Casino – Monkey Dice

“I don’t believe in ‘luck.’ For all that I care, a monkey could roll the dice!” I guess I repeated this mantra so often that publisher Lyle Stuart quoted it in one of his gambling books.

One day I got a call from Lyle asking me to meet him in front of my Manhattan office. He said it was important, and that he was coming over from New Jersey to give me “something.”
Mystified, I waited outside.

Lyle drove up and rolled down the window of his Mercedes, handing me a large oblong package. Smiling mischievously, he announced, “Okay, kid-here’s something you’ve always wanted,” and drove away.

I now own a wind-up mechanical monkey that gives a little chatter, does a little dance, and tosses out a small pair of dice from a cup in his right paw.

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