THE GAMBLER.

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 7

THE GAMBLER.

.;• -fr What's a gambler, can you tell me P— You, called "educated men."— I've been puzzled, as a layman, Tell me with your voice or pen? I have heard he's one whose riches Have, been got by "luck" or '"chance"; Ifc may be that anti-gamblers j But exist m "old romance." * If you bet one hundred sovereigns Tha.t "Solution" wins the Cup, "That's a gamble," howl the clergy— "Just as bad as 'tossing up.' " But if you, one hundred sovereigns. ' Bet I'll die before next year, . "That's insurance," says the parson— ' Then my brain gets "out of geslr/' I If I could define a gambler, Aud could say, "Thou art the man," ] I may find "the clergy gamble" Far more than the artisan. . I If, for land, they pay one hundred Guineas, and they sell for four, Are not three of that their "increase" Won, hot earned, but gambled for? If I win ten years' "free interest" Afc Starr-Bowket's weekly "draw," Is such interest earned or gambled? Conscience whispers, "Gambled for." Then, again, I'm often puzzled When the Stock Exchange I view; There, by simply changing paper, Men can win a pound or two. But the truth seems— Labor only Can produce all food and clothes ; Gamblers, though, m fur and, velvet, Reap the crop which Labor sows. Stand aside, then, all you gamblers, . Who take wealth you do not earn; And, although you stifle conscience, Some fine day, m hell you'll burn. -J. HARRADINE. Leichhardt..