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Show - A farmer's boy A IIemaukaei.k from tho east, who Feast, had very recently- taken up his abode among tho fashions and fascinations of a boom western metropolis, was made the victim of many a dubious and doubtful yarn, one of which was to the effect that when gamblers made a very large winning they indulged in-dulged their appetites in an epi-curian epi-curian feast. After tho boy had lived in his new home for sevoral months, and utterly failing to find a more legitimate eicployment, he accepted accep-ted a position as the manipulator of a roulette wheel. His wages for (ho first davs work, $;!, were invested in a stack of faro checks. Like nearly all tender-feet tender-feet in that business, his first plunge w as a singularly fortunate one, and as he had more sand than sense, his gains rolled up until he had ijCil.uo. Ha cashed in. The &1 he invested in a very exhilerating cargo of sour inasli, when he suddenly thought that, in order for him to keep up w ith the proceedings, he must spend the remainder of his fortune in a ban-epiet. ban-epiet. Going to tho restaurants, and wishing to do the grand, and knowing of nothing more superb iu its line he ordered in a voice in which there were many tones of importance, thirty whole dollars worth of ham and eggs. It is unnecessary to slate that he was a MissoursK |