h a hurry to
get out his money that he often cuts or tears his clothes. He
feels like he is going to steal the money from a blind man, but he
does not care. He will win it, and say nothing about how he did
it. After they have put up their money and turned the card, they
see that the mark was put there for a purpose. Then they are mad,
because they are beat at their own game. They begin to kick, and
want their money back, but they would not have thought of such a
thing had they won the money from a blind man, for they did think
he must be nearly blind, or he could have seen the mark on the
winning card. They expected to rob a blind man, and got left. I
never had any sympathy for them, and I would fight before I would
give them back one cent. It is a good lesson for a dishonest man
to be caught by some trick, and I always did like to teach it. I
have had the right card turned on me for big money by suckers, but
it was an accident, for they were so much excited that they did
not get the card they were after. I have also given a big hand in
poker to a sucker, and had him to knock the ginger out of me, but
this would make me more careful in the future. I've seen suckers
win a small amount, and then run all over the boat, telling how
they downed the gambler; but they were almost sure to come back
and lose much more than they had won.

I have often given a sucker back his money, and I have seen them
lose it with my partner, or at some other game on the same boat.
I have won hundreds of thousands from thieves who were making tracks
for some other country to keep out of jail and to spend their ill-
gotten gains. I enjoyed beating a man that was loaded down with
stolen money more than any one else. I always felt as if it was
my duty to try and keep the money in our own country.

Young men and boys have often stood around the table and bothered
me to bet. I would tell them to go away, that I did not gamble
with boys. That would make some of the smart Alecks mad, and they
would make a great deal of noise. So, when I was about to close
up, I would take in the young chap. He would walk away with a good
lesson. But when I had to win money from a boy to keep him quiet,
I would always go to him and return the money, after giving him a
good talking to.

I meet good business men very often now that take me by the hand
and remind me of when I won some money from them when they were
boys, and returned it with a good l