Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1897-12-03
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Tom owned up y, s5gE5s X
And you look as II you Axere hit pretty
hard I suppose you werep' ),
'Middling hard, = says Tom. q / y ;$45
well, now Mrs. Tom went on, q be-
lieve that you just naturally love to gam
BILE; that you were born that way; that
you have passion for yenturing your
money just for the excitement the mental
stimulus Of it. Am rightY'
Tom dicked the ashes from his cigar in
. way that said Yes, & but he Kept still
well, : said she after pause. i've got
scheme. Gamble with me!'' 4.
Tom thought his wife was delirious
with anxiety, but the plan was 40 novel
and was 80 insinuatingly put that he
couldn't reject it. So he said, well,
Jimmy, I'll have to go you" lass2 iii
!, Well, this couple started their two hand
ed game of draw on the very next night,
and Tom said that from the very go off he
never had SO much fun playing cards in
his life. Not that his wife didn't know
the game. He had taught her the game of
poker soon after they were married, and
on his evenings at home they had often
played quarter limit game for the fun of
the thing. But 1t was so queer to be play
ing with his wife for really immense
stakes, as they did in all earnestness play
when the game was we'll under way, that
this Butte man relished the play enor-
8mously. He quit the faro banks altogether
and devoted all Of his spare time to the at,
tempt to beat his wife.
The little woman was not loser dollar
from the very first night they started play.
At the end of month, as Tom said him
sell, it seemed to be no longer question
- TO- which of the two would come out
ahead on g nights play, but simply q
question as to how much. be would lose.
AT the end Of six months his wife had
5000, 600 worth of his securities In her
compartment Of their safe deposit vault
. Loser said Tom about this time
Holy smoke, she doesn't know how to
Josef She II have me pauper before
know where am. And bluff! Say, she
bluffs me out Of my own jack, pots on eight
or ten high when there are thousands of
dollars in the pot. Then when conclude
to put stop to this bluffing and raise her
up to the ceiling by betting whole slathers
of money on really good hands happen
to hold she holds tours or straight flush.
There's no way know Of to get line on
the way q woman plays poker, but she's
got me 60 deep in the hole now that I've
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got to see the game through. 4. ses.s...
Well, at the end Of year this nervy lit
tie woman had not only captured all that
portion of her husband g income that had
formerly helped to enrich the green cloth
men Of Butte, but she had gathered In
about an even half Of his capital. 1t was
all his to manipulate and do business with,
but it was in her name. 1t took her an
other year to break him, but she made q
mighty slick job OF 1t at the end. 1t was
almost exactly two years to a day after
they had started the game when the inevi-
table night came on which this Butte man
had to. sail the sponge and acknowledge
that he was all up Each of them had on
q corner OF the table list OF securities
stocks, bonds and other properties, with
the money values noted, that they indi-
vidually owned, and they had devised !,
system Of checking this list off with Il
pencil as the securities were waKered IN
the progress of tho play Then at the end
of each week they would have . settling
day. s
On che night that she broke him fiat she
had been blufi;ng 80 lrrslstcntly that he
concluded he would call u halt to that sort
Of thing as soon as he got g good hand.
His opportunity arrived when he gave
himself three jacks and then another jack
on the draw. His list of securities beside
him was pretty well checked of by this
time, but he thought he had q good enough
hand to do . double or quits turn, and 90,
when he wv that his wife was inclined to
raise him IN the betting, he Just fired the;
whole list In Tie middle Of the table
II haven't got you beaten this time
Timmy." he said, ~ might a. we'll 70