The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-05-19
THE BLACK HILLS RAnoxR.
Brooklyn Eagle.

T Brooklyn Eagle. This is something cf a bridge. oh- served mild looking gentleman 10 big. barly tellow as they were both sauntering across that structure so dear to the city ef Brooklyn.
 Yes, is's ia something of the style we bridge gutseS out west
 Ah, then, you are a western man ?" remarked the pale city toilcr.
 You can ante on that. boss. every time. I'm just landed from the bosom of the rip roarin' west"
 And how is the west. A pretty n,ee place to live in. 1 fancy. ba, rom all 1 hear, it mus, require some nerve to face all its dangerss'
 Nerve, nerve. Why should smile shy man you'd not live long enough tn that climate to pick your lot n ceme- tery. I'm from Dakota. hear mel tsum the land of gory sealp-locks and busted thermometer"
 Indians theree Why had supposed they were al! q, peace nov and gathered in the agencies"
 "Agcncies." snorsed the western ran get. why as l came down the Mlssoa., l sa~ no less n ten thousAn6 in VAT paint and feather. D,d yau ever sec an In. dian pony. regular scrubb,. hal.hseed ponyg,
 The ci,y man neve, had Well" continued the rlalasman. !" was coming down from the up country ,o strike the Missouri. when l was set onto by red devils. Twas just coming dark. and heard such hullabaloo as would make you shake ,n your skia, horses stampln'. greaseu ycilin' and bullets flynn all around me. knowed l ',~As run or die. and Jus, ies go tha, pany. He was oi my uainin. and made just two hundred miles between tas, aa daylight. oa. ~e stass, oas vest
 Well. dld you outrun them Y
 "i should smile. Loag aboa, midnight heard the last yell. and when l struck the Missouri was as empty as eontt,- button box an dry as A prayer mees.a
 And the pony:"
 .oh, he was tteshf'n when VIC started. bu, was no good as I'd made up my n,lad 10 come down the tivcs.a
 !" Bu, where did you md baAt t' asked the pale man.
 s' Boa,. who said wanted a boa, Wh, man. did you ever hear oi the M,s.
 
 what a current that rivet hass 1 lusi took A comfortable s,sed los. mounted tha, an with couple ot bIanehe, pad. died ou, m the stream.
 "Oncc in the current. 1 Iu.t stretched myself on the log and wen; ts sleep, waking up that afternoon al Fort na- lord. three hundred miles below. Gu, rivers has currents, they can gltie. you bet"
 !" suppose you have been something of miner. too ~
 Well, there stranger. you struck my racket pat; rather think i've shogeied dlrt. Me aa' my partner washed claim that banned a shousand to the foot, We rolled up wealth till ws slekened Al the I yellow dirj an then pa, the hull sh.ny up on poker hand l And los,y''
 "LoaS No; bu, won bigget one than our own"
 And where is this mine new ''
 "Where we found H." sneefed the fierce piainsman. We people yes, make money when VIC start No ten dol lar week clerk business. you he, ''
 And this game of poker. how's ths, r' timidly asked the city man.
 Never piayi,, Why. man. you don, mean itl Let's kicker up an III teach you. That's my my game. ju, l only play square with you and show you some points. I'm the champion poker piayc, from a.lendisc. you hear me z
 Presently the qule, city man ana the roaring terror of the west were absorbed m poker game in the paflor of back Fulton stree, saloon The crowd gath. efej. Tine play went on Luck favored the city mar. and hs raked in hls oppo- nen,'s m oney ten. twenty. hhy, one hun. dfed. Then luck turned, he lost and kept losing. until the hundred vas won and fosf more were in the hands of the plainsman. Then. no longer daring to lose. he grasped his hat and fled, amid the toars of ihe efo~d.
 Let ; imbibc." The crowd stood up. The ehanstioa poker player flung ten to the bar-keepe, = Do, h no goo,." l Another and another bill mas prevented and refused. Done. fLmmixed. skinned by an in- fefnal tender foot" howled the Dakota nan h.nging his roll of enun,erfe,s b.lls to the hoos
 Not So, stranger. spoke up a voice from the crovd. That vas Slim Inn. one of the sharpea gambler. in Se~ York. and wbo learned hls trade in the Black Hills after he gave up fobbing stages.
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