The latter, however, gave no indication that they were in the least degree disappointed.

Of course, as a rule they play after their own fashion, having their own games and methods.

Minister Wu, of Washington, when asked recently if he liked our American games, replied that he did not understand any of them.

No doubt this is true of the majority of Chinamen in the United States.

In thinking of the Chinese and gambling one always recalls Bret Harte's "Plain Language From Truthful James of Table Mountain," popularly known as "The Heathen Chinee," one of the best humorous poems in the English language.