Taking Chances

Clarence Louis Cullen

G.W. Dillingham, 1900 - American fiction - 269 pages

Contents

• Introductory Note: 5
• Just Like Finding Money: 24
• Hardluck Wail of an Oldtime Trainer: 42
• Red Donnellys Streak of Luck: 59
• The Game of Running Ringers: 77
• The Man Who Knew All About Touts: 96
• He Coppered His Wifes Hunches: 113
• A Seedy Sports String of Horses: 131
• Story of a Famous Pat Hand: 151
• Cardplaying on Ocean Steamers: 170
• This Dog Knew the Game of Poker: 179
• Windup of a Train Game of Poker: 188
• Queer Pacific Coast Poker: 196
• The Proper Time to Get Cold Feet: 205
• Cato Was Just Bound to Play Poker: 214
• Finish of an Educated Red Man: 225
• The Uncertain Game of Stud Poker: 233
• This Man Won Too Often: 242
• The Nerve of Gamblers at Critical Moments: 251
• The Insidious Game of SqueezeSpindle: 259

Popular passages

Page 183 - He just looked at me out of the tail of his eye, as much as to say, ' I'm going to throw you the first chance I get...

Page 8 - I happened to meet them they had just pulled off a swell hog-killing up in Toronto and had two or three thousand each in their clothes.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Taking Chances; Dillingham's metropolitan library, no.66
• Author: Clarence Louis Cullen
• Publisher: G.W. Dillingham, 1900
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Nov 12, 2007
• Length: 269 pages