the Game of Faro
- Method of Dealing, Rules of the Game, &c
- Odds at the Game of Faro
- Deceptions used in the Game of Faro
- ROULETTE AND ROLLING FARO
- CHUCKER-LUCK
- VINGT-UN, OR TWENTY-ONE
- THE GAME OF BRAG
- EUCRE
- THE GAME OF BOSTON
- THE GAME OF ALL FOURS
- Laws of the Game
- Rules of Playing
- Deceptions used in the Game of All Fours
- WHIST
- CRIBBAGE
- BACKGAMMON
- THE GAME OF CRAPS
- BILLIARDS
- COCK-FIGHTING
- VARIOUS DECEPTIVE TRICKS
- THE BROKER
- TRICKS IN HORSE-RACING
- TRUE PICTURE OF THE GAMBLER’S DESTINY
- DIALOGUES ILLUSTRATIVE OF THE GAMBLER’S LIFE
- Dialogue between a Judge and a Gambler
- Dialogue between a Congressman and a Gambler
- Dialogue between a Gambler and a Travelling Agent
- INGENUITY OF GAMBLERS
- THERMOMETER OF THE DIFFERENT STAGES OF A GAMBLING LIFE
- CARD MANUFACTORIES
- LOTTERIES
- A DISCOURSE ON THE EVILS OF GAMING
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- NOTICES OF THIS WORK, LETTERS, &c.
5th edition 1847, PDF 176 pages.
word count: 101523 which is equivalent to 406 standard pages of text
