LOADED DICE.
When it is intended to throw low, two sides of the dice having the
numbers four and five, or five and six, are loaded in the following
manner: the corner spot of the four-side, adjoining the five-side, is
carefully and neatly drilled to the depth of an eight of an inch. A
similar operation is performed with the corner spot of the five,
adjoining the four-side: so that the two holes thus made, meet. One of
the holes is then covered with a very strong cement of copal, or other
varnish, and quicksilver (sometimes gold is used) is poured into the
orifice of the other, which is still open, until it is quite filled,
when it is stopped up with the cement, and the spots blackened as
before. The person playing with a die of this description would
generally call seven as the main, and would mostly get six, five, or
four as his chance. He would then take the respective odds ; which, as
the bias of the dice tends to throw these numbers, are considerably in
his favour, and against throwing the main called.
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