A RULING PASSION.

Another gambler on his death-bed, having seriously  taken leave of his physician, who told him that he could not live beyond eight o’clock next morning, exerted the little strength he had left to call the doctor back;  having accomplished this with difficulty,  for he could scarcely speak above a whisper - . “Doctor”,  said he, “I’ll   bet you  twenty dollars I shall live till nine.”.