Show Gamb gambling linC in mexico A short distance from the church booths are erected from which proceeds the music of harps and guitars in them the visitors to guadaloupe may gratify any fondness they may have for the ibe great national vice gambling the strange harsh cries of those who have charge of the games as they call out the del details aus of stakes to be offered and the result of each deal and play are positively repulsive the group of players in each booth comprises men women and even children of every class in about the proportion in v which the several classes exist in the country there are small stakes and large ones and the variety of games by which the appeal to chance is mode made seems endless the ph players tyers chat and laugh as they play and though they watch vatch the games very closely and it if their money last splay sometimes sometime sall ill night long there is none of that feverish or excited look about them which is noticeable in the faces of gamblers e elsewhere Iw where it is evident I 1 that the mexicans gamble in entirely for the sport there is in gambling they win or lose with the same happy look the same gay laugh american maga alga kinei |