The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1900-05-24
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
. 1 FREAKY THING Is LUCK
Z The Case OF Hennessy W hose
Luck Was Stolen.
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nIIIOUDE'T that bump you'll"
wv murmured the faro dealer,
rtaectiycly, as thin pock-marked
man passed the. corner of Broadway
and Thirty-eighth street.
aWhat's that?" asked the race fol-
lower.
aSeein' you throw the trapped coun-
tenance up against Hennessy. Say,
wasn't you feedin' him couple years
aso when seen you down i New Or
leans?"
aSure!" said the race man.
aAnd now you throw him down."
'sThat's right"
"Woman?''
.'Not on your life."
"What then?"
.Say," said the race man, "d'y' ever
hear how me and Hennessy come to-
gether, an what happened to both of
us?"
"Nope."
"Well, it's queer story, and it goes
to show what freaky thing luck is.
We couldn't ever trot double. If Hen
Messy is flying high, I'm cold broke,
an il I'm a winner, Hennessy's on the
pork. Besides, he could never stay
square with friend nohow."
@Well, how about it?" asked the
faro man.
1T was after the season closed at
Brighton Beach in '97. Hennessy had
been up against it for four long,
warm, weary months. He'd been
playin' everythin' in the business
from favorites to 100 to shots, an
he couldn't win breakfast money
I'd been foll'in' the western circuit
Al summer an had nursed up quite
wad, an when I come back to New
York the first man I run against il
Hennessy. He was comm out of 9
Sixth avenue beanery. where they sell
coftee for two cents a cup, an say, Il
ever any man looked like a bad nickel
Il was Hennessy. I'd seen him when h.
was rollin' high out in California
an had few drinks with him then
IN some guy had told me that Hen
messy was man at never stood BY
his friends. But say, was sorry t.
ZEE man down on his luck, an I say
TO myself, I'll help him to take ,
brace. So / fits him out from feet t.
hnish, an then promises him IS ,
DAY for two weeks to play the ponie
me layin' off awhile to rest.
Well, after a few days Henness,
begins to do business again, and in
side Of month had nursed togethe
4 little wad of about three hundre,
dollars.
Now, says l, we're of to New Or
leans
An we went an started into tn
game the next day. But Hennessy'
mex had changed again, and ther
want anything he could win. Meth
g OF Us could make it out. Henness
aid he's gone into the theater wit
nls umbrella up, an I guess p'rhap
mats what it was, but anyway, h
Nas dead one from that on, and i
TWO days he didn't have but $50 in tn
world. Then told him to stick t
me. and follow my plays, and he die
and in two days had lost 81, 700 an
hl OF Hennessy's $50 was gone. So
gave Hennessy $40 to start fresh o
ma told him to lay his own none
sn keep away from me. So he di
end lost every nickel of it befor
night.
Well, it was up to me to take car
him. So he goes of and gets
tsie more somewhere, and ever
ornin' he's round to my room fe
sfeakfast money and I'm givin' hil
70 feed himself and play witt
lat kept up the whole wintt
.nfough. me givin' him So every da,
ossldes drinks an cigars, an laundr
'ls, and every now and then tel
ser to get his stuff out that he
4ocked. But / guess it was luck
because I lived high everv mil
se OF the time and quit the gan
sAs0 better than when Hennessy ar
e started south.
guess Hennessy thought Il
Ane thing, cause he comes 'rour
morning and says if I'll stake hi
little roll he'll quit me and tt
- iuck on the western circuit. So
ese MN $500 and he started Cor Ch
= y wasn't long before We heal