Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1880-10-21

now, much, eXceptingly by burglars.
The ngger was regularly ordered to
give him Il drink, when any of us
winked, and we kept winking. y
man wants sustaining, you know, and
we was blessed sight too tender-heart-
ed to let him feel his losses. Many
and many time me and my pardS
have put him too sleep in the back
room, with money in his pockets which
we might have took, and he never
would have known nothing; but Il
sporting man as respects hisself is
above that kind of game.
Well, he kept right straight on like
a good one, and the more he lost the
worse was his Judgment. 1t was SO
easy a thing that there really was no
fun in it. When spring time came the
bank was 100000 ahead, and the blast
ed fool hadn't over 800 to his name
We had been mighty polite and affable
like to him 50 far, but when fellow
has only II 800 and a watch and Il
scarf-pin, and will keep a-hanging
around game, he amt no use. He
kept ON a-cOming though, and | just
knew that if we didn't freeze him out
! he would turn out In be Il regular ST.
loon loafer. One night he come in and
hung off for while, and we thought
he hadn't Il red, but by-and-by he shows
$500. ! was kind of curious to know
where the money had come from, We
laid low for him, and Just sucked in
his money as easy as could he. Next
day we found out that he had kept
back some of his money to build Il
marble monument over his mother and
had had the plans made. But | rather
guess the tombstone cutters didn't divy
any Of that money much, and the old
woman amt got no headstOne yet to
speak of as | knows Of. What's the
uSe Of such things anyhow? Then he
didn't turn up for week, and we
thought we was shut of him.
One howling bud night when the
room was full, and there was no place
at table, he comes in and edges up to
where | was dealing. He had pawmcd
his ovcrcoat quite likely, Tor he was
a-shiycrlng from the ram. lie draws
a few quarters out Of his pocket, but |
shut down on him, telling him it was a
dollar game and there was no room for
him. lie pulls out his watch and offers
it for so worth of checks. 1t might
have been worth pretty nearly that for
the old gold in the case, but we wasn't
pawnbrokerS SO We let him have $50 on
it. lie took the chips grrrdiIy, and two
rouSing drinks, and played like Il fool
What blasted baby he was, | kept
u SIoSlllhE over WIN sympathy lnr MN
. OF course; INT II 1t was ms daddy
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Keep turning up aGIll Il lanlly TIM"
piece, what's the use OF bIuhbrrlna
over it? 1t amt plllrEy. Next time
he haulS ont OF his SHIRT Il diamond pm
and dlckcrS That Tor pie OF cllipS
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know, 1t was Il ialrlSh Stonr' and ever
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