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Forty Years a Gambler 18: I began [...] to play the bank higher than a cat’s back, as the old keno game was a great producer.at higher than a cat’s back, adj.
Forty Years a Gambler 18: I began [...] to play the bank higher than a cat’s back, as the old keno game was a great producer. Forty Years a Gambler 178: You have acted the wet dog about this, and I will not give you a cent of your money.at act the wet dog, v.
Forty Years a Gambler 141: He was a knowing sort of a chap; perhaps best described as a ‘smart aleck’.at smart aleck, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 21: We had it hot and heavy. I let the buck see my hand until it came to the draw, and then I shifted the hand.at hot and heavy, phr.
Forty Years a Gambler 154: Why, that’s Judge so-and-so.at so-and-so, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 194: I knocked around for about half an hour [...] and resolved to try my luck again.at knock around, v.
Forty Years a Gambler 67: He got mad as a wet hen, and told me he had just as much money as I had.at ...a wet hen under mad as..., adj.
Forty Years a Gambler 100: One of the planters bet me the wine that he could turn the ticket with the baby.at baby, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 91: I was surprised to see you back-capping my game, for I could see you were a sporting man.at backcap, v.
Forty Years a Gambler 19: I beat him out of five lots.at beat (someone) out of (v.) under beat, v.
Forty Years a Gambler 20: The Red Man was a good poker player, and was always looking for the best of it.at best (of it), n.
Forty Years a Gambler 38: I pulled out old ‘Betsey Jane,’ one of the best tarantula pistols in the Southern county.at betsy, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 138: While this was going on the lady was giving her better half a piece of her mind.at better half, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 28: We had won some big money and were about to quit.at big, adj.
Forty Years a Gambler 147: I began to lay them out as fast as I could with the billy.at billy, n.4
Forty Years a Gambler 143: ‘How is the best way to get some of that money?’ [...] ‘I’ll play monte for you; perhaps he’ll bite at that.’.at bite, v.
Forty Years a Gambler 245: They were often in the bar-room after the bloody, blarsted wine.at blasted, adj.1
Forty Years a Gambler 37: He [...] did not know much about beating a sucker out of his money. I had to teach him how to handle the blokes.at bloke, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 149: Everything looks blue; I’ve got no partner, and I don’t think there is a dollar in sight.at blue, adj.1
Forty Years a Gambler 238: The fellow looked a little blue.at blue, adj.1
Forty Years a Gambler 284: Requesting that they tell the kicker he was in the same boat with the gambler, as he would be fined just as much.at row in the (same) boat (v.) under boat, n.1
Forty Years a Gambler 55: We divided the boodle that he had brought with him.at boodle, n.1
Forty Years a Gambler 11: I told my story to the boss, and he took sides with me.at boss, n.2
Forty Years a Gambler 19: Then I commenced to think about getting out of that hot box.at hot box, n.1
Forty Years a Gambler 264: I forgot all about being sleepy while I was working up the Jew boys.at Jew boy, n.
Forty Years a Gambler 290: Why, he’s got more brass than there is in twenty brass bands.at brass, n.1
Forty Years a Gambler 16: I [...] then shipped for Cincinnati, where I remained until I was very near broke.at broke, adj.1
Forty Years a Gambler 112: The fellow was all broke up, but he gave me $100 in gold.at broke up, adj.
Forty Years a Gambler 20: [of a Native American] One of the old bucks soon began to cheat.at buck, n.1
Forty Years a Gambler 247: I tried to show the other Johnnie Bulls how the lad lost his gun.at John Bull, n.1
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