Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-07-05

us to believe that he had come over to
pick up n few pointers ON journalism, but
when he carelessly and incidentally sug-
gcstcd n game of poker we dropped to his
little intentions. He had cleaned out his
own town and come over on n still hunt
after our editorial doodle. We do not deny
that we play the game of poker. We see
nothing wicked in 1t when the game is
square. We had secretly hoped that our
Red Bluff friend did not know the game
as we felt that we should certainly clean
him out If we sat down together. We
hung of as long as possible and then gave
in to him. We let him win our Office clock
and an old bcartrap to encourage him
and then got n royal flush and scoopcd
him out of money, guns, horse, Office and
all he had ON the face of this earth except
a cross eyed wife and two rsdheaded chill
dren.
Our policy In all such cases has been to
make tho astonished victim a present of
his Office and encourage him to keep right
IN with his newspaper, but to let the
game Of poker alone in future. In this
case we did more. We returned the editor
his gun, his horse, his Office and 81 OF his
$40 to buy flour and bacon to last his fam
lily over Sunday. He shed tears over our
generosity and rose up and embraced us.
In fact, he wept on our left shoulder and
promised never To touch cards again. He
seemed a contrite but happy man when he
started for home, and wo also felt better
toward all the world for tho policy we had
pursued Great was our surprise, there
fore, to receive n letter from him two days
later In which he callCsl us n double dyed
scoundrel and other things and added
that II we had n spark of manhood left We
would meet him at Turkey Bend last Sun
day and stand before him ut 10 PAGES.
When we woke up last Sunday, IL was
raining Us IL It would never stop. We alto
a scant breakfast, made our will and then
| mounted our running mule and started for
Turkey Bend, IL miles away. We wcrc
| there ut 10 O'Clock. From that hour
to p. IN. We stood under a trec, with an
umbrella over our head, waiting for that
Red Bluff critter TO show up. We not only
had every reason to expect him, but know
| ing that he had only n rusty old revolver
| to shoot ut US with we had brought along
n fne new weapon for his use. We had
/ even made up our mind to simply ehust
/ ono of his cars instead of seriously Touudt
ing him. At O'Clock Colonel Clark cnfiio
along from Red Bluffyoriiy three miles
saw In thatstowu was Tho Gazette man
sitting In hisown house In his shirt sleeves
| and stocking feet and evidently taking
i things very coolly. Tho man never intend
ed to meet us. He couldn't have been
pulled out there with n mule and n rope.
4 In spite OF our Efforts TO keep tho mat
ter quiet, many Of our citizens have heard
Of tho case, and We have been repeatedly
asked what we propose to do about IL
When a man rides "a miles In this coun
try to shoot and be shot at and tho othei
chap doesn't show up, 1t Is expected tina
he will at least fling down his hat and
jump on IL. We have nothing to say, and
we shall do nothing except TO try to ar
range an Interview between our estecmes
contemporaa In this town and Tho ca