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A writer in the Marysville Herald thus discourses on banking games. "A banking game," he says, "is any kind of game played with cards, dice, or other device, in which one or more persons risk their money in opposition to the multitude. The banker may be denominated, in the parlance of the day, the inside bettor, and the populace the outside bettors. A man, for instance, who deals monte, places before him on the table a thousand dollars, more or less, in money. He shuffles and deals the cards, lays two of them out before the multitude, and asks them to stake their money on a guess of which card will win. In this case the dealer of the cards would be the banker, or the inside bettor, whilst those who wagered their money on a guess would be the outside bettors. So in any other game of chance, where there is an inside bettor and an outside bettor, the inside bettor is always looked upon as the banker. He pays out to all who win from him, and takes in all that the outsiders lose. The games that come immediately under the head of banking games, and of which there is no dispute, are faro, Mexican monte, French monte, rouge et noir, twenty-one, and most other games played with cards; also roulette, the tiger, elephant, and other wheel games of similar character, sweat cloths, and all other games played with dice, and many other kinds of games not necessary to enumerate.

" Lansquenet and rondo differ from other banking games in this particular: The banker in the games of monte or faro deals himself, and permits all who wish it to bet against him; whilst in lansquenet and rondo the bank is generally made by an outsider, and consists of a certain specified sum, which may be tapped by one or more persons, as circumstances will admit of. It is not necessary that the banker in lansquenet or rondo should deal himself; any person may do it for him, but the man who throws up his dollar to be tapped is as much a banker as he would be if sitting behind a table with a bank of a thousand dollars deal