Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-30

and chewed renectively on the fra
grant bit.
There was dreamy, far.away look
In bis eyes that made the barkeepeT
wonder If some new exercising ward
for the ponies had been established
near the Back RaE. and the sporting
man had been the first outsider TO
End Il.
Nav" he said briefly, but I've
heard OF II. That's where the beans
come from. amt IL. and they have
brown bread for breakfast, Sundays
Forget it," said the other. Them
things come over with Christopher Co.
lumbus in the Msyhower, but there is
A new Boston, now. And say! You
want TO put on binders. and drop
your toe-weights when you strike the
town. IL you ever do 20 there.
II don't often Kick on any PROPOSE.
ton this side of a stroke OF lightning
but had three days and nights up
there last week. an got so busy try.
ing to keep up with the procession
that was almighty glad to get back
here in New York. where could sit
down by the side Of the road some
where in the Tendcrloin and pick dan.
delions and think for a while, and
listen TO the rhythmic thrubs in the
back Of my head.
Say. I've seen people in little old
New York that set themselves up for
capable drinkers, and there ar" sore
few Of en- that get away with the
proposition. but the best of EN- Is only
IL for entry in the primary grade In
Boston. It's the climate, ! reckon.
They say it's just rs well to be
dead as TO be sober over there, whca
the east wind blows. And no sober
man ever yet walked from the postOf.
fee TO the Boston Common without
losing his way.
But the great feature OF Boston is
a thing they call draw poker. They
got me into a game there, the night
before hunted out the return ticket,
az say it's the greatest game ever.
II thought learned poker on the
Mississippi when | was walIin rounl
10 min feathers. an after I'd taken q
f"w more lessons out in the Rockies
when vas a little older took a whirl
in Chicago Say. all that was just cle.
m"utery. so to speak.
L got the rudimonts all right. an
picked up enough science to lay down
four tens after the dealer had drawn
one card But when | reached New
York an saw the possibilities Of the
game. realized that 1t was up to me
to do some actual hard study before
| could tackle the hcavywelghts.
Somehow got the notion after a
few months that was the real thing.
A man that can hold on to his own
chips and pick up few blues besides
In New York game is apt to feel
Chesty If he really knows what they
call poker nut West
You can say what you ike ao0yt
New York hot air. Some OF ii Is pre.t! J
gassy. I'll admit; but when it comes
10 blowing about the local brands o
poker. there amt no Western man
that has any peep comm. He may
win money when he plays out West
but II he wants real strenuous game
be can't do better than to tackle some
O the grown-up players in this town
That is, thought so till went t.
Boston An. say. that's far enough
East for me. It's me for the peaks az
prairies IL leave town again.
II don't know what they might &C
TO me ii got caught in Maine or Nova
Scotia. Kind o seems like the further
East you 20 the better you find OuI
what you don't know about draw polk
er an I'm free TO admit that I'm dis
couraged.
Il think Id rather go back an play
With the men that haven't had all tbs
advantages Of a higher education
Say, three-card monte and old maiC
rank in the one class alongside o
draw poker in Boston. My. but it's ;
spirited game.
81 was talking about 1t with cal
driver down near what they call tn,
daypo. Honest, they do. The littl,
kdiiets that sell newspapers on tn,
streets in Boston wear eyeglasses anC
say 'daypo.
This cab driver was n decent sort
and when told him had the coupon
left that was good for one frst.clasi
passage home, he told me | was play
ing in large luck. His trouble wa,
that be had married Boston woman
and bought Boston horse, and h,
couldn't get anybody to take them OF
his hands.
u mentioned poker to him and h.
sort o. sighed and said he reckoned /
vas the malignant influence of ethica
culture that had operated toward tn,
evolution of more intricate systea
in the game than was known els
where. You wouldn't think a cab dr
yer would say that, now, would you
We'll, he would, after he learned IN
way round Boston.
He wasn't surprised that wa
broke. All he wondered at was ii
return ticket.
There was seven of us playing
and say, there was two other me-
wanted to butt in, | kicked on thai
and asked 'em what they'd do for tn
draw. and they said they had a dec
with eleyens and twelves in IL. Tho
had too for I uauy anI th.,,