Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1843, BY JONATHAN H. GREEN, In the Clerk's Office for the District Court of Ohio. STEREOTYPED AT THE WHITE, LEWIS, AND POTTER, Printers, Spring Lane. CONTENTS. Preface by the Reviser, A Card Party, Page. 7 Deceptions used in the Game of All Fours, Deceptions in the Game of Whist, True Picture of the Gambler's Destiny,. Dialogue between a Judge and a Gambler, Thermometer of the different Stages of a Gambling Life, PREFACE BY THE REVISER. 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. As may well be supposed, the author felt some delicacy in thus placing himself before the world; but, sustained by the consciousness that his highest aim was to do good, he was willing to make the experiment, hoping that any mortification of feeling, or even personal danger, which it might subject him to, would be more than counterbalanced by the countenance and sympathies of the friends of morality and good order, generally. After having separated himself (and he trusts in God, forever) from that class of persons called gamblers, the ordinary maxims of prudence would probably have dictated to him to allude as seldom and as sparingly as possible to his former course of life. But believing, as he did, that by bringing to light, as he had it in his power to do, the arts and machinations of gamblers, and the miseries of that kind of life, he might render a great and lasting service to others, he did not feel as if motives of delicacy in regard to himself should deter him from making the attempt. He has felt the more encouraged to embark in this undertaking, from the wonderful success that has attended a similar course in connection with the temperance reformation. Reflecting on the wellknown fact, that the simple narratives of reformed inebriates have, in general, a far more powerful and extensive influence than the most polished and eloquent discourses of others, it occurred to him, that the adoption of a like course, in reference to the formidable vice of gambling, might be |