The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-06-09

you a SHOW u SSt SOul6rOI II back.
o US WRITTEN ON SHIRT
ITO my surprise I got the queen. lack
| and ten of clubs IN the draw, making a
royal flush. There we're number Of
strong hands out against it. including
one set of tours and a full. Eyerybody
! of course, sized up my hand as being no
! better than a straight aor a flush and
thought 1 was burning up my money
when 1 kept meeting all raises. was
| too foxy to do any of the raising my
| self so long as the nefgnbors with .ha
| full and the set of fours were fitting one
another. By simply meeting their bets it
| was easy to conceal the real strength Of
my own hand and make them think T
| had got tangled up to an extent where
! it was imperative TO protect nv interest
| in the pot against possible bluffing. When
the play was over and the hands shown
down there was an awful howl Fleming,
! who is good fellow and a clever card
player, was so angry at what he called
fool luck that he tore up the cards and
kicked his chair over.
by this time everybody at the table
was deep in my debt. + know it is bad
policy to trust anybody in a poker game.
but in this case I felt easy, as | know
all the players intimately, and also kne,g
that everyone of them would pay up.
Fleming who sat at my right nand. owed
my shirt sleeve and wrcae an I o IL on
the cuff band This seemed to tfckl,.
the rest of the crowd, and, one by one.
my debtors inscribed the various amounts
ana their initials on my shirt 1t was
then after midnight, and the sultrv heat
had brought on L violent Thunderstorm
which made going home impossible. Tnan
somebody proposed getting rooms in the
hotel and going TT bed.
fai
said Mr. Carter Why we've got people
sleeping on cots in the Railways, and I've
even given up my own room to sick
woman. That's why I'm sitting up in
this game-I've got nowhere to sleep
THE only thing to do was u continue
the game which 1 did by sell ng oft my
chips and taking the I US Of the
players on my shirt, even the bosom CT
which was by this time mark Up with
the Acknowledgements of ind BIT dness.
Carter was the only man in the party
| who did not ask for credit, but this was
only because he had the hotel It'll close
at hand to draw on. My gooa luck con-
tinued and kept on raking in the chips
and selling them out again Until the en-
tire front of my shirt, as well as the
sleeves, was covered with l o US When
the game broke up at breakfast time the
garment bore evidence OF 800 f=fng DE
me by five of the gentlemen with whom
1 had passed the evening. Sunday fore
noon 1 went home, and being utterly
tagged out, threw the soiled shirt in one
corner of the room and craWled into bed
after squaring myself with ~ wife by
giving her money for a new costume
GARMENT AS A CLEARING ROUSE.
Monday morning I got up early, took
bath, put on clean linen and went
down town. L tried to read the morning
paper, but was bothered by the tn ugat
that I had forgotten something. About
the middle of the day it came 20 me
like fash that L had neglected to take
care of my 500 shirt, and, calling eabby,
I had him drive me home on the dead
run Bursting into the house l surprfssd
my wife with the inquiry:
" Where's that Shirt?
What shirt% was the agg awaiting
question she flung back at me.
:" My 500 shirt, I reared That shirt I
took off yesterday. It's worth $780,
by this time my wife was sure I was
crazy, and looked at me in a distressed.
mournful sort of way. Without giving her
time to take any steps to have me locked
up, dashed down to the laundry and
found the hired girl just in the act of
Sous1ng my shirt in the suGs Csrahbino
the garment from her, while she went up2
stars to notify the madam that I was
as Iuny as bedbug, carried the shirt.
.
ana 2! saw with great relief that the o
Y s We're still legible, having been writ
Ten with an tndelible pencil. Hanging
the shirt on line in the sun I sat down
or the grass and watched it until it was
cry, when rolled it uD In q bf-nfIl,,
&c feok 1t down town, and placed it careful
~ IN a safety deposit box in the vaults
under the First National bank. The next
gay one of the debtors came to Hquidate
MS debt, and I took him over 10 the
safety deposit vault with me TO see the
erasqre made. 1t was week before all
the debts We're Cancelled. Every time one
OF my creditors came to the office to set.
TIE | would take him over to the var1Its
ana marx off the amount of his payment.
by by the time all the payments wers made
the garment was in pro$s~ bad condition
nut took it home and kept is as a
souvenir until last spring, when a fresh
q; aofnestIc. Ignorant of it's history, used
It 70 scrub windows. and one. Of the most
ttSaluaole shirts ever worn by mortal man
thus came to an ignoble end"
That's a regular kokaIoopa.' - er,1nt,d
the debtor of the party, but then one
does experience strange things occa
sionally when the brand of dope is