The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-02
SHE kNEW WHAT 10 no.
80 This Young WE Sal J. when Friends
Tried to Teach Her Poker.

rev nights ago cOupl" pi Young Man
haitian men living uptown experienced a
stimuli neous wave of sympathy for a
former chun and classlnate. who is now
married and living in Brooklyn. So they
wen, over the Bridge TO call upon their one
time pal and his wife
After they had talked over the whole
thing. domestic and foreign. pretty thor
oughlv. the married mans delightful young
wife thought that a game of cards would
i've about right 10 I'll in the evening The
usual question, "What'll We lly;" Wa gone
oveN and tllreshed. whist being voted too
hard work. Cassino too simple c,Ichr' too
stupid, and So ON. until at The end of one he
callers said
What 5 the matter with draw"
Draw What's that asked his friends
wife
why. poker was the reply
"Oh surely. poker" she said Il didn't
know YOU called It draw. though Why do
You call II draw
sual explanation here.
i've always been perfectly crazy 10
earn how To play poker. she said then
YOU'RE going to learn how right now \"
said her husbands Chum. Go, any
nuney?"
TIM ye-es," she replied femininely
Anyhow, Jack will lend me enough to start
OF; won't you. Jack?"
husbands remark about having dead
ON" in the game. and then they went ahead
after all three of them had got themselves
rather hoarse in explaining to her just how
10 handle her hands. what the hands We're
worth, what bluhiug meant, what not 10 do
If she only had eight high, and 80 on.
oh, you needn't tell me any more" she
said, after they had explained all toget her
for a while: Il know what to do
II was 10 he five-cent ante. ten-c"u limit
The married man took the bankers end
and all hands took dollars worth Of five
cont chips. The chips were parior matches
The banker had the first deal. his wife
sitting on his left an'eing. All three 81 the
men seemed To have caught something
worth while, for they all stayed
The man who had suggested the game
"a, next to his friends wife and he took two
cards. The other two men took three cards
each. The young married woman didn't
want any.
They all looked hard a, her when she stood
pat, and she smiled back a. them trium-
phantly.
Pretty early to begin buffing," they all
said to her, but she only continued smiling
al them
Then the betting began. The man who
had only drawn two cards went the limit
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