A descriptive catalogue of the Chinese Collection now exhibiting at St. George's Place, Hyde Park Corner, London : with condensed accounts of the genius, government, history, literature, agriculture, arts, trade, manners, customs and social life of the people of the celestial empire (1842)
Langdon, William B · London : Printed for the proprietor, and to be obtained only at the Chinese Collection · leaf 42
more respectable of thepeople are free from this taint. They have a saying, that gambling isallied to robbery. Dominoes, cards, dice, and chess, are favouritegames. The vendors of fruit often gamble with purchasers in the fol-lowing manner :—A boy wishes a half dozen oranges. The fruit andhalf the… … 33 in like manner sweeps the stakes, and the disappointed gamester maywhistle for oranges, or try his fortune elsewhere. Quails are trained forfighting, and even a species of cricket. Two of these insects are placedin a bowl together, and irritated till they tear each other in pieces. Thegamesters…
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