DICE OF DEATH
Toots Champ, a 60-y.ear-old negro of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, squatted on his haunches amid his .companions and talked, to a pair of .'"galloping dominoes,” or dice. •Hi© .rattled the dice, blew gently, and addressed them:
•'T never did fnake a lour, and % exjpect if. I did 1 should drop dead.” ‘ Jfe rolled them, and the longed-for humbers t urned .up. "Toots reached for the stake arid dropped' dead.. ' ’
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17527, 23 July 1931, Page 5
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70DICE OF DEATH Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17527, 23 July 1931, Page 5
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