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CHAPTER IX. page 3

`I think,' says a recent writer,[87] `of all the street-boys in
the world, those of New York are the most precocious. I have
seen a shoe-black, about three feet high, walk up to the
table or `Bank,' as it is generally called, and stake his money
(five cents) with the air of a young spendthrift to whom "money
is no object." '

[87] `St James's Magazine,' Sept., 1867.

The chief gambling houses of New York were established by men who
are American celebrities, and among these the most prominent have
been Pat Hern and John Morrissey.

PAT HERN.

Some years ago this celebrated Irishman kept up a splendid
establishment in Broadway, near Hauston Street. At that time his
house was the centre of attraction towards which `all the world'
gravitated, and did the thing right grandly--combining the
Apicius with the Beau Nash or Brummell.

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