The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-04

feeling about the northeast wind. It's a super.
stition. VI course. but It influences play. f.know
nman Who Is q SIR buyer Mh9 SlW"y, sits on
very lucky fellow. The old shore superstition
about going under a ladder bringing bad luck
does not apply az rcn, but ] know n man who
Will not play Il he happens to count the number
OF steps coming up the e9mpaniohway from
Ono timpea T"u went across with a man
from ST.. Louis who was an excellent
hnnd ut poker-trst class re wa away tan.
talk wa. part Of his game guess, though he
never changed his voice, Or tried to say ANYTHING
TO mlslead tho rest. He won steadily going
over. and on the way back. as we happened TO
come together. ! saw him rnkinu In my shtllines
lie second day, a %"ii c walked tie deck, some.
thing WINS done that called for the hIpninE OF a
angular hoe in the GENRE from bis pocket lie
gave 1t n tlip and away, IL went overheard.
That night no lost steadily, and for the rest OF
tho voyage would not play. lie had lost his
" What Ia the most remarkable fact you have
II cannot say that there is any one very re.
markable fact in my experience. saw a game
a remarka6le 6lnf. There were six in the game,
and he was the age on a ,two-and.siK limit.
When a, jnck pot cane-al the interesiine
way he got four clubs. including the Ming and
Jack. the other card being jack OF hearts, He
tho nfth man, but he raised them back and
stood PAT; The other ~" drrw two cards each,
Inc lOTtlnn0 man Det tne Ililllu, anu thCn OF tle
others raised him. Then he dropped his cards
on the table all face up, but with his hand over
the nfth card. and raised them the limit again,
whereat they drew out. supposing he had IA
flush.
"in another remarkable jack pot I was the
second from the age, who opened the pot.
There were six in this game. too, BY the way.
| had two jacks. an ace, And two spots. OF
course. / drew to tho Jacks and got the other
Jacks and n king. Well. no one could have
either four aces or four kings, and since
all the others had drawn two or more cards.
there could not be a straight flush. so | settled
down with tho idea that | had q cinch. Directly
all dropped out but the age, and he kept raising
inc to tho limit. SO ! showed q big pile uf chips
over toward the pot and dropped off the shil.
linGs us fast as called for until finally he called
me. II was one chance in q million, but he Ind
the four queens.
lin general | should say that the most inter
esting features of gambling at sea are in the
facts that about everybody bets and that the
bets are usually of small amount. Why. women
and children go into the pools on the days run.
l have observed that dice leave the losers in the
/ H is ifhSS16tT. tSe&s : Ne M ssS- 49, 1E
to irritatc and rasp the soul Is whist, for of
course there is always one In the game who Is a
dingcd fool, and his blunders simply ruin the
pleasure of the rest. | once saw n man so
worked mp over the loss OF ten or twelve shp-
ltngs in an afternoon Mt whist that he couldn't
eat his dinner. but when on reaching port hts
partner met him with a doleful tale of n Dig
speculation that had gone wrong to the extent
of $4,000 he laughed at his partner for max
ing such n long face over it,"