We shall proceed regularly upon college
principles, old fellow: first, we will visit the Little Go in
King-street, and then drop into the Great Go, alias Watiers, in
Piccadilly; after which we can sup in Crockford's pandemonium among
parliamentary pigeons, unfledged
5 A tats man, a proficient with the bones, one who knows
every chance upon the dice.
6 A decoy, who seduces the young or inexperienced to the
gaming table, and receives a per centage upon their losses.
~212~~ ensigns of the guards, broken down titled legs, and ci-devant
bankers, fishmongers, and lightermen; and here comes the very fellow
to introduce us--an old college chum, Charles Rattle, who was expelled
Brazennose for smuggling, and who has since been pretty well plucked by
merciless Greek banditti and Newmarket jockeys, but who bears his losses
with the temper of a philosopher, and still pursues the destructive vice
with all the infatuation of the most ardent devotee." "How d'ye do,
old fellows?--how d'ye do? Who would have thought to have met the
philosopher (pointing to me) at such a place as this, among the impures
of both sexes, legs and leg-ees? Come to sport a little blunt with the
table or the traders, hey! Heartly? Always suspected you was no puritan,
although you wear such a sentimental visage.
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