tter than ever, and
he wanted to fight. I told him I was sickly and could not fight;
so he left me to find my partner, to buy his old woman back again.
I never refused to sell a nigger I had won, if any one would give
me anything near the value; and I never had any use for old nigger
women.

THE GAMBLER DISGUISED.

I started out one night on the _Crystal Palace_. This boat left
New Orleans about 6 o'clock in the evening. After supper I opened
monte. There were some rough customers from Greenville, and I knew
if they lost their money there would be the devil to pay; but I
took the chances, and caught some of them for a few hundred dollars,
and there were some two or three of the passengers who also lost.
After the Greenville killers had lost their money they commenced to
fill up, and I knew there would be war soon. I closed up, slipped
around and got on another suit of clothes, put on my plug hat and
gold glasses. Then I gave my valise to the porter and told him to
have it ready to go off at Donaldsonville. I walked out in the
cabin; they were all standing by the bar holding a consultation
how they could get the money back. One said: "The first time the
boat stops he will get off." "Well, if he does he is a good one,
for I will fill his hide full of lead if he tries that," says
another. The boat blew her whistle to land, and you ought to have
seen them break for the lower deck, gun in hand. I walked out
through the cabin with my plug hat, white necktie, and gold glasses.
You would have bet $500 I was a preacher. You ought to have seen
those fellows make room for me to pass by. My partner remained on
board, as they were not on to him. I got a boat soon after and
went to Baton Rouge, where my partner was waiting for me. He said
they raised the d---l after I got off.

MARRIED HIS MONEY.

I was on board the steamer _H. R. W. Hill_ going up the river and
had got my work in, and what money I had accumulated was at poker.
We landed at Natchez, and most all that were playing in the game
got off. After supper I was sitting on the guards smoking, when
a man came up and commenced conversation about gambling. He said:
"I love to gamble, but my wife is bitterly opposed to it. I did
want to play in that game to-day, but I dare not, as I have my
family on board; so if you play to-night, I want to sit in." "Well,
I guess that we may make up a game after it gets later," I said.
About two hours after supper