In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain, Jim Smiley is a gambler.
A friend of the narrator tells him to look for Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley and to contact Simon Wheeler for that purpose. Wheeler uses long descriptive sentences to instead of speaking about the Reverend telling the story of Jim Smiley a man that gambled on everything he could, horses, and dogfights. He even teaches a frog to jump to gamble on it.