The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04
POET IN POKER GAME.
HOW HE MADE DIsCoRD WITH HIS
STOCK OF RHYMED WISDOM.

Pointers Given In Verse-These Have
Disquieting Eject on West Side
and the Poet Finally Captures All
the Cash.
From the Chicago r-Ocean.
The last meeting of The West Side Po-
ker Club for the summer season broke up
with unusual excitement. Next to
ringing in cold deck moth
ing so demoralizes a quiet game of draw
a poet. This one was sneaked in by the
doctor, who introduced him as 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 the
cover off new pack, heres where friend
ship ceases"
The farmer was about to deal when the
doctor said he wanted to cut the cards.
The poet, who had not opened his lips as
yet, murmured:
when the dealer has shuffled,
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 large plug of navy. The
farmer dealt with an absent expression on
his mobile features.
when asked 10 cut the cards, they say,
Colonel Jack Chinn of Old Kentuck,
Would draw his knife as if distract,
Observing: Well, here goes, for luck. "
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sacred look. He sat next the plumber, who
had anted white chip, and, having the
first say, said he'd go out. The hotel-keep-
er thought a while, and made it five more
TO draw. The doctor raised him five, and
the farmer, Juggling pensively at his chin
whiskers, whooped it 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 a
slandstill. The plumber, holding the age,
just Clipped along.
zone card" said the hoteI-keeper, where
at the doctor looked puzzled and said,
zones enough for me-" and the farmer an
nounced he'd try one, to be In the fashion.
The plumber had taken two. As they pick
ed up their hands the poet remarked, shy
ly;
do not look at your cards before
You've counted five; else. If you should
Discover you have Tess or more
You 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-keeper drew queen
which, if he had stood pat, as he should
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 suffering in silence on small
full, and when the hotel-keeper showed his
kings and the post norton was in prog
ress the poet calculated:
-Four kings or four deuces or any old
fours
Make a hand that good poker player
adores."
MARY, Jane, and Louise weren't much
good that time, sighed the doctor. But
his friend from town rebuked him, say
ing:
IF a queen could attend, do you think it
would please her
To hear three queens called Mary, Jane,
Assuredly not. A good man, when ne
means
Three queensland he has them, should
call them three queensr'
The farmer was gradually writhing him
eelf into a state of mind which would have
been dangerous to the poet. But this mis-
guided man needed not the omen, and ex-
amined with interest three mines and two
Fights, which the plumber had unavail-
ingly dallied with for a brief interval.
you didn't get the nine Of diamonds"
he soliloquized, called the curse of Scot
land 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"
'fWho gave the nine Speaker that name?"