Introduction Card-Playing Terminology Faro Cockfighting Horse Racing-The English Classics Hazard Gambling Clothes Officers of the Gaming Establishment Gambling and Animal Cruelty Card Games in the Novels of Jane Austen Bare-Knuckle Boxing Types of Playing-Card Deck Whist Horace Walpole on Gambling Loaded Dice Consequences of High Gaming Gambling Ladies The Pernicious Effects of Gaming Loo Horse Racing Colours A Lady Gamer Private Gaming Clubs Samuel Johnson on Gambling Jack Broughton's Rules of Boxing Beau Brummell Melancholy Effects of Play Blacklegs Catastrophic Gambling Losses Piquet Weird Wagers Preparing a Horse to Race Gaming: The Shame of the Nation Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire Piping, or Cheating at Cards John Wesley on Gambling Cassino Horse Racing Rules White's Unusual Betting Book The Sandwich Baccarat London's Gaming Hells The State Lottery The Female Gambler Quadrille Creatures of God Abused Types of Jockey Bull- and Bear-Baiting On Sharpers Vingt-Un A Gaming Master Abominable Diversion Commerce The Vice of Dice Barbarity to God's Dumb Creations Lord Kennedy of Cassilis List of Illustrations Index.