As a gambling man, you ought to be able to give bit more information about "Cecil, the god of Luck" I sense a jest, but cannot flesh it out.

Once when I was a visitor in Port Deposit, MD, the black cook asked me if I had seen the sisslewig. I could truthfully say I had not. Later in the day I found out that the sisslewig was the newpaper.................
the "Cecil Whig".