The Houma courier. (Houma, La.) 1878-1939, 1900-06-02
AFREAKY THING IS LUCK
The Case OF Hennessy Whose
L.mok was Stolen.
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NA OUON-I thaG bump yOu!"
wv murmured the faro dealer,
refectively, as a thin pock-marked
man passed the corner of Broadway
and Thirty-eighth street
What's that?" asked the race fol
lower
'seein' you throw the trapped coun-
tenance up against Hennessy. Say,
wasn't you feedin' him couple years
ago, when I seen you down i New Or
Ieans?"
'Sure!" said the race man.
'And now you throw him down@'
'That's right"
''Woman?'
''Not on your life"
''What then?' 49,.
"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 a 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 if I'm winner, Hennessy's on the
pork, Besides, he could never stay
square with a friend nohow."
Well how about it9" asked the
faro man.
"It was after the season closed at
Brighton Beach in 90. 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 1 shots, an
he couldn't win breakfast money.
I'd been folPin' the western circuit
all summer an had nursed up quite
a wad, an when I come back to New
York the first man run against is
Hennessy. He was comm out of a
Sixth avenue beanery, where they sell
coffee for two cents a cup, an say, if
ever any man looked like a bad nickel,
it was Hennessy. I'd seen him when he
was rollin' high out in California,
an had a few drinks with him then,
an somc guy had told me that Hen
messy was man at never stood by
his friends. But say, was sorry to
see man down on his luck, an 1 says
to myself, I'll help him to take a
brace. So I fits him out from feet to
finish, an then I promises him IS a
day for two weeks to play the ponies
me layin' off awhile to rest.
''Well, after a few days Hennessy
begins to do business again, and in
side Of month had nursed together
a little wad of about three hundred
dollars.
Now says + we're off to New Or
leans
cam we went an started into the
game the next day. But Hennessy's
luck had changed again, and there
wasn't anything he could win. Neith-
er of us could make it out. Hennessy
said he's gone into the theater with
his umbrella up, an / guess p'rhaps
that's what it was, but anyway, he
was a dead one from that on, and in
two days he didn't have but $50 in the
world. Then 1 told him to stick to
me and follow my plays, and he did,
and in two days I had lost 81 200 and
all of Hennessy's $50 was gone. So 1
gave Hennessy $40 to start fresh on
and told him to lay his own money
an keep away from me. So he did
and lost every nickel of it before
night.
''WelI, it was up to me to take care
Of him. So he goes on and gets
little more somewhere, and every
mornin' he's round to my room for
breakfast money and I'm givin' him
So to feed himself and play with.
That kept. up the whole winter
through, me givin' him SO every day,
besides drinks an cigars, an laundry
bills, and every now and then ten
ner to get his stuff out that he'd
hooked. But I guess it was luck to
me, because I lived high eyerv uin-
ute of the time and quit the game
So 500 better than when Hennessy and
me started south.
II guess Hennessy thought the
same thing, cause he comes round
one morning and says if I'll stake him
10 q little roll he'n quit me and try
his luck on the western circuit. So I
cave him $500 and he started for Chi
eaqo. It wasn't long before we heard