Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1845-02-12

up together, I'll take of passed. from top, |
and the bottom one of them | take off Will |
be one of the Jacks"
"Me TO mix 'em fust," said old Jed diah.
"Yes.'
Sand you not to see but the back of the |
top one, when you go to cut as you call
"Jist so, daddy"
"And the backs all jist as like as kin
bc?" said the senior Suggs, examining the
cards.
"More like nor cow-peas," said Simon.
at can't be done, Simon," observed the
old man, with great solemnity.
{" Bob Smith kin do it, and so kin l."
"It's agin mater, Simon; thar ant man
in Augusty, nor on top of the yeath that
kin do itp'
daddy" said our hero, "ef you'll bet
"What!" Numbered old Mr.. Suggs,
"Bet, did you say?" and he came down
with scorer, across Simon's shoulders
sine, Jed'diah Suggs, that's been in the
lords sarvice these twenty years-me bet,
you nasty, sassy, trifin', ugly"
81 didn't go TO say that, daddy; that
warn't what | meant, adzactly. ment
to say that eff you'd let me off from this
here maulin' you owe me, and gire me
Bunch,' eff cut Jack, I'd gire you all this
here silver, eff did'n't-that's all. To be
sure, alters knowd you wouldn't bet"
: Old Mr.. Suggs assertained the exact
amount of the silver which his son handed
} him, in an old leathern pouch, for inspec-
) ton. He also. mentally, compared that
5 sum with an imaginary one, the supposed
value of certain Indian pony, called
"Bunch," which he had bought for his
I sold woman's" Sunday riding, and which
5 had sent the old lady into a fence corner,
the irst--and only--tme she had ever
) mounted him. As he weighed thepocu OF
silver in his hand, Mr.. Suggs also endea-
3 vored to analyse the character of the
transaction proposed by Symon. sit sar-
!, tinly can't be nothin' but gipin' no way
it kin be twisted he murmured to himself
81 knoD he can't do il. so there's no resk
What makes bettin? The resk. It's a
] one-sided business, and iii jist let him give
5 me all his money, and that'll put all his
wild sportin' notions out of his head"
f "Will you stand il, daddy?" asked S.
mon, by way of waking the old man up.
"You mought as well, for the whippin'
! won't do you no good, and as for Bunch,
: nobody about the plantation won't ride
him, but me-"
"Simon," replied the old man, 81 agree
e to it. Your old daddy is in close place
f about payin' for his land; and this here
d money-it's jist eleven dollars, lackin' Of
: twenty-five cents--will help Out mighty.
] But mind, Simon, eff any things said a.
n bout this, hereafter, remember, you give
: me the money"
: "Very well, daddy, and eff the thing
n works up instid o. down, | 'spose we'll say
: you give me Bunch-eh?"
0 "You won't never be troubled to tell
d how you come by Bunch; the things agin
2 mater, and can't be done. What old Jed.
e diah Suggs knows, he knows as good as
d anybody. Give me them ixaments, ST.
: mon."
h Our hero hands the cards 10 his father
# who, dropping the plough-line with which
0 he had intended TO tie Simon's hands, turn.
v ed his back 10 that individual, in order to
r prevent his Witnessing the operation Of
d miring. He then sat down and very lei
Y surely commenced shutting the cards, ma
d king, however, an exceedingly awkward
it job of it. FESTIVE kings and queens jump
J, ed from his hands, or obstinately refused
: to slide into the company of the rest of the
e pack. Occasionally, a sprightly knare
would insist on facing his neighbor; or
s pressing his edge against another's, hall
" double himself up, and then skip away.
u But Elder Jud'dlah perseVeringly contln'
o ued his attempts to subdue the refractory
e while heavy drops burst from his forehead
}. and ran down his cheeks. All of sud
/! den, an idea, quick and penetrating as a
J. rife-ball, seemed to have entered the era.
e MUM of the old man. He chuckkled au
!! dibly. The devil had suggested 10 Mr.
e Suggs an imprOmptu, "stock," which would
Z, place the chance of Simon--already sui
n flciently slim in the old mans opinion
r, without the range of possibility. Mr..
l. Suggs forthwith proceeded to collect all
If the picter cGrdS-so as to be certain TO in
clude the .iacks-and place them at the
., bottom; with the evident intention o
>. keeping Simon's fingers above these wher
J. he should cut Our hero, who was quiet
D. ly looking over his fathers shoulders al
- the time, did not seem alarmed by thu:
d disposition of the cards; on the contrary
1t he smiled as if he felt perfectly confiden
in of success, in spite of it.
10 SNOW, daddy said Simon, when hi
,e father had announced himself ready, "nar
b ry one Of US amt got 10 look at the cards
while Pm cuttin'; if we do, it'll Spite tn
!" conjuration."