r cost George just $50,000. He retaliated, however,
for he had not been released two weeks until he beat one of the
General's paymasters out of $19,000. It was on the Red River. I
see he has settled down and quit sporting, and I am glad of it.
Had he never seen a faro bank he would have been an immensely
wealthy man thirty years ago. One night before the war I saw him
lose $13,000 at one sitting. He left the table without enough
money with which to buy a cup of coffee."--_The Cincinnati
Enquirer_.

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