The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-10-30

When tSeTe w ss3 $500 In The pot | got 70
the end Of my chips, and, as II was table
could be bought during the playing OF a hand.
ehuckins down my three bullets. and was tx
~ Hold on thers a minute said the men with
the three fours-as / tho~ught-when he saw
Sasal ESSSch from fS one ne &c h I've: a apSdS &c sSt sS { RlsS ne &c
cards up IN their order on the table
lot Of fS c1s auS wEoarsds.anldd' just then I looked be-.
hind tho chair Of the winner and caught the
eye Of that deg: U there wasn't z gIeam OF
back at me for ten straight seconds. as much
as to say. You didn't think I'd dish you In
in 'front.' Of the fireplace, ,p!unked himself
down, aud that was the finish OF that, four.
h handed sSod S ON. o, th sn sCr tf fof de i sq pSst 81 t SSsss
told the jays Of q forgotten cngaeomenJ., and
$4,000 out Of those three Jays. and burned I
] didn't quit more'n. $1,000 loser on account
VI %h saa ! S had l e4' them mat tS TV'y away SsSf from Inc when
lSW r L NJ SI 1@Ss g 3 sbG b sC sinb gish i z sq bis li HyS;
game OF crooked. steering, but you can gamble
that l cut out the clubbing SO far as he, was
side Of a week or so, and he never did me dirt
or, CALLING, the turn after that.
St. Nc ToS aRa fhS SSE SoT Sa S0y shat ec hSnHaf about 6esgt
three years ago. taking II OF easy ones In. COM
Portable hunks: when l STACKED up ngol5st .
young. ones that looked ripe for pluckinG. /
and the the. mutt! was in r"i Great form. Won One o., tRc;
good things-the one that got INTO ne hole
t SGH5IsS than : Ers AM %,S q 1ss q ~ eSe meta alter sS he he
had been stacking up. a bad loser. against our
game Tor ten days or 50. but there wasn't g
Seemed see aeH to iIke sSS watch the DOGS dr9ubober.nesSS.
Ing Ing. a G,atS.s. nd 1, r - n ma T. when a,maI he VA, Has m d5SD,
Of the dog with unusual intentness.
play draw said he to me. and 1 was begin.
on looking as. moon-faced and easy, as usual
and losing right along. though / couldn't help
NOTICING how carefully he watched the moves
The next night. when we again sat down at
the ss% PsS H. | again SSH on nG tic JoG that @o the bys SSdInSS
stayed. when I fell out after the draw. and that
took big hunks out of the other two young fell
i6Sw,Us7:: ! couldn't quite get ne next TO- this this the the
came around. and 1. only having eight high.
kept out of it,, One Of the other young fell
lows opened the DOT. the man next to him
been watching mydog so carefully. raised the
both Of 'em before the draw. 1t vas q good,
and stayed in. They bet around for fifteen
minutes. and then the Slob who had been
Btudy1nR the mutt.waS,calleQ by. DOtn OF tnen,
and beat them both out with his queen full on
SKIES, thought that was kim o queer. es-
pecially in. view Of his earnest study Of my
poodle, and so / got cold feet in order to have
chance to think the thing over. Oddly, enough.
the Notwithstanding dub got cold feet at
the same time, and was out on the street With
me a little while later. We had walked a block
or SO. Ginning, when he gives me q dig in the
stats, and says he. grinninR:
Great dog, that, OF you're
II turned around and sized him UT.
" Pretty fair mutt said l..
!" Only thing about him is went on this
soft guy. that you wouldn't think knew
the difference between sand and Stag. he
wants to change his code. It took me a week
tn get next to 1t, but l had It safe tonight, all
right. I'm only $1,000 ahead on the nights
play. which makes me $500 more than even.
You want to teach the mutt new business be-
fore some other duck that looks as much like
z dead one as | do comes along; tumbles to
Of . good bundle; By the way, he wound up.
the rest Of the litter2 I'd like to have a
b1other:of him. Queer how he got onto the
Yes, very" replied the man who had
doubted the fox terriers possession OF any in
t~elliROnce,