ess of gaming the player stakes everything after losing his
money--his watch, his rings, his clothing; and some have staked their
EARS, and others their very LIVES--instances of all which will be
related in the sequel.

Not very long ago a publican, who lost all his money, staked his
public-house, lost it, and had to 'clear out.' The man who won it is
alive and flourishing.

'The debt of honour must be paid: 'these are the terrible words that
haunt the gamester as he wakes (if he has slept) on the morning after
the night of horrors: these are the furies that take him in hand, and
drag him to torture, laughing the while. . . .

What a 'sensation' it must be to lose one's ALL! A man, intoxicated
with his gains, left one gaming house and entered another. As soon as he
entered he exclaimed, 'Well, I am filled, my pockets are full of gold,
and here goes, ODDS OR EVEN?' 'Odds,' cried a player. It was ODDS, and
the fortunate winner pocketed the enormous sum just boasted of by the
other.

On the other hand, sudden prosperity has deranged more heads and killed
more people than reverses and grief; either because it takes a longer
time to get convinced of utter ruin than great good fortune, or because
the instinct of self-preservation compels us to seek, in adversity, for
resources to mitigate despair; whereas, in the assault of excessive joy,
the soul's spring is distended and broken when it is suddenly compressed
by too many thoughts and too many sensations. Sophocles, Diagoras,
Philippides, died of joy. Another Greek expired at the sight of the
three crowns won by his three sons at the Olympic games.

Many fine intellects among players have been brutified by loses; others,
in greater number, have been so by their winnings. Some in the course of
their prosperity perish from idleness, get deranged, and ruin themselves
after ruining others. An instance is mentioned of an officer who won
so enormously that he actually lost his senses in counting his gains.
Astonished at himself, he thought he was no longer an ordinary mortal;
and required his valets to do him extraordinary honours, flinging
handfuls of gold to them. The same night, however, he returned to the
gaming house, and recovered from his madness when he had lost not only
all his gains, but even the value of an appointment which he held.

UNFORTUNATE WINNING.

M. G--me was a most estimable man, combining in himself the best
qualities of both heart and head. He was go