GAMES OF CHANCE.

Waikato Times, Issue 837, 30 October 1877, Page 3

GAMES OF CHANCE.

to call' attention to what to become an intolerable . nuisance. We are all ipfius familiar with, the Aunt Sally man of our boyhoods days, and the rueful feelings experienced when contemplating pur shoemakers stock of coppers after, the vain endeavours to. hit the pipe which seemed so prominent, a mark but which somelvow, e y & fy& our »»ost careful aim. ; But; lately the apparently trifling matter has' grown to larger proportions and I have more than once noticed the operations of gentlemen' °L a m 9 re pretentious kidney, who taking 'possession of some conspicuous spot on a race, pourse, agricultural, show .or some other assembly prpclaim ; with voice' and counter nance brazen, certain games Mr those who will only go in'*as l?Z , as W4 m high asyou ;l*e.. ■ -Without laying to being particularly straighfcWed, I 'W certainly tye^Dinjon

that if a landlords's license is to be imperilled by permitting 3uch games as ' Yankee Grab' and if the delicate swindles smilingly perpetrated by bright-eyed charmers atjbazaars 'for charitable purposes' are to be put down, it seems somewhat anomalous that a set of lazy vagabonds who shirk; honest labour by knocking about the country; wheedling the simple of a few hard earned shillings, are to go unhindered. Of course as soon -as the speculator referred to commences ' business' the inevitable country yokel appears, who speculates a few shillings and wins to use'a familiar expression ' hand over fist' and great no doubt is the mirth of the two confederates, for such of course they are, when dividing the proceeds of their little , games. Seriously sir I have myself seen working men, decieved by the apparently fair appearance of the swindle, |lose more I well knew than they could afford and by their foolishness (highly blameable, no doubt) turn what should have been a day of pleasure into one of selfreproach and regret.—l am <fec, Lynx.