Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1890-05-22
BUNco MEETS BUNcO.
An Entertaining Little Game Played ~ .
Stranger in Lincoln Park.

Ito a curious feature in human ma
ture that while a man will peril his
life to assist stranger who is being
forcibly robbed, he will turn about
and delight in seeing that same man
taken in and done for by skin"
or a buuco man. On the next bench
us in Lincoln Park, Chicago, one
nv, saws writer on the n. Y. Sun,
sat long, lean, lank stranger who
had haysced and onion tops scattered
all over him to prove his hailing place,
and he gave himself away in every
move he made. Pretty soon slick
Young man approached him and ex-
tended his hand and exclaimed:
We'll, well, but how are you, Stew
ens?"
How ar YEP" replied the man, as
he looked up in puzzled way.
What. Don't YOU know mee'
why your face looks kinder famil-
lar but can't place ye."
Can't place me! am William
Scott, nephew of the Judge of Probate
in Grassville. ! saw you hundreds of
times in the two years | lived with my
uncle"
'on, YES. tHouSut hdu ecCh
you before. And you knew me right
OPP
The minute | set eyes on you
"How's everybody down therc?"
"All tolerable. You live here
YES look after about fifty houses
and stores here for capitalist"
Gosh! You must get big wages"
"Oh, a hundred Il week.
You do Buy gum! but you are
smarter than fox traps! Mebbe you
kin help me TO job?'
II think so. Indeed | was going to
make YOU an offer"
We were on to him from the start as
bunco man, but had no thought of
interfering. Hayseed should take the
papers and keep posted.
How would you like to come here
and assist me at a salary of 5000 per
month";" quered bunco after bit
"Je whitaker! but you don't mean
it?"
II do"
Give up yer hand on it! Say. I'll
work all day, and sit up all night for
. them wages! Say, will We bind the
bargain right now?"
II will, That is, i"
mo tlunking out now! I've got q
, hundred dollar bill here, and I'll give
We fifty to bind the bargain. Yes, by
gosh! I'll give We sixty"
Il was going TO say that | ought to
see my employer first. but | know it
will be all right. ! will take your 500,
but only for day or two, rs | happen
to be little short just now. You
know where the Palmer House is of
course?'
That ALFRED big stone tavcrn?n
Yes. Meet me there in one hour
from now to sign contract and begin
work"
IN be right thar. and I'll work
like hoss. Gin me $40 out of this
bill"
He handed out BILL and the young
man scarcely glanced at it, so great
was his hurry to return the forty and
get away. think he mistrusted us,
although we pretended not to see
or hear anything. When he was out
of sight "Haysecd" came over to us
with a grin on his face, and quericd
How did act it, boys?'
What"
My young man from-the-turnip-
| fields"
! But you-you-
I'm from Cincinnati. | do Il little
business with the three cards and the
shells when home. Thought I'd see
what they were made of in Chicago
But you gave him Il hundred dollar
bill"
Exact -onc of the counterfeits of
1874. | had fifteen of them once. I'm
just $40 ahead I'm going now. If he
should return before you leave tell him
that Stevens has gone TO meet him at
MIR. Palmer's big stone tavern. Two
hundred Il month. Wake snakes, but
hain't jist struck golcon with big
! Gr