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Show Lack In a Hunchback. "I will lot you rub my hump with your gold if you give me a franc," said a hump-bucked hump-bucked girl to me one night in tho gambling saloon at Monte Carlo, I looked at her somewhat some-what astonished at tho remark, but she seemed so much in earnest and so desirous of the small piece of money that I gave it to her and rubbed her hump for luckv put the money on 14 and lost. It was the strangest piece of tipping that I over encountered in all my European travels, yet there aro three or four humpbacks who are habitues of the gambling saloon at Monte Carlo, and who . make a living by lotting the superstitious rub their lucky hump with money. I remember an experience once in America of the same kind, but it was not for a tip 1 that tho hump was rubbed. A friend once told me to rub the hump of a hunchback n itb money, uot leiinig limi .s-f you do it, and it svas good hii it '.vaa iueu week und I 'thought I would try ii,; so, slipping up behind be-hind a lUtlo hunchback who was going through the corridor of a prominent hotel iu YVabiii;:: on, t pretend-.-i to be taking off my Cfi.it, and, h::viii'j money in my hand, acci-dently, acci-dently, us it were., let tliac hand hit the hunbuack and t!;ii3 rub the money on the lucky lu.;:p. lint, cln.-.! tho m;ui turned I around and I hnd to apoligize for thus seemingly seem-ingly a-sa::lling him. Of courac I -::-x then that no luck would come from the contact of tho money with I the hump an 1 so did not put any on the races and perhaps saved by it. But at Monte , Carlo it seeuL3 to be reverwd. for yo:i, wnh the knowledge of the unfortunate, rub yuur j money up against them, und very Oil. ii. 1.1 least they tell me so, tho person wins. I'ui is l 1 Cjjr,,Cfluxier-Journal. |