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...follows the devious fortunes of a band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along in bright-painted horse-vans to flitting over the country in shiny automobiles. Whether or not some of the language is highflown-and whether or not gypsies ever caught chickens by dragging past...
...before, during and after the Civil War. The chief characters are the three little pasteboards of three-card monte; the marked poker deck; palmed aces, loaded dice and Devol, who never would give up his takings, preferring a rough-and-tumble every time. He was an expert rough-and-tumbler and left a trail of broken noses behind him by his deftness at ramming with his head. He has but one moral to point- that the suckers are just as crooked as the gamblers but not so clever. Many of his anecdotes are entertaining, all are lively, but they suffer...
...Larry--No evasion, Paymore! Every hash-slinger and table-tumbler must know that customers are their mortal enemies...
Blow glass into a hollow sphere, kick it about like a football. Mould glass into a tumbler, heat it to the point where pieces of paper in the tumblers are charred, plunge it into cold water. These are tests which were withstood by recently discovered "unbreakable glass...
Under the direction of Coach Seikel certain eligible men attained proficiency in quite advanced work, especially in the horizontal and parallel bars, and J. R. Weist '23 developed into a promising tumbler...