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5 lines for playing cards, frequented by Compradores, Ber-
The last 5 lines have an average of every night.
21 attendees, the others have an average of 30 to 51 men each.
50 they are sustained by subscription opened speculation. All the others, except Sheriff "the lowt of", receive the fixed sum of the purpose per cent of what the people going. lowt 5 receive from 3 to 5 per cent, little more, as the gamer chooses to.
Yes.
Many respectable Chinese consider "games of chance" to be a disrespectable amusement. They protest against it, they think it is a very bad practice, and men...
228 the greatest boon that might be to men. But at the same time as gaming is very common among the Chinese, some of them think that it is an injurious thing. For they say if a person does not like gaming, though a gambling table is put before him he will go away from it, but if he is fond of gambling, though strict orders are issued against it, yet if there is a gambling house kept in the most private part of the thing he will be sure to find his way there.
This is the man's motive, he tries to do his best in making his fortune, if he is lucky he reaps his benefit and thereby makes money, but if he is not lucky he loses what he has and thereby brings himself to ruin, and what is this? but the man's money draining.