id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 53835 Nevill, Ralph Light Come, Light Go: Gambling—Gamesters—Wagers—The Turf .txt text/plain 115804 4908 69 gaming at White's--The Arms of the Club--The old betting-book A gives B one thousand guineas to play in this manner six hours a day fashionable gaming-houses of his time, frequently played through a pleasure and because the game amuses me, whilst you play merely to win." Though Fox rather excelled at card games of skill, horse-racing was a number of ladies kept what were practically public gaming-tables to having "played at a certain fraudulent and unlawful game called faro, played for were ten pounds a game, and guineas were betted on the odd gambling-tables at country race meetings, whose banks he was given to Club, in old days notorious for high play, still exists. he lost very large sums at the gaming-table, where he once staked existence of the Paris gaming-tables there was at times a good deal In 1814 the stakes on the tables of the French gaming-houses consisted ./cache/53835.txt ./txt/53835.txt