The sun., 1902-01-26
HADrHB aI'LLBBY YOU" MANIA
A MAN on 4 TRAIN VINO MADE
WAGERS ON EVERYTHING.
what Seemed Worse TO the other Passen-
gers. Tie Had an Asgravatins Habit
Also OF BeinE Rigbt-Deviccs by Which
His Downfall was brought About.

Also OF BEING RIRbt-Deyfccs by Hhich
HIS Downfall was brought About.
did you ever cut the trail Of one Of those
fellows that want 20 bet you all the time
on any old thing, and particularly when
you open your face 10 make the simplest
kind OF assertion?" inquired the drummer
with the cotton wadding In his ears OF his
group OF hotel rotunda chair warmers.
They ali nodded their heads.
Hes worse'n the pleuro-mumps, sew
sral Of them said at once.
-Well we had him right and proper.
six days of him, on the run-back from
Portland. Ore, that I've just tai lied OF.
said the drummer with the cotton-plugged
ears. Il hope he's got bed TO sleep In
on this cold night.
Il don't think he meant bad, but when
he went right in to play all the numbe rs
and TO hunch his game, the sufferers SIM
ply had TO uncork a brace and swing onto
the firing line. But I'd feel unhappy II
thought that Door cuss didn't have s ONE
kind Of a shelter on this br-r-r-r-r night.
He got on at Portland and was travelling
10 this port Of entry alone. He was sawed
on. jerky little fellow. with a shrill. high
pitched voice that sounded like an axle
that needs the grease, a yallary, dyspe ptio
complexion. a stubby grayish mustac he
and much clothing and money.
He was the only occupant Of the smok-
ing compartment Of the sleeper when l
drifted in there for a draw about an nour
after the train left Portland. He was lean
Ing back in the best seat. with his feet cooked
UP on the second-best seat, and he was
smoking one of those Midway cigarettes
called Turks. that smell like a confiagra-
ton in feather factory. l pulled out a
cigar, took what he'd let me have In the
way OF a place TO sit down, and began TO
enjoy myself.
s'hainy,' he surprised me by saying in
his squeaky voice after I'd taken few
Yep, kind O.. I replied-it was coming
out here In Oregoa. though, amt it? Get
about thirteen months OF rain per annum
here, II know anything about it.
Bet you twenty TO ten there's not more
thaA two inches of rain year more in Port
land than there is in New York. was the way
he came at methen In his shrill voice. blowing
q cloud OF that Turk murk in my direction.
This looked too good. Never stacked
up against one that looked so good as this.
] dopt think was ever In Portland, ore,
In all the time I've been hiking around
with samples, that IL wasn't raining.
you're on was real quick TO reply,
feeling how good 1t all was. But what's
the use OF conversing in these chicken feed
termsr Twenty wouldn't more than pay
my account with the news butcher from
here 20 New York. Make il fifty to twenty
five, and Wen feel better
IAN right he answered, just as perky
as you'd want it. Bet you fifty 10 twenty
Ave that not more than two more inches OF
rain fell in Portland than in the city of New
York In the yeaf-well, 19O0-will 1900
Amy old year said I, already feeling
how cosy that fifty was going to feel as a
stripper for my vest wad; How're you
feel apprehensive lest the money might,
for lack of proof on board the train, slip
-'Wait a minute he replied. as cocky
ss fox terrier pup that's just been fed
a basin Of pap, and he jumped up In his
jerky way and went forward into the car.
He returned in just nine seconds with a
standard almanac clutched tightly in his
gloved hands. He riffied the pages, found
Rainfall In the indeH--it was 1901 almanac
-and IL only took him ten more seconds
20 find the Mean annual precipitation
tabulation for 1900.
'Ha, here we are he said. standing
over me and showing me the figures. Mean
annual precipitation in Portland, Ore In
1900, 90 $40 inches; mean annual precipita-
ton in New FORK n v, in 1900. ~ $40 inches;
differences in mean annual precipitat ion,
two inches precisely. How's thatr
sOh, the figures were there all right.
There wasn't any chance for me 20 emit
any moan, either, even II lac had been betting
on a sure thing, for ! had bitten and sailed
along with him and had even made him
raise the ante. He sat down again In the
beet seat, cooked his feet up again on the
seoond-best seat liz another one of those
Streets of Cairo fumers. and dug into the
kick. produced the wallet, skinned OF a
twenty and five, and silently handed EN-
over 10 him
well, just as the jerky bet-you. man
with my twenty y-hve got through replacing
his wallet. one 81 these big, square jiwed,
smooth-shayen, good-uaiured but cock
sure looking chaps stepped into thc smoking
compartment. lie lit big Fat cigar
nodded deoently 10 the two ~ Va, and lay
tack like a man whod never -oss the out
eide Of th. house 10 too much trouble.
pro-snilv the three ~ Va Got 20 passing
the deslIltory Word around in the dc
loinisd way fellows have in q smoking cutn-
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