All Eccentric Gambler.
Every one has beard of "La Dame aux Cam lias," of course "L'Homme au Canielia " is the heading a French paper ifives to a sketch of one of the many original figures to be seen on the Parisian boulevard. Though invariably clad in the shabbiest attire — for excellent reasons- the individual in question is never without a magnificent white camel ia at his butt on -hole. A year or two ago be had, it seems, a rare run of luck at the gr en table, and with eccentric prudence he determined to insure, in the season of his prosperity, that whatever deprivations the turn of fortune's wheel might bring with it, he should neve*' want for his favourite flower. He a«ked hit fleurkte one day, accordingly, what sum t*he would take to supply him with a white camelia every day for the rest of his life. The amount fixed upon, a very considerate one, as may be supposed, was paid on tho spot; and now the ruined gamester struts daily along the a*p!mlte. rejoicing in the possession of a camelia worth rather more than the coat it adorns.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 91, 28 February 1885, Page 5
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191All Eccentric Gambler. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 91, 28 February 1885, Page 5
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