The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1882-06-02
4 QUIET LITTLE GAZE.
Jerry GrceniBg's Account OF a Tran
action with Cards ON a PuIIma

Car.
oPlayin' poker is mighty dangerous
bizness. boys, said old Jerry Greening
the other night, as he came into the
Williamson House barroom.
Some of "the boys" were indulging
in a little game of draw poker, with a
limit. lust to pass away the time. Judge
Ridgwav. the champion sucker fisher
man of this region, asked Jerry if he
would take q hand. "No, thankee,"
said the veteran yarn spinner as he
helped himself to 3 "chaw of Lie Pei
toms tobacco II ein't takin' in keerd
playin' nowadayx Et You felIers II lay,
down yer keei Is. I'll chuck pennies to
see who pays fer the drinks all around,
an then I'll tell We a leetle story bout
poker playin'."
The cards were laid down, the coins
were pitched, and "SiD Terwilliger was
the unfortunate one. Reinforced with
tumbler of "gin and tansy," the old
man took off his slouch hat and heavy
muffler and prepared to spin the prom
ised yarn.
Lem'me see," started Jerry, "I
guess it were nigh about 1even year go
/ were goin' out West with a party o
city folks to hunt on tn prairies. We
was trav'lin' In powerful fine style IN
one o them pallet keers, when we see a
real nice lookin' feller with a dImond
buzzum-pin come into the keer. He sot
down near me, an bineby he got the
owner of the keer-which l remarked to
the time was a nigger-to get table Tor
him. He got playin' keerds all lone
by hisseh, and bineby mother nice look
In feller came in, an them two fellers
got a-playin'. Arter awhile the two city
fellers that were goin' out West with me
took hand In tn game, an fore we got
to Chicargo my two fellers hadn't 'nough
spondulix round 'em to buy square
drink o Ticker, let lone 'nough to go
furder West. Fin'lly one o my men-I
alters calls 'em my men, becase they
was goin' West with me, yer know-said
to tn feller with the di'mond buzzum-
pin, Let's change the game. I've got
Jest 50, 900 cash in my grip-sack, that
b'longs to my old man in Ohicargo let's
play eucher for a change Now, I'll
tell We what I'll do, said tn buzzum-pin
man ; IN Jest bet ye even So, 100 thet |
kin take them keerds an cut the jack G
hearts the very first time By darn,
III do 1t, says my man. Wall, sez /,
IN hold the stakes All right, seq
the buzzum- pin man. During this little
conversation my man We're shuffiin' up
the keerds kinder nervous like, so he
had laid 'em down an told me to keep
an eye on 'em while he got his cash. He
come back with the money an handed
1t to me. Mr.. BuZZum-pin got out his
cash, but with what he he'd won from
my man an what money he he'd he were
short Jest 500. Wal, sez /, rather
than see yer fun broke up I'll lend ye
tn hundred So / pulls out a mole
stockin' L he'd in my grip sack an got
out five tVventy-a aollar gold pieces. Thar. >.
sez i, now get down to or. -'sz'ise'ssA ;
Wall, they got Mr.. Buzzum-pin
took tn keerds In his hans an drawin'
bowie-knife outen his hip pocket ne
cut them keerds right in two quicker'n
hghtnin'. Thar sez he, 1 cut tn
Jack o. hearts tn fust time, mister, an
reckon that I'll freeze onto that thar
cash. Fork her over, mister, sez he to
me. Jest bout that time l see tn pint
o the scheme, an laffed till 1 putty
nigh busted. 1 gist got down onto the
floor an laffed, an 'twere close t five min
utes fore got cooled down agin. Iwere
Just ready to pay the buzzum-pin man
tn SO, 200 cash, an his face were as
smilin' as q mans is when he looks at his
fust baby, when all { oncet my man
sez Mr.. Greenlng, Ireckon you'll pay
that huge pile over { me- The gree
ment was that l were t cut tn jack tn
fust time, sez Buzzin-pin, an / done
it, so I'll take the dough, if you please.
1 cut it, didn't I?' Wall, no. sez my
man, pullin' the iacko hearts outen his
left sleeve, 'Ireckon notp Wall, boys,
eff you could a seen that feller's face
drop you'd smile a smile. The first
thing he done were to reach out for his
shootin' iron, but my man sez oh,
don't do that, an kinder raisin' the lap
board they were playin' ON, he showed
Mr.. BuzZum-pin a six-shooter pintin' IN
tn direction O. his heart, an 'twere full
cooked, too. Wall, I'm dun brown for
once, says the buzzum pin man, an sez
he Who be ye, anyway, strangerY
Wal, sez my man, Il don't
mind ,bliging ye with my cog'o-
men. I'm Billy Birdsall of New York,
an I'm the man thet invented
TINT little scheme O. cuttin' tn jack, an
nov, m friend, I'll Civ ye leetie piece
OF aivice. l let ye win all m cash so l
couli clean you out. Ef I'd tried t
cleal ye at poker could done it, but
you'o stopped playin' fore ye got
broke so l laid for We. After this when
yo're yoin' t. cut the jack, don't let any
one hmdle the keerds fust. Mr.. Green
ing VII give ye $50 outen tn stakes an
L guessvou'd better light ont at Chicar-
go, an ,e want d keep yer eye peeled
fer ye how them Chicargo peoples
noted fortheir big feet, an they amt In
any way 0licate bout using 'em eff they
gets skinnd by sharper. Good even
ing?'
Wall. nid .he buzzum-pin man his
$50 an he ct out at Chicargo. Me an
them two felars he'd good laff over the
way we faxd him, an since that /
hain't played no keerds. OF course 1
don't s'pose any of you fellers II cheat
at keerds, andpve no 'jections to playin'
with you, thourh / did see Bill Carknff
slippin' mace own into his lap to lay
for mace full. Ye see now, boys, Why
] don't play no keerds. Lets chuck
agin for the drinls an then guess I'll
go home, for I've rot to try case for
salt an batter tomorrer mornin' fore
Squire Dewitt.
Having "chuckei" for and disposed
of his drink, Jerry bsde the crowd good
night and started br home, and the
game of poker was relewed.