The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-04-21
THE FRESH POKER PLAYER.
How He Goes to the City and Borrows
Money Enough to Return Home,

Money Enough to Return Home.
The other day young man with a
downcast expression on his face, and
chewing nervously on y toOth-pick, was
walking hurriedly up and down the
Office of city hotel Once he stepped
up and looked over the register, and
then he would walk towards the door
and flatten his nose against the glass
and gaze wildly out into the street
Then he would walk around some more
and look at everyone in the room with
wild, hunted, anxious look, which
showed plainly that he wanted to see
some one, and wanted to see him bad
too. He kept up the circus so long that
finally the proprietor walked up to him
and said:
What seems to be the trouble. young
man? You've either got to stop canter-
ing around this Office or get out, one or
the other I'd just "a soon have wild
hyena tramping about the office. Lost
a friend, going to have fit, or what
ails you
"See here, mister said the sad young
man, as he took the tooth-pick out of
his mouth and spit at the spittoon with
an excited, nervous effort don want
YOU to get mad. I'm in troublc; the
worst way, and I'm waiting fora friend
who | know is in town, as l see his
name on the register, and want 20 see
him and get him to help me out. came
DOW here last night, and got into .
little game of poker, and got done up,
and now want to see my friend and get
him to he, p me home. =,
The hotel man told him that was all
right, but to stop his prancing around,
or he would be obliged to shut him up
in the coal shed until his ''fricnd' came
around.
The Young man walked out towards
the door, and presently his friend came
, in, and the twain walked out the door
and down the street, the nervous young
man explaining to his chum how it was
that he came to get ''ioored," and ask
G ing for loan till he got home.
D The hotel man turned to by-stander
q and said: That's just the way it goes.
and that makes the third case of that
kind that I've seen this winter. These
Young suckers from some little town,
t come down here with few dollars, and
t get in with the boys, and expect to play
the eye-tecth out of them, and 90 back
home with half the money in milwaukee,
in their pants pocket. don't believe
= there is bigger fool on earth than
G Young man who has learned to play
!, poker a little, and who gets mashed on
i the game, and has played with the other
+ bows in his town for kernels of corn, out
:, in the barn, Sundays, when the folks
were at church, till he thinks he knows
i more about the game than the oldest
e gambler in the country. In every little
If town, almost. on earth, there is just
r such gang of young men. who get ar
>, insight into the game OF poker, and ge
= so they can open Jack pot for foul
u kernels of corn and not blush, Or come
II out of n game ahead, when playing
% penny ante with their chums, and tel
e. chances to one there is one of the mum
# Der who has more gall than the rest
- who imagines himself thoroughbred
u and who makes up his mind to 90 t.
!" some large place and win n few hundred
Al dollars. and come home and make hi
II chums' eyes hang out when he show
ar them his pile He goes to work carry
t. ing in coal or driving team, and save
- up fifty or sixty dollars, and buys ;
&c ticket for some large city. He scorn
= the idea of purchasing return tril
k ticket, rs lie thinks he will have hi!
n stake when he gets ready to return
home, and he can stand II better to pa,
railroad fare Well, he gets to the cit.
and hunts up some gambling rooms
5 that he has read about in the loca
g paper, and he sits into n game alon.
D. with lot of old chaps, old enough t
y be his father, and he thinks he ha
=. struck snap, and wonders what such
y crow of old buffers know about poker
y ANYWAY He commences to play an
rs the first thing he knows the old fellow
he make bets that causes the hair to stand
10 and his face turns red, and his shoe
are full of the perspiration that leak
out Of him as it would out of tin waite
cooler. He thinks he ought to show
es what sand he has. rs he used ~ at home
#. and he makes an effort to raise n bale
TO headed old party out of his boots b.
~, ~ making a bic bet, but when the 'shov
"a down comes and he finds that he ha
., been betting against one of the bigges
r, hands he ever saw in his life. he get
more nervous than ever. and he goes
blind, and it don't take more than fey
minutes before he is laid out tlatter thai
~ a tramp, the old buffers have got hi
n money, and a. they ask him to take
cd cigar or something to kind o smooth
e. over, he feels sick, and wishes he ha'
u never seen pack of cards. Then b
We does just what YOU saw that young fel
hit low doing just now. Gets some tello'
an whom he happens to meet from his ma
&c tive place to loan him money enough t
IN take him home, and he departs, poorer
r. and COMPOUNDED sight wiser than h
III, was when he came to town. Oh, 20
eu bet | know how it is with this class {
a Young men, and the hotel man sigheo
W. and shook his head, and walked away
70 -Pcck's Sun.
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