Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1896-12-10
TROUBLES OF THE BowsERs.
They Essay Friendly Game of Poker
With Characteristic Results.

With Characteristic Results.
"Well, by George!" exclaimed Mr..
Bowser, as he sat reading his paper
the other evening, "but they served
that man just right"
"What is it, dear?" asked Mrs. Bow
ser.
'Man' and wife in Indiana sat down
to a game of poker at their own fire.
side, and because she won dollar off
him he broke her neck. The people
gathered and pulled him up to limb,
and the Coroner wouldn't even hold
an inquest on the body. Isn't it queer
how some husbands act?"
"Y-yes," replied Mrs. Bowser, look
ing anxiously around for an excuse to
leave the room.
"rhe idea that he shonld break her
neck because she held the best handi
Hanging was too good for him. / was
wishing only this afternoon that you
knew how to play poker"
"I-I do" replied Mrs. Bowser,
though she bit her tongue the next IN
slant for her foolishness.
"You do! Why, I didn't suppose
you ever saw poker chip. Been
learning to gamble without dropping
me hint, eh? Just laying low to give
me a surprise party?"
Mrs. Bowser should never have ad-
mitted that she had even heard of the
game of poker. There had been a
family row because she had beat Mr..
Bowser at fox and geese-another be-
cause she got the best of him at check
ers-a regular riot because she laid
him out at euchre. She should have
gone upstairs or downstairs for 10
minutes and let the matter pass out of
his mind. While she was lamenting
her bad diplomacy Mr.. Bowser got up,
with beaming smile on his face, and
exclaimed:
"Well, what luck! I've got pack
of cards and box of poker chips on
the hall tree. thought might drop
over and beat Taylor out of $15 or
800, but as I came in he said he
wouldn't be home this evening. Wen
just have a little game all by our
selves"
T-don't feel we'll this evening""
stammered Mrs. Bowser.
"O-ho! see! Afraid to play against
me, eh? That little excuse won't go
down, however. You said you knew
how to play poker, and SO we will have
a game. Clear off the table and get
ready"
"Really, Mr.. Bowser, but my head
"Your head is all right, and pretty
near level. 1 don't expect you can
play for shucks, but we'll have little
fun out of it,"
1t was now too late for Mrs. Bowser
to get out of it, unless the house caught
fire, and they drew up to the table,
each took dollars worth of chips,
and, as Mr.. Bowser dealt the cards, he
asked:
"Shall we have any limit on this
gamer"
'I don't care" she replied.
every well. We can bet the extent
of our pile. Ante up blue chip, and
we'n make 'em all jack-pots. You
must have jacks or better to open on.
Can you open?"
"I can."
"You can, eh? That's rather cur
ious. Want three cards, eh? And I'll
take one. What do you bet?"
"1'wo blue chips"
"You do, eh? Didn't you see that I
drew only one card? Aren't you
player enough to know that held a
four flush or straight or two pairs?
This is no baby game, Mrs. Bowser!"
"I'll raise it four blue chips!" she
replied.
"Well," he said, after glancing at
her for half minute, "you can take
the pot, but look out for me! could |
have raked in the coin, but I'n wait
and drop you with a cold thud. I
pass"
81 can open it again." she said.
"You can? Well, it takes fool for
luck, they say. I want two cards this
time. Ah-ha! Mrs. Bowser, bet five
blue chipsl"
"And / raise you my pile.'
"What! You raise me?" he shouted.
"Couldn't you tell by my draw that
held up threes, and isn't it likely that
caught one more of the same kind?
You don't seem to know the gamer"
Nevertheless, I raise you,' she
said.
"But how can you do it? You don't
think you are playing jackstraws, do
you? As You are woman, I'll give
you chance to back down-just this
one chance"
sI don't want it.n 4
sThen take the consequences!
There's my hand-three aces! Irake
in-.n
"Hold on. Mr.. Bowser-I have a |
full house-see!"
"Woman!n he exclaimed in a whis- |
per, as he laid down the cards, "do |
you realize what you are doing7 Even |
though this is family game, with no
money up, you ought to be ashamed
to cheat"
"Why-how did cheat?" she asked. |
sNever you mind, but II you do it |
again this game will cut short off. You
never could have got that hand in this
living world without skullduggery. |
III take another dollars worth of
chips and go on, but 1 want honest
playing. It's my deal. What do you
do?'i
'I pass"
"But don't. Drawing to fill . flush
are You? Well, I'll take three and
make a full house of it. Ah-umi Now
look out for me. / bet four chips.o
81 see 'em and raise you four more"
"What, you raise me when you
ought to know that I've got a full
house? You can't do it, Mrs. Bowser
you can't do it."
"How do / know that you've got a |