Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-07
THE GAME WENT ON.
BlxBY TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY
WHILE PLAYING POKER.

BlXBY TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY
WHILE PLAYING POKER.
It Was About d Sad Incident With u
Humorous Side ut the Battle of Antlc-
tam low Game of Draw Generally
Takes All Fellows Attention.
Johnson was dealing when Bixby be-
gan to toll his yarn.
81 heard first rate story today, he
said. 1T may DO old to you boys, but
it was new to me. Colonel Jim Will
liams of kentucky was telling it, and
he got all tho points i'll, of course, much
better than can No colonel in Ken
lucky can tell better story than Will
liams. I don't claim to be much Of a
story teller myself, butt
"You in, BiXby?" asked Butler.
Bixby picked up his hands and played
pair of aces through to his loss. When
another player began shut1ling the cards,
Bixby resumed.
"Tbo story was something like this, !"
he said. "Iko Doolittlo was a private
in tho war; 1t was at the battle of An
tiotam. Flo had grudge against Lieu
tenant Forrest. A shell came along,
and =
caro- we going to play for anything
this time?" asked Johnson.
"Your ante, said Butler to Bixby.
Bixby antcd. "This shell came
along" no said "and took off Forrest $
foot. Ho saw Doolittlo near him, and
called to him to tako"-
"I'm III, - said Walters.
"Raise it couple of reds, " said But
Ter.
Bixby picked up three eights and
stood the raise He drow a fourth and
won the pot. Then it was his deal. He
shuflled leisurely us he said: "The shell,
it seems, took eff Forests foot, and he
called to Doolittle to carry him back to
the ambulance. Doolittle lifted him to
his shoulder and"-
81 had three kings to 60, said Will
liams, referring to his previous hand.
II had straight four flush, said
Johnson sadly.
"Doolittle lifted him up" continued
Bixby, "and"--
"Going to shuttle the spots off the
cards:" asked Butler.
Bixby started to deal "Doolittlo was
, carrying him back, he said, with his
head hanging over his shoulder, when
along come another she'll, and'-
"Givo me another stack, F." said Will
liams. He got it. While tho hand was
being played Bixby turned to Butler,
who had staid out like himself.
"Just them" said Bixby, another
, shell came along and took off Forests
head Doolittlc didn't see it..
"Where was this?" asked Butler po-
litoly.
"At Antictam, answered Bixby.
During the war, you know. Doolittle
was carrying Forrest back to the ambu-
lance He said he had his foot shot Off.
He was being taken back to the ambu-
lance He"-
Butler picked up three aces. I'm i'll
for minute he said Johnson raised
him ten. He saw it and raised back
Johnson staid, and they drew. Butler
bet ten and johnson raised him 90.
Butler hesitated and ran over his cards.
Then he looked long and searchingly at
Johnson. There was curious tensity
in the silence. Bixby turned to Will
liams.
'Doolittle, he said, didn't know
that Forests head had been shot of. y
"Why didn't he know it," Williams
ausently asked, watching the players.
He didn't see it, - explained Bixby
"He kept on carrying him back toward
the ambulance Private Garfield came
along and said to Doolttle:
What you carrying that for?'
It's Lieutenant Forrest, said Doc
little. Pm taking him back to the am
bulance.
what can they do with him in the
ambulance with his head shot off, asked
Private Garfield. -
"I call, I" said Butler, showing in his
chips. Johnson won, and Bixby picked
up the cards to deal again.
"Private Garfield, be said wanted
to know what they could do with him
there with his head shot off. His head !
shouted Doolittle. THE blamed fool
told NE twas his foot. %
BiXby pounded tho table and laughed
heartily His companions looked at
him wonderingly.
"Who was Doolittle?" asked John
son.
"Why, he was tho fellow that was
carrying Forrest
"Bixby's been telling a story, +" said
Williams.
"What's the point?" asked Butler.
"The point is, !" sid Bixby, "that
Doolittle thought his foot was shot off
when it was bis head. lie was carrying
him back ut tho time, and"-
"I'yo got six cards, u said Williams.
cts lnisdoal " said Johnson.
$50 on with your story" said Will
liams to Bixby.
eyes" said two or three others,
"give US the story.
"But I've got through with it, !" ex-
planned lixby.
ooh, have you?'' said Williams.
"That's good. New York Sun.
S.;o Drew the Line.
"When I was first married." sayx
tho Rnv DR. IInrimer. nnstnr of Ire.