The beasts and the craps cudna weel du wi' less; and there was aye oor mither to see efter hiz!
He works fur my uncle, ur ruther sortercraps it on the sheers.
We take no koind o'care of ourssens, and tha furrineers win; And if tha weaether be bad, whoy we haen't naw craps at aell.
The older boys were playing crapsin Dennahan's lot and the smaller boys were watching them.
He allowed Joe to teach him to play craps and then said he didn't see much fun in it, and such was his magnetic power over poor Joe that Joe said he didn't see any fun in it either.
Me, I got to shoot that there game of craps with Panhandle, and I figure he won't ride this way.
And that game of craps is as good a excuse as I want.
Sneed came to the doorway and glanced at Cheyenne, who continued shooting craps with himself, oblivious to Sneed's muttered comment.
Hitherto craps had meant to him three or four newsboys in an alley and a little pile of nickels and pennies.
When de craps was laid by and most of de hardest wuk of de year done up, den was camp-meetin' time, 'long in de last of July and sometimes in August.
Folkses would jine in and wuk his craps out for him and, come harvest time, dey had to gather 'em in his barns, cause he never paid 'em no mind atter dey was planted.
He would plant his craps evvy year and den, Missy, he would go plumb crazy evvy blessed year.
Whiskey and craps were so much in evidence everywhere he looked, that he drew this conclusion soon.
His good resolution with regard to gambling had been laid on the shelf until further declarations, and he shotcraps whenever off duty, and when he could find a game.
He bet a quarter that a dinge who held the craps wouldn't hit, and lost.
We were shootingcraps on the bed, and the game was going along nicely.
The truth of it was that John Moore wanted the dollar, and had figured on it, in order to shoot craps on Saturday night, as was his usual custom.
Whiskey and craps got all his money, and then he parted with his wife.
Glenview had thrown the dice, much as Wyeth had observed the white people did back in the Rosebud Country--for they shot craps there as well.
Another roomer downstairs, and who read a great deal, was on hand and shot craps too.
Boys play at craps unmolested, gambling is prevalent, and Negro loafers hang about the street corners and largely support the Tenth Avenue saloons.
Didn't I play crapswith the nigger boys when I was a kid?
The negro, stopping suddenly in his game of craps in the Pell Street back yard, glanced up with a look of agonized entreaty.
Savoy alone had no account; the run of craps had recently gone heavily against him.
No wonder the newsboys could shoot craps or play the races.
Long 'bout August when craps was laid by, dey had brush arbor meetin's.
Old Marster 'lowed 'em mighty little rest from den 'til atter de craps was laid by.
All de lak of dat was done atter de craps was done laid by.
I've sworn off craps for good, and maybe I'll swear off poker after to-night.
I can't shoot crapsat all, and I get tired of cards after a couple of hours.
Tho' whiles ye moistify your leather, Till whare ye sit, on craps o' heather Ye tine your dam; Freedom and whiskey gang thegither!
Until aftah the fust craps wuz in, none o' the settlers' cabins hed anythin' but dirt floors.
Times is thet onsettled thet yer kain't sell craps naw nothin,' an' ready money 's pretty hard ter come by.
In twenty minutes Sam borrowed a stack from Sandy's steadily accumulating winnings and departed for the craps table.
A faro and a roulette game, with a craps table, made up the equipment, outside of half a dozen small tables given over to stud and draw poker.
It was not only the cigarettes and the one black cigar, purloined from his father, but the orgies at penny-ante, the occasional game of craps back of Mather's barn.
I promise for the space of one year, never to sit in a game of poker for money, never to shoot craps with Tacks Brooker or Happy Mather.
Now, the man that has the craps is the man for my money.
