The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-28
POET AT THE K GAME.
MADE DIsCORD, roo. WIN mrs
STOCK OF RH TINED WISDOM.

S AAAN
STOCK OF RHTMED WISDOM.
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DsaoraIIzlnR Eject on n Quiet Game Of
Draw by the Introduction of y Poet
Points About Poker Ia Verse Revolt
al the Players and triumph Of Poetry.
BusHKrLL. Pa. AuG. 2T.-The last meeting Of
the Bushkill Poker Club for the summer season
broke up this morning with unusual excite
ment. Next to ringing In a cold deck. nothing
40 aemoralizes a quiet game OF draw as a poet.
This one was snoaked in by the doctor. who In
troduoed him rs n friend from town.
But" added he. as he sat down at the table
where the farmer, the plumber and the hotel
keeper were already breaking tho cover OF n
new pack. here's where friendship ~ceases.'
The farmer was about 10 deal when the doc
tor said he wanted to cut the cards. The poet.
who had not opened his lips us yet. murmured:
when the dealer has shunaed.
In every ones sight.
The cards must be cut by
The man to his right"
This ratified the doctor. who pulled his knife
and cut a large plug OF navy. The farmer dealt
with an absent expression on his mobile fea-
lures.
when asked to cut the cards they say
Colonel Jack Chinn OF old Kentuck.
Would draw his knife. A. II distract.
Observing: Well. here goes. for luck"
said the poet. g~lancing at his hand with n
scared look. He sat next the plumber. who had
anteed a white chip. and. having the first say.
said he'd go out. The hotel keeper thought a
while and made it i've more to draw. The doc
tor raised him five. and the farmer. Juggling
pensively at his CHM hiskers. whooped II Just
one five more. The poet looked glad. and the
hotel keeper said =" Once MORE and Again"
until he had bet the doctor and the farmer TO
IA -l.
Just Clipped along.
"0ne card" said the hotel keeper. whereat
the doctor looked puzzled and said. "One's
enough for me-" and the farmer announced
he'd try one. to be in the fashion. The plumber
had taken two. AS they picked up their hands
the poet remarked shyly:
do not look at your cards before
You've counted Ave; else, IL you should
Discover you have less or more.
Your hand is dead. however good"
The hotel keeper. having had four kings all
the time, bet the limit. which was promptly
raised by the doctor. who held three queens
cold. and again whooped up by the farmer. who
had had three jacks to go in on. The hotel
Ike eper drew q queen. which. il he had stood pat
as he shout have done. would have given the
doctor four queens. The doctor drew a jack.
which would have given the farmer four jacks.
They all three bet freely. the plumber suffer
ing in silence on a small full. and when the ho-
tenn was In progress the poet calculated:
-Four kings or four deuces or any. old fours
Make . hand that n good poker player sdores."
MARY. Jane, and Louise weren't much good
that time" sighed the doctor. But his friend
from town rebuked him. saying:
IF queen could attend do you think itWould please
To hear three queens called Mary. Jane. and
Assurediy not. good man. when he means
Three queensland he has them. should call them
three Queensl"
The farmer was gradually writhing himself
into a state of mind which would have been
dangerous to the poet. But this misguided
mar heeded not the omen; and examined With
the plumber had unavailingly dallied with for
You didn't get the nine Of diamonds he
~soliloquized. called the curse Of Scotland
No man knoweth why
Three mines are seldom winners. When
You're raised on them don't raise again.
Why? No one knows the why or whence;
The facts proved by experience"
Who gave the nine specker that name?"
asked the hotel keeper. asthe plumber %suilenly
THE order for the massacre Of Glencoe was
written on the back OF q. nine OF diamonds"
They can It the curse of Scotland, ;, said the
poet. 81 but I'm blest il / know why. TIL curse
that clinRs to the nine spot is the fact that the
ten is high; But what a narrow escape you
held three jacks and the mar on your left got a
pair Of black Fights in the draw. You know
%Iss ! hand 5sSs' , =: the sa ,eg % e : pair e S Sf s11sf {, stf E S,.,.,,
The holder 4 frequently destined e lose
This 80 aggravated the plumber. who had
never come In touch with a live poet before.
that he discarded out OF turn, whereupon the
bard picking up a pair of Jacks himself NUT
Don't discard, don't come in.
Don't pass out of turn.
That's the hardest but v~italest
Lesson TO learn"
The hotel keeper took a red chip out Of the
jackpot for the kitty. which he started in the
poets hat. that gentleman promptly acquiescing
with:
This Is Kitty, lovely Kitty.
Though she's neither wise nor witty.
How the men around her hoverl"
1T is a pity" said the doctor. who was some
Tneae about al Sn the GoriGi Of draw inSs pc poE a2 the the S EPeSt
American game WHICH Dewey's men have
aIrSSd sh iGt! TiIes's In n P foFto R seaftf L Is in essen Sem
under the Stars and stripes.T
limit, For all we know Shakespeare may
have had II In mind more than once.
"'DrAW. Bardolph.' cried great FalstaG; throw
rS Tns t fss1 di! intS teH f i6nR Sao.
When, wen hope. queens wore flannel"
an whoop it Just once" said the hotel
keeper. who had on 2 new suit Of clamorous
the poet. too. made good. remarfinG:
Don't wear new clothes. lest from your play
Your mind be now and then distract,
And some one in q Rarb less gay
Slip in and steal the pot away"
As the draw progressed the poet. who had
taken two. observed. with considerable salts
faction that he had got In the other pair Of
Jacks. The hotel keeper did not better his
three sevens. The farmer, having taken one
20 four hearts, found himself the proud posses
sor OF a killer. and swore. The doctors friend
mildly demonstrated that the essentials to the
great American game are:
A banker. ready TO redeem
ALI chips that have been sold by aim;
A modicum OF cash and luck,
An even temper and q buck"
The doctor soon went out.
I've played Vanderbilt long enough. said
he. I'm going on the Gould plan for a while"
What's the Gould plan, doe said the