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Description
Mr. Burton describes the huge game of Crown and Anchor in which many of the three thousand aboard took part on the voyage back to Canada. Mr. Burton, not a gambling man, arrives home with all of his money safely in hand.
Transcription
And when we came home on the boat eventually, the Crown and Anchor games, did you ever play crown and anchor? That was a favorite game. I don’t know how many of them had Crown and Anchor games going and by the time I got across to home to Halifax, why, the money got into a comparatively few hands and then they had a huge big poker game and one man walked off with pretty near all the money. There was 3000 troops on that ship all got a pound a piece to spend and somebody took a lot of money off there. I knew better. They didn’t get my pound.