Identifier: outing48newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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bling house, saloon anddance hall, however, are populous andprofitable business enterprises and theydot the streets gay and frequent. Be-cause public gambling is licensed by lawin Nevada, these mining camps have amore vivid streak of frontier conditionsthan can be found anywhere else. Thetanned and dusty men in boots, leggingsand corduroys who throng the streets of But in front of a faro table a brace ofgrizzled prospectors are piking alongwith fifty-cent chips. They are almostcleaned out, and to the average town-bredman, whose chief worry is lest he lose hisjob, their situation would seem perilous andeven hair-raising. For they have come infrom the desert for a whirl, and whentheir modest stakes are gone, they will bewithout a dollar in the world. They areaware of this fact, but it does not disturbthem. They have been broke manytimes, and they expect to go broke manytimes more. They were prudent enoughto buy a little store of bacon, beans andflour before they embarked on this ruinous
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The Builders 269 evening, and in the morning they will packtheir burros and trail off into the moun-tains to live another month or two withoutseeing any other human being until theyshall come back to town for another grub-stake. And if they cant raise the cashfor the next grubstake? Well, that time isfar distant, and its a poor kind of a manthat will worry when he has enough to eatfor a month ahead. So they dutifully and cheerfully gobroke, and stroll over to watch a crowdthat presses round a roulette table. Threeyoung men in well-worn khaki are playingwith stacks of twenty-dollar gold pieces inlieu of chips. Their speech is that of thecampus and the club of the Eastern sea-board, and it is likely that they,learned therudiments of this pastime in a metropolitanpalace of art presided over by one RichardCanfield. They stake twenty dollars on anumber, and one of them wins a thousanddollars with two turns of the wheel. Nowthere is a sudden buzz of talk and the wordis passed: Here comes Ja

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