Forty Years a Gambler On the Mississippi
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M., when I closed up. While I was packing up my wheel, a fellow came up to me and said, " I've got a man with me who has got about $1,700, and I want him to lose it. He loves to play poker ; do you think you can beat him?" "Oh, yes," I replied, "I can come pretty near doing it." He said, " I want half, as he is a thief, and no good. I had to divide $3,500 with him that I got in Nat- chez to-day.' * Well, bring him to me, and I 'vsill try^ it ;" and he did so. I was not long in doing him up for ...his part of the stealings. I divided with the other thief, and then opened out my rouge et noir game. The other fellow dropped in, and I won his part of the money, so I had it all. I bid him good night and went to bed ; but I could not sleep, because I knew that the one I beat last would rob me if he got a chance. I laid in my bed a long time. Presentl}- I heard some one feel the knob of the outside door. I was in the upper berth, and had my pistol under my pillow. My partner was in the lower berth, for he had not been well that night, and went to bed earl}-.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
M., when I closed up. While I was packing up my wheel, a fellow came up to me and said, " I've got a man with me who has got about $1,700, and I want him to lose it. He loves to play poker ; do you think you can beat him?" "Oh, yes," I replied, "I can come pretty near doing it." He said, " I want half, as he is a thief, and no good. I had to divide $3,500 with him that I got in Nat- chez to-day.' * Well, bring him to me, and I 'vsill try^ it ;" and he did so. I was not long in doing him up for ...his part of the stealings. I divided with the other thief, and then opened out my rouge et noir game. The other fellow dropped in, and I won his part of the money, so I had it all. I bid him good night and went to bed ; but I could not sleep, because I knew that the one I beat last would rob me if he got a chance. I laid in my bed a long time. Presentl}- I heard some one feel the knob of the outside door. I was in the upper berth, and had my pistol under my pillow. My partner was in the lower berth, for he had not been well that night, and went to bed earl}-.
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