"Doubtlessly the Asiatics have been playing it for thousands of years.

Won't you believe me when I tell you I didn't invent it ?" "Then you must have read about it, or seen the Chinks playing it in some of those hop-joints you was always hanging around," was his last word.
But I have a last word.

There is a Japanese murderer here in Folsom--or was, for he was executed last week.

I talked the matter over with him; and the game Adam Strang played, and which I taught Oppenheimer, proved quite similar to the Japanese game.

They are far more alike than is either of them like the Western game..