TAKING CHANCES
by Clarence Louis Cullen
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cullen, Clarence Louis, -1922
- Title
- Taking Chances
- Credits
- Produced by Roger Frank, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
- Subject
- Poker -- Fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 37477
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37477
- Release Date
- September 19, 2011
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
- 4.THIS WIRETAPPER WAS COLOR-BLIND.
- 5."WHOOPING" A RACE-HORSE UNDER THE WIRE.
- 6.JUST LIKE FINDING MONEY.
- 7.THIS SON OF FONSO WAS OF NO ACCOUNT.
- 8.HARD-LUCK WAIL OF AN OLD-TIME TRAINER.
- 9.STORY OF AN "ALMOST" COMBINATION.
- 10."RED" DONNELLY'S STREAK OF LUCK.
- 11.AND "RED BEAK JIM" TOOK THE TIP.
- 12.THE GAME OF RUNNING "RINGERS."
- 13.EXPERIENCES OF A VERDANT BOOKMAKER.
- 14.THE MAN WHO KNEW ALL ABOUT TOUTS.
- 15.A "COPPER-LINED CINCH" THAT DID GO THROUGH.
- 16.HE "COPPERED" HIS WIFE'S "HUNCHES."
- 17.A RACE HORSE THAT PAID A CHURCH DEBT.
- 18.A SEEDY SPORT'S STRING OF HORSES.
- 19.THIS TELEGRAM WAS SIGNED JUST "BUB."
- 20.STORY OF A FAMOUS PAT HAND.
- 21.GREAT LUCK AT AN INOPPORTUNE TIME.
- 22.CARD-PLAYING ON OCEAN STEAMERS.
- 23.THIS DOG KNEW THE GAME OF POKER.
- 24.WIND-UP OF A TRAIN GAME OF POKER.
- 25.QUEER PACIFIC COAST POKER.
- 26.THE PROPER TIME TO GET "COLD FEET."
- 27.CATO WAS JUST BOUND TO PLAY POKER.
- 28.FINISH OF AN EDUCATED RED MAN.
- 29.THE UNCERTAIN GAME OF STUD POKER.
- 30.THIS MAN WON TOO OFTEN.
- 31.THE NERVE OF GAMBLERS AT CRITICAL MOMENTS.
- 32.THE INSIDIOUS GAME OF SQUEEZE-SPINDLE. — Nine Splendid Novels by WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE — THE PIRATE OF PANAMA — THE VISION SPLENDID — CROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHT — BRAND BLOTTERS — "MAVERICKS" — A TEXAS RANGER — WYOMING — RIDGWAY OF MONTANA — BUCKY O'CONNOR — THREE SPLENDID BOOKS BY ALFRED HENRY LEWIS — FARO NELL AND HER FRIENDS — THE APACHES OF NEW YORK — THE STORY OF PAUL JONES — Books by Edward Marshall — BAT—An Idyl of New York — THE MIDDLE WALL — BOOKS NOVELIZED FROM GREAT PLAYS — THE MASTER OF THE HOUSE — THE WRITING ON THE WALL — THE OLD FLUTE PLAYER — THE FAMILY — THE SPENDTHRIFT — IN OLD KENTUCKY — Transcriber's Notes:
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