Show A GAMBLERS superstitions he smokes good cigars when and poor ones when winning there is a well known sport whose face is a standing portrait in the gallery of chestnut street who is particularly heralded among his brethren of chance by the brands of cigars he smokes says the philadelphia inquirer if he wins heavily on the track all his friends know it by the terrific smell of the vile tobacco in his smokers if he is a loser they are aware of it by the delicate perfume of the curling smoke of the wrea of a havana what induces the follower jbf the goddess of chance to thus cont denote his financial con never could be learned until a week ago when the quality of his cigar was so execrable as to call forth a protest from his comrades and then he said its my only superstition boys if I 1 win and should smoke a good cigar lucid go back on me so hard the next day pd be in the poorhouse poor house in a week but if I 1 am a loser never very heavy understand and light two or three conchas dye see ill call the turn on bad luck when im playing in great form when I 1 draw on cigars made from cabbages its my espen ance that bad cigars and good luck are friends and IIa vanas travel in the wake of the losing sport |