The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-05-01

him. turned him wrong side out, comb
ed his back hair and widowed in his
salary till lie was undigniied as IL wet
hen, and got Infatuated, and made mis-
.kc., and lost the run of the cards,
aud got about four times as many hearts
as his hand Naturally called for. | saw
another man who is Il great amateur
humorist sit d WI at the game and try
to be funny. When he happened to
have one or two small hearts he would
G.o tt.rm at tie boys GA iie fist lead,
and then lay back and chuckle over the
trouble that followed. 1t didn't work.
The bays got back ut him Oh suits, and
loaded him up with heats till he
couldn't See. After " or three hands
he ceased laughing;
THEN ABANDONED Ills SMILE,
then grew melancholy, and tinally be
canle the worst groWler 1T the table.
Then he stopped playing Tor the fun of
the thing. and squared his energies to
get III some tiue reveng'. That didn't
work either. The hearts came in thick
er and faster and more Of them he
would catch them On the second lead
of il suit and sometimes on the first !;
he yo5 them III surprising numbers in
unexpected places, until finally he gave
up the game, aud | understand is now
whiting Il tragedy to be called not
"Heults Of Oak but'Heurts of Steel
Yes, Hearts is il game OF great and
varied Resources. l never saw IL locker
on who wasn't frantic to learn it, and l
have yet to see III expert who didn't
pass through bankruptcy while getting
his eGUculiun.
1t Is il bad game toG chumls. A
cbunp may have Il run of uproarious
luck at poker which will make all the
long headed boys sorry, but let them
get hun at Hearts and See them skin
INN. 1t is beautiful to see a chump
who plays on his luck get into this
game aud run foui of Il short suit and
gather hearts, and be hammered and
get to squealing. 1t takes the conceit
out OF u man if it does enlarge his pro
family, aud these exasperatingly scien
ia, yv),i-t Me VorS ,ra thu eofrn,f n, q
one can wish to strike ut Hearts. The
only way to strike right and left, get
battered when you can't help it, and
then lay for the man that did the bat
tellng. and get him into the corn+r and
wax him. 1t is give and take. Some
times you will get a hand full Of big
ones, and you would rather have the
smallpox, but if you lay low you can
generally land some other fellow for a
couple, and then perhaps lam every
body next time. When several OF
these can t-get-away hands come III
succession you think Hearts a loath
some amusement which no gentlemen
would play, but Il couple of good deals
giving you opportunity to lay out your
neighbors will show you it has its re
deeming points.
There is IL member Of that club pei
haps the solitary one. who until lately
Was a member of the church and was al
ways laughing, anu never swore, and
was happy and prosperous, and every
body envied him, and nobody could
say he had ever docea fellow-being al
injury. Yesterday lie kicked his dog
refused to go to tie church fair because
it was too id expensive, quarrelet
and is to go to law with four persona
friends, and his wife threatens to SUI
him for divorce on the plea of bruta
treatment. He had learned Hearts.
H. H. G..