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~3X 00199
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Either side of this legalized gaming house are stores, selling stationery or clothes or what not, and on the corner you perceive a musing policeman. Little does he heed the stationery or clothes store, and as little the gaming den; for is it not under the operation of this blessed negro reconstruction scheme in the State of Louisiana, as fully legitimate as they ?
Inside
We enter the "El Dorado." Delicious music, really good and fine music, (for your gambler buys the best,) salutes you. There is an . orchestra in one corner, and sweet, siren strains entirce the visitor to little games.
Let us go the rounds.
"High Dice"-
Here is a table where they play "High Die." (MJS note: note no "e" in the name. This is repeated and apparently was the accepted spelling for the word "dice.")
The gambler has an apparatus, in the shape of two funnels joined together at the small end, and open all the way through. In front of him is the traditional green baize.
A sickly looking youth puts down an ivory check, which represents five cents or ten cents (the stake is very smallO>, and the gambler dash-es three dice down through his funnels. Entering the upper end, they come out of the lower as he lifts the instrument.
Now is the young man’s time. He dashes the dice down also, and also lifts the funnel. He has thrown exactly the same number on the dice as the gay gambolier; but it is part of the little game that in such a case the gay, etc., takes the stake.
"Rondo"
The next	fellow, as we coast	the wall, is one that	has	"Rondo,"
a	game played	upon	what resembled	a billiard table, and	the	principle
whereof seems to be that the player, standing at one corner, shall dash sundry small ivory bqlls at a pocket diagonally across the table from him, and then win or lose according as he succeeds in pocketing the pellets or no.
"Rolling Faro"
Then we have a game called "Rolling Faro, too inexplicable a .. mystery to attempt.
"Old Mustang Game"
Then the	"Old	Mustang Game,"	— "Walk up, gentlemen, the Old
Mustang Game,	here	it is, and the	Mustang wins]