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Still above this second story is the haunt of "Keno."
So much for the "El Dorado."
"Polka" Club
. Some twenty steps down the street is the "Polka," that establishment which came near to bearing the name of the "Golden Fleece."
Here are the same half doors, but upon them the mystic announcement "Monte Arriba J” This means that the great Mexican game of "monte" has come to town, and may be here ± partaken of, whence it happens that the "Polka" is a pet haunt of those eminent Cuban patriots who wage a terrific war on the Spaniard by word of mouth.
Having safely returned to this city (New Orleans), they deal out horrid anathemas on Dulce and all the rest of them, and then mitigate the asperities of this warfare with copious monte. How this is played, or what it is save a game at cards, the writer saith not, but, be it what it may, the Cubans ulay it much, sometimes insisting on having the game conducted on a specie basis, and in such cases the green tables are lustrous with literal piles of gold and silver coin.
Ground Floor
Entering the "Polka", the bar is found on the ground floor,
9	ar>3	opposite	to	it	the mystery of rolling "Faro."
About the walls are pretty much the same assortment of little games as at the "El Dorado."
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One conspicuous feature is a massive Roulette Table, which seer:? second in favor only to Faro.
At the "Polka," the game of "bacarat" is likewise nlayed.
In one corner of the room appear a piano and gallery for musicians, where lively Offenbachian strains are discoursed.
"Keno"
Up stairs — there is a second story--such as described in the case of the "El Dorado," and still above that the hall of "Keno."
This hall presents, to a certain extent, the appearance of a court room, there beins a dais in the centre similar to that wherein his honor sits, and round about the hall a number of chairs and tables as if for the accommodation of the bar. On the dais are tables; upon one a pegging-board to keep the score of the game, and on the o'ther a mystic machine of polished wood, something in shape like an old fashioned Dutch gin bottle, from -which the fateful little balls with numbers are successively drawn.