Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-05-18
REVEREND THOMAS NORTH,
EVANGELIST.

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How did / come to shift my bets?
... I'm yer. But before begins want
-.s,e one request special. Don't call
Non, mo- more, unless we all sit alone.
os .orrse. being old runnin' mates, so TO
..,k 70 would nachally be all right,
these we're Chicago people don't
-,,, INV wayback dOin'S, and it looks
.r.. Twas comm the friSky 10 be called
~,., and me hOldiu' myself out Tor
..bar man-which l surely Is. Yer
I'm here at the expense Of my con-
..,rion. which is the law-abidinest
io the Pan Handle. Most Shep-
-7s takes their vacation in sumner
.aHs far Nurrnp fur their
,-er-b. But young Short-horn
T teacher located at TaScoSa
.t. winter. aud 'lowin' he could
.,.on lookout, and run prayer meet
and sich durin' my absence, the
institutes a rake-otf an l runs up
+o tend one of these theological
..ar' eit the bUrrS cOmbed cute my
..sa f.w bars. Yer see my language
s--,- seem to be just tttin' the pulpit.
-,.. Gang don't kick none, but l notice
.. ,,fao a maverick from the East or
.-- bs -he North StrayS into the corral
sunday. it ScareS him up tritle to
81, ,re eXplainin'. Yer see, bein'
IN. was in Missouri l never got
. s.hooIin'. and what l knows
.f,.o principally around faro
...5r over q poker-table But aims
. -.'.s -be wire aidge 0Hn my dis
,+b.r,s v,har I'm dOin' we're at
~gaue of life.
.r.sfsa long way of the center,
...-~b Yer want ter know how TINS
--.-5 was ulucked from the burnin' an
t.,.r becomes q poor, tOtterin monu-
-- of rrace2 Lemme see, son, IL
,.. the winter of 'S3-Or was IN -,
rban last seen YOU at Irlnluau'
,t,.t dead sure on dates, but 1t was the
rr,r-.r after Bob POtee jumped into the
Kaw. There was the gameSt man d
ever turned up q deal boN-an We seen
him turn her up forty times without
sweating drop, jest kept on q IoSIn
an' navin' out until the bank bust. lie
ygasa staver from away back, an when
bevas a rolHn' high there want NOBODY
r,'in' higher. He was the SQuareSt man
between ~. Louey and Cheyenne, an
tberp amt q Twin man can say Boo
ever done him outOf the price OF a split
or course he had his little imperiec-
tions One wife no Kansas City, another
al n. Lo~el "- -, bo lined n work
o-r-' lo' - ,.ia,or This MINER
soN-l uu''"- 'N Ill bo b.d
Gus ha0's V' ""' by, ,- -. D.,
l. m not mere 10 p"''''' -
Us am' .Ae "u''o - -,
o2nd my race IS az .u '.' a. go a.
mora. i@pse'' wv, I. " 'S DO 80 80 49, 80
"e. ltl F" 20 d, ',1. -. -
no missouri -
tA-~ N -- '' vas - - 80
.- N-.'-> N..,, ".' - -
'n .' ''' Hu p''O" 0~'
il> s -'--h ol TWO naJlVe 'Ooruer
r-as- '4l4 Co. b'o' amin 10 keep
p his spirits. h., navin 10 80 over
).eedll kansas lo deal bank
Tom, 'al he' this IS the worst l
ever so- 70 in tle neck. I've seen tnlS
town grow from WeStport landln'.
wood station Tor ferry river boats, 60 De
Che young giant of the West. an now
SneS reapsin back 20 the primeVlal
"ayS. I'm Niger II we don i've %
see grass CROWN In Main street. ms
yc,' towns q sure loser from now on
DO dead rabbit
80 we goes 90 WyandOtte; but luck
was agin rs from the start. Blmeby
Bob would get SO sore on himself that
bed 60 an tank up till he's clean OBJ
iy.ouS used to exhort him, but no
good. One day arter about three years
an we was both down he fill up more
chan is preyai.in' custom an reckOns
le so out for a walk. IL was about
,e1 o'clock, an I never did know no
good come 20 man as gifts drunk that
lr.y To- the day. / held out indOOce-
nentS ter him TO lie down, but
ae wouldn't listen TO me. had
resentment that SOmethln'
F4, roiu' TO drop. Two hours later
some uneasy critters walking along the
a'er bank finds his hat an coat an
"1.te vest, an out lookin' for the owner
strikes ole Bob In three OF water. he'd
o.en drowned an hour an hail. was
o4 my feed fer two plumb weeks an
AFTER we got Bob inQueSted an planted
'"ore I'd never turn another card In the
own. mere was hoodoo on IT, %
>'.1 oot' an alter knocAlh 3rOuhu
"Do.e 'o'' went u again I'n'u@u
There's the tln-hornest town on the
~.de eNpanSe OF the 'Merican continent;
Nothln Out gamblers an worse AN
.ne SKIN games Ihey Gee'S' why 9osu
of.cS man IS an anger o ltgn1 alohgsiue