Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-09-08
from then on it was blood poker and

| from then on It was blood poker and
no quarter.
| About half an hour before pipe
down was due to break up all Of the
games until the morrow, the Chink,
who was a little, weakened chap. with
the signs Of the surreptitious use Of the
hop in his small, shrewd slant eyes,
dealt himself a hand for jackpot
that, after the black had opened, he
stood pat on. The darky had tossed a
half card, representing a five-dollar
chip, into the centre in opening it, and
the Chinaman, who was standing on
his feet In sitting-down posture, rest
ed his cards face downward on the
deck and counted out ten Of the five
dollar half cards called chips and slid
them into the pot.
"'Laise you fifty he said to the
black.
"'An' fifty mo- quickly replied the
black seaman, with a broad grin, wink
ing at the lookers-on and scooping
twenty of the torn-in-two card chips
into the pile.
1.-THE Chinaman saw the raise before
the draw, and the black held up An
ger to intimate that he wanted one
card When he saw the Chinaman
furtively dropping the deck without
making any draw himself-and there
was some scientific exaggregation In
the furtiveness with which the China
man did the trick-the black laughed
aloud.
"'None To- yo' all, eh?' he guffawed.
| 'Un-tryin' tub git in a sneaky STAN
pat, er. yo' yalluh-faced ape? Got de
papuhs an don't want no one tub know
yo don't need no mo-, eh, yo'
squeenchy-eyed baboon?'
"Tsi Moon smiled affably.
up to you now he said.
1.-THE Negro closed his cards up and
hicked a five-dollar half-card into the
stack. The conquering grin still re-
mained on his face.
"'Jes' tub feel O. yo', yo' pig-tailed
DOPE he said.
"'Laise you fifty said Tsi Moon.
without looking up.
1.-The Negro looked delighted. He
rocked to and fro on his launches and
rubbed his knees with an elephant-like
contentment in the mere pleasure OF
motion.
"'Yalluh man. he said with hoarse
happiness, 'yo' all bite LAX uh Missis-
sipp' bull-haid catfish whut's been
stranded in uh swamp To- up month by
uh flood. Uh hund'ed mo- dan yo' ALL
"'And hundled.' said Tsi Moon,
seeming to be studying with queer in
tentness a bolt at the base of the cap
stan.
Terry, the black seaman, still sway
ed to and fro with q kind Of Joy that
caused him to gurgle in his throat. .
"'Yo' blink-eyed monkey he said
purringly to the Chinaman, ALIVE been
uh- waitin' TO six yeahs on two o desc
O. frigates O. Uncle Sammy's, tuh line
up uhlongside o. yo' all. An now
Alive got yo' all, an got yo' In uh co
nuh. An hund'ed mo-
"'Hundled,' remarked Tsi Moon,
hicking a fly from off the toe Of one Of
his heelless grass slippers.
"Jes' lax pickin' crab meat with uh
icepick,' said the dinge, every one Of
his teeth showing in the breadth Of his
grin. Mex it two hunded dis-uh-time.'
".You get it,? said Tsi Moon, look
ing up inquiringly.
HAS All got it. yo' chave haired
rat t-eater? amiably said the black, and
he pulled from underneath his white
twill blouse a canvass bag about the
size of a boxing-glov pulled together
at the top with a drawstring. 'Deys
'leben hunded in this hyuh gunnysack
an All didn't have tub wash down no
decks tub git dis hyuh gilt, neethuh,'
and he laughed uproariously as he
thought, presumably, Of the easy fash
ion witt W. n he had snagged the
velvet In the canvas bag from his ship
mates in previous poker seances.
"'All r. said Tsi Moon, refixing his
gaze on the capstan bolt. I see you
two bundled, and laise you A. bundled
"The Negro stopped swaying on his
launches as suddenly as If the MASTER
alarms of the ship had tapped him on
the shoulder and ordered him to re-
port to the stick, and for half Sec
ond the whites Of his eyes were VISA
BILE. It was not exactly with his pre-
vious hoarseness of sheer delight that
he said:
Five Hunded, Ell? An how does
All know dat yo' all has got dat?'
1.-The Chinaman reached under his
blouse and gave the black quick flash
at a canvass sack of even larger size
than the seaman had produced.
~ got, all r. said Tsi Moon. 'Laise
you fl hundred
And that's the way it passed back
and forth between the Chinaman and
the black man until they counted the
half-card chips in the stack and fig
ured up the larger tally bets that
weren't represented by chips in the pot,
and found that the Negroes eleven hun
dred velvet was all in on his final
raise, with the raise now up to the
Chinaman.
"'Ah'm all in said the dinge, but
All hain't had enough yit. All don't
want no showdown eff yo' all don /,
yo' mango hair. Alive got uh thou
san mo- on de books, an eff yo' wants
Ah'll wait twell de end o. de cruise an
shove in all O. nah payday TO uh
show -down-uh thousan' -dolluh show
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