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TALK
OF
UNCLE GEORGE TO HIS NEPHEW
ABOUT
DRAW POKER.
CONTAINING
VALUABLE SUGGESTIONS IN CONNECTION WITH THIS
GREAT AMERICAN GAME.
ALSO,
INSTRUCTION AND DIRECTIONS TO CLUBS AND SOCIAL
CARD PARTIES, WHOSE MEMBERS PLAY ONLY FOR
RECREATION AND PASTIME,
WITH
TIMELY WARNINGS TO YOUNG PLAYERS.
ILLUSTRATED.
NEW YORK:
DICK & FITZGERALD, PUBLISHERS.
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COPYRIGHT, 1883, BY
DICK & FITZGERALD.
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PREFACE.
This pamphlet is issued for the purpose of inducingthose who engage in this Great American Gameof “Draw Poker,” to play only for amusement andpastime; and to expose those in our clubs and socialcard parties who are tricky, or disposed to cheat.Also to show to the American youth the dangersthat beset their path when playing this fascinatinggame.
While we have treatises on this subject, by Blackbridge,“American Hoyle,” “Schenck,” and others,—allof whom teach the game, with the rules and lawsthat govern it,—it has been left for “Uncle George,”in a familiar, conversational manner, to “lay open”and expose this game as it is too often played—withits “lights and shadows,” its bright parts, and “waysthat are dark.”
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UNCLE GEORGE
ON
DRAW POKER.
“Rather late, my boy, when I heard yourfootsteps upon the stairs last evening,”said Uncle George to his nephew, while sittingat the breakfast-table on the morning of the22d of February last.
“Yes, dear uncle, I acknowledge the corn.‘I can not tell a lie,’ you know, on this the anniversaryof the birth of our Great UncleGeorge, the Father of his Country, and especiallywhile his portrait on the wall is nowlooking down upon me. The fact is, I acceptedan invitation to dine with