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1 History of the Gaming Houses, and Gamesters of the Metropolis 1824

handle is hein.trials/xygam0001 and id is 1 raw text is: A HISTORY
OF THE
GAMING HOUSES,
AND
GAMESTEnS
OF THE METROPOLIS.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS-GAMING ANECDOTES.
 When
All was lost, he fixed his e3es upon the ground,
And atood sometime with folded arms, stupid
And motionless.-Then snatching his sword,
That hung against the waiuscoat, lie sat him
Do-wn, and, with a look of fixed attention,
Drew figures on the floor.--t last he started
Up, looked wild, and trembled; and like a
Woman, seized with her sex's fits, laughed out
Aloud, while the tears trickled down his face.
-So he left the room.        1 Ei GAMESTER.
-JfCI have erred in these things, half the Nobility in the land have
bean my example.                                   THURTELL.
THE prevalent vice of the present day, and the most fruit-
ful source of every species of crime, is GAMING: Ruin-
Despeation-Robbery-3urder, aid Suicide, are among the con-
com'tant evils of this pernicious and fatal habit.  Should a re-
cent horrid catastrophe lead to a full disclosure of those NOC-
TUB -NAL IIELLS-their Proprietors- Visitors- Victims ; and a
faithful picture of the diabolical scenes, which have too long
been carried on with impunity, under midnight concealment ;-
should these be held up to general execration, and become a

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