They’re not allowed to gamble with money or mining company possessions, so they gamble with humiliation.
Transcript:
Page 32 panel 1
(Man looking at cards on table)
Man:…oh no…
Panel 2
(Two inebriated men shouting and laughing)
Man 2: Ooooohohohoho!
Man 3: PIKEEEEEEEY!!
Panel 3
(A fourth man, gloating, hands him a frilly summer bonnet. Other men still laughing)
Pike: I don’t ‘aff t’ do the Voice, do I?
Panel 4
Man 2: Do the voice, Pike-o! C’mon Pike-o!
Man 3: (chanting) THE VOICE! THE VOICE!
Panel 5
(Pike embarrassed, wearing the bonnet and standing like a young starlet singing a musical number)
Pike: (in a high falsetto) Wheeeen I was a young lass, my mother said to meeeee–
Panel 6
(Lysander and Bradley in background behind them)
Lysander: What the Hell is going on!
