ney openly. The checks are white, red,
blue, and purple. The white checks are one dollar each, the red five
dollars, the blue twenty-five and the purple one hundred dollars.

"Having provided himself with the number of checks (which in size
resemble an old-fashioned cent), he lays down any amount to suit his
fancy on any one card upon the table--one of the thirteen described.
Suppose the deal is about to begin. He puts $100 in checks on the ace.
The dealer throws off the cards till finally an ace appears. If it be
the third, fifth, seventh, etc., card the player wins, and the dealer
pays him $100 in checks--the 'bank's' loss. If, however, it were the
second, fourth, sixth, etc., card the dealer takes the checks and the
bank is $100 winner. Should a player desire to bet on a card to lose, he
expresses this intention by putting a 'copper' in his checks, and then if
the card is thrown off from the pack by the dealer as a losing card the
player wins. This is practically all there is in faro.

"It should be remembered that the losing cards fall on one pile and the
winning cards on another. When only four cards remain in the box there
is generally lively betting as to how the three under cards will come out
in precise order, the top one being visible. In this instance alone the
player can treble his stake if fortunate in his prediction. This
evolution is a 'call.'

"A tally board is kept, showing what cards remain in the box after each
turn. This provision is to guard the player. Of course four of each
kind are thrown from the box--four aces, etc.

"Some one will inquire how does the bank make it pay while taking such
even chances? In this way. If two of a kind should come out in one
'turn,' as, for instance, two aces, half of the money bet on the ace,
either to win or lose, goes to the bank. This is known as a 'split.
They are very frequent, and large sums pass to the dealer through this
channel. That is where the bank makes the money.

"Chamberlain says that if men were to study and labor ten thousand years
they could never beat the bank, or rather the game. It is something
which no one understands. When only one of a kind remains in the box, as
an ace, for instance, to bet then that the card will come to win or to
lose is just like throwing up a copper and awaiting the result, head or
tail. So it will be seen that the bank is in a position where it has
everything to risk.

"The playing is conducted