Middletown transcript., 1880-02-21
A PRETTY POKER PLAYER.
A Young Lady who took Hand Just for the
Fun of the Thing.

Lne uepOG last evening, one oI our Fe
porters, with grace pecul arly biz
own, swung himself on to the platform
of one of the sleepers, as the train
came to stand still. A brakeman in
quired cautiously:
Reporter"
Eyes"
"Well, don't give it away; but
something a little GURUS happened in
there, coming down from Buffalo, y
and as he spoke he motioned toward
the inside of the car. "Just look
here" he continued, and the Bohe-
mian Immediately followed him in
side the door. The car was not halt
filled with passengers, and peering
through the glass of an inner door, the
brakeman said:
"See that little woman on the left,
there ?"
do you mean that slight girl there
dressed in black. with the sad face,
looking out of the window p
"That's her! She's the boss! She
took 'em in, she did. Oh she's an in
nocent young woman, she is. Perhaps
she don't know bob-tail flush, when
she sees it. Just don't you fool your
self on that innocent face !"
In some surprise the reporter asked
what was meant.
"You just go in there and talk to
her. She'll tell you about it, mebbe.
But whether she tells you or not, she
scoope6 in couple of fellers ON draw
poker just the same, and don't you
forget it.
The young man promised to bear it
in mind and with some difidence,
made his way to the section where the
young lady was sitting. Apologizing
for the intrusion, he mentioned incl
dentally that he was a reporter, and
expressed the hope that he did not
intrude.
"Oh not at all, sit down." she re-
piled, and the youth at once perched
upon the edge of the cushion. She
was elegantly dressed, and with that
prevailing expression of confding
trustfulness on her face, the question
of gambling seemed rather a delicate
matter to broach.
"I-ah-that is-well | was just
told that you had been playing cards"
"Oh has some one been telling you
that? ? Dreadful wasn't it r.
The reporter said he didn't know,
but asked how it happened.
"Well, now, will tell you just how
it-happened. | live in Cleveland, and |
was on my way to Albany to visit |
friends. After we left Buffalo found |
that in some way | had lost my port
with all my money and what |
to do didn't know. / had my tick
ct in another pocket and that helped |
matters some. When we left Buffalo, |
two gentlemen in the section just
ahead of me commenced playing cards.
1t was poker. l became quite inter-
ested in the game, FOR you see / often
play it with my brothers, for corn, and
they say play pretty well. Pretty
soon made some remark about the
game, and they asked me if I would
like to set in Just for the fun of the
thing, | said yes and l never had
such luck. | guess they let me win
the first two or three times because |
was lady, but after that they played
for what they were worth, and SO did
I. And you never saw the equal of
the cards l held. They called me once,
and all | had was three aces and two
nines."
"Is that a good hand p
"Well, should say SO. 1t was good
for $S 90 that time.
"How much did you win in all ?"
ooh, somewhere between forty and
fifty dollars. | haven't counted yet +"
"Your brothers taught you how to
play?
eyes, that's what 1 said"
"And you lost all your money?
What did you chip in with first p
"Young man she remarked irrelev-
antly, "did you hear of that awful
leath in Buffalo to-day?
No! Great Scott? What was
t ?"
"a woman was talked to death by
reporter !"
"Oh !"
Eyes !"
At this point the Cali aboard" of
he conductor cut short a conversa-
ion that was promising to become in
eresting. The newspaper man van
shed through the door, and as he
lmped from the moving train, the I
brakeman called sortly after him:
Hey, Johnny! did she get into you
or anything" ."-ROchester Democrat. !
A BAD MAN TO HAVE AROUND
We never met Eli Perkins before. If :
-e ever see him again we hope to see
i'm running behind. He ought not I
} be encouraged as a public lecturer. y
is true that he offers more cheek Il
n the money than any man in Amer T
a and, therefore, is a great natural Q
lriosity, but he ought not to be en- + +
He has the most deprayed l
opetite for lying of any man we ever P
ct. He passed an afternoon in this e.
fee, and after he had left town the D
hole establishment had to be thor "
lghly fumigated, and still it is feared Q
at some of the lies that he left will T
showing themselves in the. Journal y
me day. 1t is as dangerous to have g q
ch a man around as it is to allow Z
'ur children to play with a frowsy- y
AIDED urchin whose mother doesn't d
ep a fine comb. IF he ever comes o.
Sioux City again we propose to o.
we him quarantined, and to charge
5 agents six prices for advertising to :,
lp out on constructive damages. a.
le only place where he would be an =.
provement is in congress, in place p p
Weaver.-SiOlsr City Journal. % %
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