Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-12-18

sell as lndI you re easy Tor any speed
that's going, and l was just balancing
on the brink waiting for someone to
give me the shove, but didn't know 1t.
well, the shower came along, all
right, and hs had on good disguise,
too. 1t was Bill Shanks.
Howdy,' he says, kinder clipper
like, as if he was wanting something
in hurry and was sliding over the
ordinary formalities.
'Evenin'' l says, pulling out two
cigars, and handing him one. But that
wasn't what he wanted.
Say he says, through his teeth as
he bit off the end of the weed. I'm glad
l run across you, Jake. Wanter sit in
little game tonight? I'm looking for
one to fill out
There's where l got me Waterloo.
think both of the Jumps in the peck
cts that had Leen the cause of my
happy feeling with myself jumped
from premonition. But l was tickled
to death. 1t was just what l would
have suggested had l thought about
anything, and when Bill said Come
on over the brink went just as easy
as sinking into dopeville when they
pass you the ether cone on the operat-
ing table.
$50 OF on the bitsky we went Bill
said he was invited down to the house
of baker in Flatbush.
"'The gaza,bo's wife is going to
! spend the night with her country cous-
in who is stopping with Them says
Bill as we hoped on car, and he
wants to have a night of it while
they're away. He asked me to bring
friend along and keep him company.
He's good fellow, and think we can
get away with few bags of coal. He
wants to learn how to play poker
] 81 nearly tainted when Bill handed
me that one. If there is anything l
have bug on. it is to play the part
of the good Samaritan. l love to in
struct the ignorant in any branch of
knowledge in which l am proficient,
especially poker.
1--WE didn't say much all the way
down to the house on the car. l was
thinking what gust of wind had sent
so much good fortune my way in twen-
ty-four hours.
81 was figuring on where l would
bank my wad after 1 got through, and
I didn't know but what l would have
to hire an expressman to help me
carry it away. Bill said his friend had
lots of the rhino and that's what |
need. You know me.
| well, Bill had to pinch me to get
me out of it when the car stopped at
the geUting off place, and when We
pulled up in front of a swell cottage
with flower gardens all around and a
conservatory out in the middle of the
lasphalted street, where the horses run,
was still drowsy over the prospects
of buying a few automobiles with the
fees for my tuition.
''One of them stiff gazobos with
side soups on his jowls and full
Dress suit opened the door and took
our rags away. Then the main geezer,
Bills friend, came out of the red IL
brary and shook hands with us. / give
him the glad NIT and felt my digits
sink into two inches of his flesh.
thought I was squeezing a piece or
angel cake.
"'Glad to see you, boys said his
nobs; come into the billiard room and
have nip of something We went in
and had several and then we lost no
time in getting upstairs to the smok-
ing room.
'Tdy, but it was dead elegant joint
You could see yourself in the floors
and the walls were papered with prec-
ious stones and bank notes right from
the printing press.
We played a fe..- rounds just to
show him how the game went. Bills
friend was lucky and got away with
the first three rounds, but that didn't
faze me. knew the doors were lock-
ed and it was a big jump out of the
window, so he couldn't get away. Be-
sides, he owned the place, and he
would stick to the walls even If we
took away the furniture.
Just when the game was losing it's
chill and l was getting into my stride
i the bell rang and the fellows wife and
the country cousin came back.
1.-THE old man nearly tainted when
the butler said his wife had returned,
and he went down stairs to greet her.
got leary then because l had let him
dig into my roll for a bunch, and
thought l was up against a game.
eyed Bill closely when the fellow went
down stairs, and asked:
is this guy going to throw up?"
bill was as much in the dark as
was, and we both sat moti0nless until
he came back. He looked pretty
glum.
"Then he said he was sorry that the
game hadn't lasted longer, but HIS
wife had been taken suddenly sick and
had to come home. | thought it was
a case of cold feet and suggested that
we play few more hands and his wife
needn't know we were there.
HE baked and said he couldn't and
lpromised to fix it for some other night.
well, | was knocked stiff and they
had to pour brandy into me for fear
would lay down on the floor and die.
"MOmmer but | was a sore glly