Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-04-21

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II wouldn't ADVISE struhsei =" ,He
back country OF AfAahsas ~ p.as
poker with ths hAt'ses' ioi no
to lose In the ions un 90 ~
TO RISE saiu the eoio"ei' PeNs
orange slice out OF the glass anu cheM-
ing 1t up Ihey am strons oh Aoiu
ing or playing their earus aiter 'hey
get 'em, but when the game breaks
I'm thew get in their fine work power
-, rt,,a 90 bea,- about lamp
'uily ne"'y' - -. a, 81, 90, 4,
We'll what III s"ihs " 'e" ~" :"
Cospel truth and no foolishness. Along
-. 1880 was down in Little Rock
"pou' 90 ,,,,ra carne In from
when par'"ei "a 80 -, -,
Indian Territory ana proposeu 0o''VH
huying trip through the lower part or
90 wa wont. We made
the h'"'e. Ill ,r,,,,
some pretty Boou ue"i' III siii'''
and at last reached place Ca'leu
,lufear's store. There were half "a
80, ,,,l d., h,ocl,s,rtth ahop in
uo-eh '''-- -, ,bar,
the town, but seven hilles away 'leiO
was q lively burg named Horton Cen
a. small railroad passed there, and
~ r,o,hor,r, ,Iaco for all the
II was the ba'h'iihs P''o' 80
EdlllOaA 'AsEfN~
miles around They fought chickens
al doy Sunday and PLAYED cards all
"' ..i,.,,4 d, ,ho ,,aal, Tobe
night every Hlsn1 III '"e -.
jenkins (my partner) ana Hlyseh Gun
cIrded we'd 60 over there one day
and tale "A whirl with the animals, so
""1 W. -. -, .,,,,,,, IL rrha
we started out cary u ANN ~
road was good and mostly through
dried swamp close grown with trees.
at didn't take us long to get ac-
ouainted i'm Horton Center. The glad
hand was put out everywhere, and
there was u jug or u ticker back OF
every one. Alter a couple of hours OF
mis- welcoming business somebody sug-
gested a little game of draw just to pass
the time, and tall lanky man said
that as il was pretty warm, we might
as well 20 TO Ills house and play on
his piazZer, as he called It. After the
game had been going on half an hour
OF so. lobe and l lust looked at each
other. 1t was the softest, easiest out
NJ we had ever struck. The other four
PLAYERS lust threw their money away
making the biggest fool bets anybody
ever saw. Fact is, they couldn't have
been worse poker players IL they hadn't
seen Il card before in their lives. by
o'clock at night we had all the money
in sight, and Tobe said we'd better be
starting out, as It was a long walk
home. and the moon would be getting
low down before we could reach there
The tall, lnnky fellow begged us to stay
all night, but we had to refuse. We
started home for Cutters store through
the woods iust loaded down with cash
and pretty near four hundred and fifty
winner, when all Of a sudden we heard
dogs baying behind us. We both recog-
nized hounds lobe said he reckoned
somebody was coon hunting, but
thought 1t was n mighty funny time
gan to tell about n coon hunt he had
gone on once. when he broke Off.
'Pard.' he hollered. get a tree: those
dogs are after u.s.
''I Skinned up one and Tobe took an
other, and in two minutes the meanest
lot Of blg-mouthed, NANCY hounds YOU
ever saw were cavorting around under
us bowling like hyenas. We both hoped
somebody would come and nretyy soon
somebody did. 1t was the tan, Ianly
man. He came I'm and ouieted the
dogs. and then leaned on n Ionr-bnr-
relied gun and proceeded TO address
us He said he was mighty pnined TO do
what he had to do. but the fact was
Horizons Center had been victlmized
ever slice the railroad came by poker
playing strangers. who came I'm and
cleaned up ali the ready money in the
we had returned Inc cordial hngnitniitv
extended to MS in the same cruel yyav
We had gone into n came with the
mayor, the town marshal the lending
merchant and tho county freasurer ind
staked the other gentlemen with ali
the available public funds and We had
skilfullv-he would NOT snv dishonstlv--
won them ali. II was his duty, there
fore to reouire Ms to hand the winnings
and any other small CHANGE we ,nigbt
have about us bacl The DOES were
not hungry. but yyould get 90 after
awhile. and when we col tired IN rooet.
ing and came down thev ,nigbt an
pease their nppeiife with ns. Res,des
there were some other cItizens Of JTor.
ton Center back in the wooda who
could picl; n 'noss,,n, o,,t NJ me bIcbost
tree in the bottoms on the daritest
night in the wear DID we sbeiI ontS
We ala, we threw fhe ,nonev we nod
down on the ground and the tan IanI,v
man gathered n nm Then he said
GOODNIGHT and 1yhist1ed 10 tha dogs
'Youll have n snfe road 70 C;uffer,s,
he remarked in a hartv tome ns he
moved on. and mebbe II might he ss
well eff You didn't menfjon tl,ia here
little epnyzide when Won vits thar,
lobe and left Arkansas in three davs
and / reckon some Arkansas cotton
planters are waiting for ,Is 10 come for
their cro,r, 80. !,