The buckle at their girdlethe mantle on their shouldersthe shirt to their backoften stood the hazard of the die; and hence it not unfrequently happened, that a rusty pourpoint and ragged chaussés were all the covering which the luckless dicers could enumerate, owing, no doubt, "to the extreme rarity and penury of money in their pouches.

"Well, I'm accountable for dealing with that wicked old dicer I thought I sawisn't that it?