The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1855-04-19

just been turned up.
A couple Of cards had been turned up
without the two making its spperence.
Al last The three fell to the left, and TO the
right-a scarcely Percepiible smile played
on the bankers lips-the two. The
stranger turned deadly pale, but without
uttering syllable about the change in
his luck, he stretched out bis hand to the
sack. and was on the point Of opening it.
in order TO count the dollars, when The
banker said, laughiDgly, Let it be; !
know how many are in it-eight-and.twen.
| ty. Am not right"
"Not exactly p said the man, calmly
and shook the silver out on the table.
He then shook the bag still more, and a
roll of bank-notes, slightly wrapped to
geather, fell out.
whats that ?" the banker cried in
alarm, and the audience pressed curious
ly round.
my stake !" the man said, with ap-
parent indifference, as he uEfAstened the
thread that bound the notes.
"Stop that will not dol" the banker
cried, as he threw down his cards that's
false play. You only paid eight-and.
twenty dollars on the previous evening"
"False play 2 the man shouted, and
his eyebrows were menancingly cOntrac.
ted. "Prove it, you shutters Did l
not lay the bag just as it is on the card,
and hav you ever refused to pay it uno-
pened ?"
"No I! that's all correct-quite right"
said those around, who are always glad
to oppose the banker, because they are
firmly convinced that he does not play
fairly, although they continually throw
away their money. "He staked and
won, and must be paid" others shouted
"Count your money how much is it ?"
said the banker. who had hurriedly ex.
changed few words with his confeder-
ates, seated opposite "how mudh isit !?
In the first place, twenty eight dol
lars in silver he said, calmly, while the
bystanders laughed heartily. Then,
t here in bank-notes two, three, four, yes
eight hundred dollars and then,
{ What more 2
"A small bill on Goldsmith Brothers,
t as good as silver. accepted and all the
money need only be fetched-for-three
thousand
Three thousand J. the banker yelled,
4 starting from his chair. why, that
t would make nearly four thousand dollars
: altogether Are you mad Do you ex-
: pect me to pay all that?
! 'Don'tI?' the stranger asked in sur.
o prise. Would you not have taken it il
t | had lost 3
\ .Of course be would--of course. Dc
d you ask whether they would take it
o Every thing they can get, and a little
IS more, too, shouted the voices round th'
r. table. He must payP s
d Gentlemen / the banker protested, il
t, the poor prospect of turning their hearts
d Gentlemen, this person staked ever.
at evening for the entire week
And lost every time,' another inter
lie rupted him. i have been present sew
n, eral times, and have heard so from 9th
st ers, and he never made the slightest OBJ
D. lection"
l. But that was only eight. and-twent,
in dollars
ne 'And if it had been go many thous
is ands, all the same
i But do let me fnishsS the banke
X shrieked, with aspen lips and furiou
I'd glances he only shook out twenty -eigh
to dollars on the table and kept the pape
a back a
i, oProye that l ever had q cent NOR
I'd than twenty.eight dollarsin the bag, ,'th
stranger exclaimed coutemptuously
ne you won't get off by such excuses
he why did you not keep the bag
n we'll, companerO 2 laughed Spaniart
id who stood near. We always stick
lie everything that is staked.'
to t"lf he had lost again, no more tina
c. the coufounded dollars would have CON
he out of the bag the banker growle'
he Possible but can't be proved, Il
nd surrounding players laughed. 'Yc
ly must pay mp Hanged if I do Il
g. banker shouted, and struck the tab
e. with his fist. This is a new sort Of 70
'e- berry you are trying upon me ;-but y
n have come to the wrong customer
a. W ont payP s .-
y. 'Pve lost two hundred dollars to y
/, in the last half hour, tall, gigantic Ke
he tuckian shouted. as he elbowed his VI
r., to the table, and was forced to pay
ri. to the cent. II you refuse to pay !
IL. that fellow, you must fork over my mo