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Show A Female Gambler at Dead-wood. Dead-wood. A character which attracts the attention of alt strangers is "Mnie. Mouutacbo," a plump little French lady perhaps forty years of ago, but Bplendidly preserved. She derives her name, which is the onlj one she is known by, from a dainty stripy ol black hair on her upper lip. She deals her own faro hank, and is i popular with (he boys, who treat her ! with marked respect. She has a bright black eye aud a musical voice, ! and there is something attractive abuul her as she looks up with a little ' smite and says: "You will play, M'sieur? 'Tis yust so fair for one aa ! oder." She is said to be very rich and hiis followed her doubtful oalliug for more than fifteen yeara. No one knows her hiotory, which would probably be very romantic if correctly written, but for years she has been identified with the "profession," always alone, always the same polite, smiling liUle woman, always making money. |