Mower County transcript., 1890-03-19
BEATING BE: a BuNco.
A Green Countryman Strikes q Big snap
A5i st Chicago. 7-.TG :;

IN 4
A Green Countryman Strikes a Big snap
ct Chicago.
It's curious feature in human nature
that while man will peril his life to
assist a stranger who is being forcibly
robbed, he will turn about and delight
in seeing that same man taken in and
done for by ''skin" game or bunco
man. On the next bench to us in LIN
coin Park, Chicago, one day last fall,
sat long, lean, lank stranger who had
hayseed 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 extended his hand
and exclaimed:
We'll, we'll, but how are you Ste
vens?"
"How ar ye?" replied the man, as he
looked up in puzzled way.
''What! Don't you know me?"
''Why, your face looks kinder familiar,
but 1 can't place ye."
"Can't place me! am William Scott,
nephew of the Judge of probate in
Grassv1lle! saw you hundreds of times
II the two years l lived with my uncle. {"
"Oh, yes. I thought l had seen you
before. And you knew me right Off"
"The minute I set eyes on you"
SLOWS every body down there?'
"All tolerable. You live here?"
Eyes. l look after about fifty houses
and stores here for a capitalist"
Gosh! You must get big wages"
"Oh, a hundred week."
"You do! By gum! but you are smart
or than fox traps! Mebbe you can help
me to job?"
II think So Indeed, was going to
make you an offer.''
We were on to him from the start as
a bunco man, but had no thought of in
terfering. 'Hayseed" should take the
papers and keep posted.
"How would you like to come here
and assist me at salary of 5000 per
month";" queried bunco after bit.
"Je whitaker! but you don't mean it,"
II do"
'Give US yer hand on it! Say I'll work
all day and sit up all night for them
wages! Say, will ye bind the bargain
right now?'
II will. That is, I"
mo funking out now! I've got hun
dred dollar bill here, and I'll give ye
fifty to bind the bargain. Yes, by gosh!
I'll give ye sixty!''
u was going to say that 1 ought to
see my employer first, but 1 know it
will be all right. I will take your $50,
but only for day or two, as 1 happen
be little short just now. You know
where the Palmer House is, of course?''
''That ALFRED big stone tavern?"
"Yes. Meet me there in one hour
from now to sign contract and begin
work.
'Ill be right thar, and I'll work like
boss. 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. al
though we pretended not to see or hear
any thing. When he was out of sight
'Hayseed" came over to US with a grin
on his face, and queried:
''How did I act it, boys?"
"What!"
my young man from the turnip-
fields"
''But you-you-"
I'm from Cincinnati. I do a 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 hundrad do11.r
bill" 'A
"Exactly-one 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
Mr.. Palmer's big stone tavern. Two
hundred month! Wake, snakes, but
hain't jist struck golconda with a
big G!"-N. Y. Sun.