The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1872-11-30
Three-Keerd Monkey
= STORY (PRoBABLY \ FICTIoS) os CANADA BILL AND
a cALIFoRNLA POND NENIsTER.

y - - - - AANAAtEY u ANAb Dill An
CALIFORNIA BOUND MINISTER.
Canada Bill has had another exploit. \ few
months ago, as is well known by several gentle
men, Bill offered a certain railroad one thousand
dollars a month for the privilege of working
trains > In the three-card monte business. lie
offered to give bonds 10 a large amount that he
wouldn't take a cen. from anybody but preachers.
OF course this was charged TO Bills prejudice
against the clergy, but that he meant what be
said was eyineed by his pulling out a thousand
dollars in greenbacks, and insisted on placing it
in the hands of any one the road might name. 1t
Is useless 10 say that be was refused. 1t was not
believed that he ever won a dollar of a preacher
but Bill recently demonstrated his success in tina;
line.
a day or two since he boarded a Union Pacific
train in Omaha. In a few minutes he started
through the train TO see what he might find, and,
at last. sat down alongside a minister bound fS
California on q pleasure excursion. Bill had a
farm near PappIllIon, so he said, and had just
been 70 Chicago and sold thirty-seven hundred
terms, the minister and Bill were Interrupted by q
stranger passing through the car and dropping
several playing cards on the floor just in front oil
them. Bill picked them up and commenced toy
Ing with them. The minister deprecated their
introduction into the world. Bill then went on
telling him how some fellows had took him on
the keers' several days before on a game they
called . three-keerd monkey and gave q half
way explanation of the " how of it."
Just then a beardless boy came in, and. after
listening some time TO Bills story, said, NOW,
look ahere, old man, L can guess them cards. -
Bill let him try several times, and, sure enough.
the boy never missed once, and lost no oppor-
tunity to intimate against Bills brains. The lat
ter at last got mad, and offered to bet his watch
against the boys. The boy jumped ar the chance.
and lost his watch. Bill then went to another car
to get rid of the boy, who was boo-hooing at a
terrible rate about the watch being given to him
by his dying father, and he must have il back or
he could never face his dear old mother again.
The minister partially pacifed him, and so far
gained his confidence that he explained how he had
made a mistake, and if he had just some more
money he would win the watch back. He ex-
planned it so perfectly to the minister that the latter
told him he had some gold, and would risk it if
the boy would do the betting. The young inno-
cent agreed, and went into another car after Can
ada Bill, who came in but didn't want to bet. He
was a plain, honest farmer, and no gambler. But
the preacher showed him how unjust it was not to
give the boy a chance for his watch, and Bill con-
scented. Soon two hundred and fifty dollars of the
ministers gold was gone. .'Papio!" shouted the
brakeman, and Bill threw up the 'skeerds," and
told his antagonist that he lived there, and must
get off and go hum" The boy became so des-
perale at this that he told the minister that he was
determined to get off there too, and follow the old
farmer home and get that watch back.
Ii is needless to say that - the kid was in the
game.
Such is the world. Day after day this three-card
monte game is talked about in the newspapers, but
all to no purpose. One fool falls, and his place is
Immediately filled by another Omaha Dispatch,
Sept. Sth.