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February 7, 1798
The Kentucky Gazette
Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky
What is this article about?
A young gambler's virtuous valet reforms him by placing a large black hog in their chamber, causing a frightful encounter that leads to the gambler's fall down the stairs and eventual conversion from vice.
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THE GAMESTER.
In the days of yore, a certain young gentleman had become a notorious inamorato to the billiard and card table.
All his hopes and enjoyments were concentred in a kind of amusement,
in which, as an adept, he had no compeer. In the wise and fortunate arrangement of things, the compagnon de chambre of the gambler was a paragon of virtue. His celebrity for regularity and every species of vice, had pervaded the city and ruinous tendency of such a deluded youth of the great impropriety. To effect this, the good compagnon de chambre was conscious that ordinary means were totally inadequate to his reformation unless some method were soon adopted, his destruction would inevitably follow. He therefore contrived one night, when the gambler was gone to pay his devoirs to the billiard table to get a monstrous great black hog into their chamber. The morning began to dawn as he returned. All was hushed as the foot of night. He was beginning to open the door, when, to his unutterable astonishment, he was saluted with a grunt. Before the door was half open, his Pandemonian majesty, as, from his shape, colour, and language, as our hero took him to be, rushed out—broke down the door with a horrid crush—took up the gambler with irresistible force—disgorged an impetuous torrent of the salutary dialect—and sprang forward with renovated vigour, till he and our hero made a glorious pitch from the top to the bottom of the stairs.
It was happy that this expedient proved the conversion and effectual reformation of the young gentleman.
In the days of yore, a certain young gentleman had become a notorious inamorato to the billiard and card table.
All his hopes and enjoyments were concentred in a kind of amusement,
in which, as an adept, he had no compeer. In the wise and fortunate arrangement of things, the compagnon de chambre of the gambler was a paragon of virtue. His celebrity for regularity and every species of vice, had pervaded the city and ruinous tendency of such a deluded youth of the great impropriety. To effect this, the good compagnon de chambre was conscious that ordinary means were totally inadequate to his reformation unless some method were soon adopted, his destruction would inevitably follow. He therefore contrived one night, when the gambler was gone to pay his devoirs to the billiard table to get a monstrous great black hog into their chamber. The morning began to dawn as he returned. All was hushed as the foot of night. He was beginning to open the door, when, to his unutterable astonishment, he was saluted with a grunt. Before the door was half open, his Pandemonian majesty, as, from his shape, colour, and language, as our hero took him to be, rushed out—broke down the door with a horrid crush—took up the gambler with irresistible force—disgorged an impetuous torrent of the salutary dialect—and sprang forward with renovated vigour, till he and our hero made a glorious pitch from the top to the bottom of the stairs.
It was happy that this expedient proved the conversion and effectual reformation of the young gentleman.
What sub-type of article is it?
Deception Fraud
Curiosity
Personal Triumph
What themes does it cover?
Moral Virtue
Deception
Triumph
What keywords are associated?
Gambler Reform
Valet Trick
Black Hog
Moral Conversion
Billiard Table
Card Table
What entities or persons were involved?
Young Gentleman
Compagnon De Chambre
Where did it happen?
Their Chamber
Story Details
Key Persons
Young Gentleman
Compagnon De Chambre
Location
Their Chamber
Event Date
In The Days Of Yore
Story Details
A virtuous valet places a black hog in the room to scare his gambling master, who mistakes it for a demon, leading to a fall down the stairs and his reformation from gaming.