The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1898-02-12

NeeNO ~ iiiS pihtl lilG SlOIhllltll ileLi eSpt
off with his two thousand dollars, and
/ blieve I'll just draw In now and wait
for a bunch, No good buckin' agin'
streak o. bad luck, is there's?
well, I told him that, If my ten
year-old boy down In Sioux City
wasn't able to play poker any better
than he, Cato, could before he put on
long trousers and suspenders I'd send
him up to lumber camp until he be-
came of age. But Cato didn't pay any
attention to me, and when an awk-
ward. overworked- looking man,
dressed like a farmer, got aboard a
couple of landings below he struck up
an acquaintance with him. This far
mer-like looking man had pretty
keen pair of eyes in his head as l no.
ticed, and he had besides that yokelly
way of finding out about other peoples
business. So it didn't take him long to
dig 1t out of Cato that Cato was going
down to st. Louis to buy stock of
goods. The three of us were sitting on
the hind rail, whiting, when the far
mer-like looking man turns to Cato
and asks him:
Ever play ke-ards?'
/ Cato looked at me again ana heSlta-
ted.
oh, wunct in a WHILE saws he
| finally. and in a pair of minutes thew
were in the middle of a poker game.
The stranger asked me TO sit in of
course. but I could see that he wasn't
over-anxious to have me in the game
and l never played poker on steam
boats. stern-wheel or side-wheel any,
how.
| "Cato's hoodoo luck followed him
along in his game with the overvorked
looking man who seemed 70 me To
| have considerable of lob covering nm
natural sort of dizziness ne had in
handling a pack The two played for
three or four hours, the stranger an
nouncing occasionally that he was go
ing to get off at the next landing, So
to screen himself from the inference
that he was getting cold feet, probably.
He was about $1,000 ahead of Cato s
game when the boat was nearing his
landing.
"Hey to make it a lack not. now"
said he when the old stem wheeler, he
gan to wheeze and snort a little. prep-
aratory to stopping at the landing.
"He deaf the jack pot hand himself
and each man had $100 in the center Of
the table. 1t was to be sweetened for
$500 each time the deal passed. But it
didn't pass. Cato opened the pot for
$500 and his Remembering opponent
stayed. The betting swayed back and
forth until each man had $1,000 up, and
then the farmer-lilse looking man
called Cato. Cato had three eights.
The other man had three tens. The
other man stuffed the bills from the
center of the table into his overalls,
shook Cato quite effusively by the
hand. and went ashore.
+" Got enough?' saws to Cato when
/ the old sand bar bucker was once again
/ under way.
Saw saws he to me. we can't never
/ ledge a man nv his looks can We? That
man knows q. hull heap more'n you'd
think. don't he?
Got enough. Gator" r reneat for T
wanted to min him to the question in
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