A Christmas Gamble single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1893... 1893 A Christmas Gamble
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Gambling tale. A professional gambler insures his life and stakes it on a Christmas game of cards. He is about to pay the dues when the kindly owner of the gambling rooms and his victor at cards reveal that the insurance company has gone broke. Light; subject of some interest in the novelty. (PB)

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  • From Detroit Free Press

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  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Australian Journal vol. 29 no. 343 December 1893 Z1048277 1893 periodical issue 1893 pg. 187-188
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