SHORTY DREAMS by JACK LONDON
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
4.5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2021
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Two gold hunters stop for a week in Dawson to do some gambling, and one of them is convinced he has found a system that can win at roulette.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to 1001 classic short stories and tales. This is your host John Hagadorn and today a story |
| 0:36.3 | from Jack London called Shorty Dreams. And now part one. Funny you don't gamble none. |
| 0:44.0 | Shorty said to smoke one night in the Elkhorn. |
| 0:47.0 | Ain't it in your blood? |
| 0:49.0 | It is. |
| 0:50.0 | Smoke answered. |
| 0:52.0 | But the statistics are in my head. I like an even break from my money. All about them in the huge barroom arose to click and rattle and rumble of a dozen games at which Fur-clad moccas and men tried their luck. |
| 1:05.0 | Smoke waved his hand to include them all. |
| 1:08.0 | Look at them, he said. |
| 1:10.0 | It's cold mathematics that they will lose more than they win tonight that the big proportion is losing right now |
| 1:17.4 | You're sure strong on figures |
| 1:19.7 | Shorty murmured admiringly and in the main you're right but they such a thing as facts and one fact is |
| 1:26.8 | streaks of luck these times when every geez are playing wins as I know for |
| 1:31.5 | I've sat in such games and saw more than one bank busted. |
| 1:35.0 | The only way to win at gambling is wait for a hunch that you've got a lucky street coming, |
| 1:38.8 | and then to play it to the roof. |
| 1:40.8 | Yeah, it sounds simple. |
| 1:43.3 | Smoke criticized. |
| 1:44.9 | So simple, I can't see how men can lose. |
| 1:48.6 | Trouble is, shortly admitted, that most men gets fooled on their hunches. |
| 1:53.0 | On occasion I sure get fooled on mine. |
| 1:55.0 | The thing is to try and then find out. |
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