Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1899-06-10


will go according to your judgment,
and with that he showed up his chips
to the center of the table. The rest
of the gang were wild with glee as
they saw the guileless manner of that
good man. They took drink all
around and then s.raised' him as a
matter of course. Then the parson
went down into his inside pocket and
fished out roll of bills, which he ex-
planned had been left him by good
Christian aunt who had gone to the
better land, whose last admonition
had been that he should spend it in
doing good. And then the gang
winked at each other and remarked
that the parson was gettin' the fever.
Then the parson slowly skinned a
hundred dollar bill off his roll and
murmuring something that sounded
like prayer, showed it out into the
center of the table. The fellow who
had four queens threw in three fifty
dollar bills as did the man with three
jacks and pair of tens. The man
with four kings waltzed in with a
couple hundred dollar bills and the
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pet out. The parson groaned and APP
peared to be murmuring another
prayer as he unrolled four hundred
dollar bills and put them with tremb-
ling hand on the pile of currency. The
man with the kings looked at the par
son with sharp look but he could de-
tect nothing in his cOuntenance eX-
cept look of shame and grief ming
led with the excitement of man who
was engaged in something to which
he was not accustomed. For mo-
ment there was a look of remorse
passed over the countenance of the
leader of the gang and then he said
under his breath: s'It seems like a
pity to rob the - fool, but if don't
do it somebody else will and then. he
raised the parsons bet by two hun
-dred more. The parson now seemed
wildly excited, but there was with it
still that look of grief and shame as
he mumbled to himself. ''They said
that two pair were no good" And
he went down in his inside pocket
and fished up another five hundred
dollars, which he slowly laid upon the
table, remarking that this was about
all lie had with him. Some of the
more tender hearted of the gang were
touched with the trusting simplicity
of the parson. They declared that it
was shame to rob a tenderfoot that
way, even if he was a - preacher
Even the man with the four kings
hesitated but the temptation was too
strong and he gathered all his availa-
BILE funds and also the available funds
of his companions and ''called" the
man of God.
And then the guileless shepherd
awkwardlv spread his four aces on the
table and raked in the ''pot'' with
which he filled the apartments of his
clothes.
That night as the man who had
held four kings dealt to him by the
parson, called for drinks at the 'sRed
Light bar and had the same marked
on the slate, he remarked that he had
been up against all sorts of games.
but that he would be - if he would
who would open a Jackpot with
prayer.
Some way when we read the account
of the opening of the mine in West
ern Kansas with prayer it recalls the
story of the parson and the gang that
had fun with him.
Of course we don't want to intimate |
that the individuals who are selling
the stock in this Trego county mine |
will have the same sort of fun with |
the people who buy the stock that the |
parSon did with the men who suppos- |
ed they were taking him in-Mail |
and Breeze.