While the Colonel got breakfast the Boy dashed round to the Gold Nugget, found Si McGinty playing craps, and would have brought him back in triumph to breakfastbut no, he would "wait down yonder below the Gold Nugget, and don't you say nothin' yit about where we're goin', or we'll have the hull town at our heels.

There is this to be said even for the pride his grandfather had taught him, that it had always hald him above low indulgences; and though he had dallied with kings, queens, and knaves through all the mazes of Faro, Rondeau, and Craps, he had done it loftily; but now he maintained a peaceful estrangement from all.

Tump Pack, the white captain, and the negro engineer began a game of craps in the negro cabin.

She don' shoot craps, nor boot- laig, nor" He fell to coughing.

drawing lots; sortilegy^, sortition^; sortes^, sortes Virgilianae^; rouge et noir [Fr.], hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or tails cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf.

Maybe craps way short; the rills Couldn't turn the silent mills; But the light's behind the hills, Here's hopin'!

Penn explained craps and convinced Arthur to try his luck.

Oliver studied craps.

He approached the front craps table and stood with his arms hanging down and his weight evenly balanced.

He moved to a place at the ten dollar craps table.

He went back to craps and began betting larger amounts.

Overhead lights illuminated a single craps table, a bright mahogany raft floating in the darkness.

This was the ancient and terribly fascinating game of dice, popularly known as "craps."

"How's craps, Country?" "Shut up, Bart!

" "What's become of Suliman?" "He's shooting craps with two other young villains close to where you left him last night.

Money is scarce now for summer time and craps laid by.

Dey said 'Hoddy,' en Mars Dugal' ax 'im ter hab a seegyar; en atter dey run on awhile 'bout de craps en de weather, Mars Dugal' ax 'im, sorter keerless, like ez ef he des thought of it, "'How you like de nigger I sole you las' spring?' "Henry's marster shuck his head en knock de ashes off'n his seegyar.

"So Solomon up en tol' 'im 'bout de craps, en 'bout de hosses en de mules, en 'bout de cows en de hawgs.

But dat fall de craps wuz monst'us big, so Mars Dugal' say de Lawd had temper' de win' ter de sho'n ram, en make up ter

The old negro tells the following grave yard story: "One dark, drizzly night, de niggers wuz out in de woods shootin' craps.

He could hold the dice longer than any man within the San Juan memory, which, in view of the fact that craps is to San Juan what bridge is to Boston, is saying a great deal.

Chickens, sheeps, hogs, sweet pertatersall de craps is fine dis year; All we needs is a committee foh to tote de goodies here.

Yes, every night this enduring winter will see me a-s'arching the Scriptur'; and what I can't read I can ricollect; and come August, when the craps is laid by and the funeral occasions sets in, I will be ready for 'em.

He was an amusing cross between a tricky little Paris gamin and a real child, and he hit off the characteristics of the various writers with as keen a touch of actuality as he could put into his stories of how many centimes he had won that morning at 'craps' from his friend Pierre.

Often she stopped in her walks to watch them, dodging wagons and automobiles; throwing stones, tossing balls, fighting, and shooting craps; stealing apples from push-carts, getting arrested and being dragged through the farce of a trial at law for the crime of playing.