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clothing from off their backs or even their faithful squaws.

This betting of a wife upon a gambling game was a rare event, not because of any disinclination on the part of the loving husband to put up the wife of his bosom on a wager, but rather to the disinclination of the other man to put up anything of value against such skittish property as Indian squaws. The Indian might be a gambler, but he wasn't always a fool, and to win an assorted lot of wives was not exactly the way to get rich or happy.

It was only in cases like that of the amorous Jewish King that an Indian would in a gambling game put up anything of value against an Indian woman, and had King David and his faithful Uriah been Columbia River Indians, the wily old lover would have needed only to