THE GAME OF CHAP-JI-KI. 71 
ki sub-agencies did nearly as much business as the principal 
lotteries. The Chap-ji-ki sub-agencies were opened in all the 
chief districts in the town. 
Unlike the principal or original Chap-ji-ki, the sub-agency, 
was open to the general public,and both male and female 
collectors were employed to collect stakes. After the mana- 
ger of a sub-agency had got together a small staff of collec- 
tors he fixed an some house (usually a private one) which 
he kept open at all times as a Chap-ji-ki office. The house 
got known to the public and anumber of women would go 
to the house in person and stake. 
When the lottery was to be opened, the sub-manager 
would state that whatever winning card is declared to-day by so- 
and-so (one of the principal chap-ji-ki managers) that will be 
the winning card by which his own lottery will be decided. 
Directly the principal named had declared his winning card 
for the day, a messenger would be sent to the sub-agency 
to state what it was, and the sub-manager then announced 
it to the party of stakers who had already assembled in the 
meeting house. Very few precautions were taken in these 
sub-agencies and they were therefore easier to arrest. The 
amount staked, however, in the sub-agencies did not amount 
to more than a hundred dollars or so a day. 
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