Green, J.H., 1858, The Reformed Gambler. T.B. Peterson &
Brothers. Philadelphia, PA.
While in Syracuse I had
a special invitation to visit Cazenovia, a very beautiful country village
in Madison county. My expenses were to be fully met if I would go.
I went; and lectured three times to large audiences, who seemed much pleased,
though this was not largely testified in the collection to redeem their
pledge to pay my expenses, the whole amount being taken being a dollar
and sixty cents! while my bareexpenses, (including my bill at the rum
tavern,) were about five dollars! One of the gentlemen who
took up the collection remarked, as he handed me the box, that Cazenovia
was always ready to do her part in sustaining every good cause, and though
he had his fears on this occasion, yet from the weight of the collection,
he should judge they had done something extra. It happened that of
the one dollar sixty cents taken up, all but thirty-five cents were in
pennies. On taking my leave of the friend who made the collection
he said, "He trusted the citizens of Cazenovia would long remember the
Reformed Gambler." However this may be, it is certain the Reformed
Gambler will "long rememer them."