Social life of the Chinese : with some account of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions, with special but not exclusive reference to Fuhchau . ere the string will pointafter the horizontal piece to which it is attached having beenmade to revolve, stops. The one who wishes to stake some cash upon a certain spot,places the amount of hiswager on the top of theperpendicular standard,and specifies the partic-ular division he betsu ton, or he puts the cashupon that particulardivision, and then givesthe horizontal piece awhirl around with great-er or less veloci
Social life of the Chinese : with some account of their religious, governmental, educational and business customs and opinions, with special but not exclusive reference to Fuhchau . ere the string will pointafter the horizontal piece to which it is attached having beenmade to revolve, stops. The one who wishes to stake some cash upon a certain spot,places the amount of hiswager on the top of theperpendicular standard,and specifies the partic-ular division he betsu ton, or he puts the cashupon that particulardivision, and then givesthe horizontal piece awhirl around with great-er or less velocity, as hepleases. If the threadstops, pointing down tothe particular divisionhe selected, he has won,and the head gambler must pay him eight or sixteen times asmuch as he ventured, according as the face of the board is di-vided into eight or sixteen parts. If the thread stops overany other space than the one he bet upon, he loses his he should bet upon any particular dividing line on the faceof the board, and the string should, when its movementsceased, point directly down toward that line, he would be en-titled to receive twice as many cash from the head gambler as. GAMBLING WITH A REVOLVING POINTER. POPULAR AND EXCITING KIND OF LOTTERY. 287 he would have been entitled to receive had he bet with suc-cess upon any particular space. The head gambler often hasa quantity of candies or sweetmeats with which to pay in partor wholly his forfeits, provided those who are successful intheir ventures are willing to accept of such a currency; ifnot, he must pay them in cash. Many boys spend the most of their time in hawking aboutthe streets various kinds of sweetmeats or preserved fruits,not so much for the purpose of selling them for money as forallowing them to be gambled for. Those who wish to pro-cure them usually try their fortune at gambling for them in aparticular way. The lad who carries the sweetmeats carriesalso with him a bamboo tube, six or eight inches long, andtwo o
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