Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1903-10-09
A NEAT BUNkO GAME
HOW THE MAN WHO THOUGHT he
KNEW IT ALL WAS FOOLED.
A Scheme That worked the Way the
Betting Went and Gave No Clew
as TO How the Tip Was Passed 10
Break or Not to Break the jug.
ALSO PURIFIEs THE BLOOD.

Break or Not To Break the jug.
Its a good thing for Us, | suppose,
That whenever We get II all settled and
arranged in our minds that were TOO
everlastngly bright and crafty To be
done by anybody we usually get fall
that takes the perkiness ont OF Us. said
q Washington department store buyer
who makes frequent trips to New \ ork.
Cup to a certain day last week. for eN-
ample. | had pretty thorough under
standing with myself that there was no
old kind OF a New York bunko game
that I'd bite on. I'd been going 10 New
York too often and for too long time
for anything like that. Well. listen.
"A week ago Monday morning last |
was standing after breakfast on the
Thirty sixth street side of the MARI
borough hotel. in New York taking
sun bath for myself and mapping out
my programme for the day. Two or
three other men were standing near me
doing the same
"Our attention was laziy enlisted as
we stood there by the spectacle of
boy wearing a chefs cap and apron
recklessy swinging an empty crockery
pitcher above his head. The boy was
rugged up like hotel kitchen appren-
tlce.
What Internal whelps most boys
are, anyhow remarked sporty look
ing man standing near me to plain
looking individual who was standing
alongside Of him. Now, just look at
that cub fooling with that pitcher It's
a clnch that he'll drop II and smash 1t
to smithereens before he gets 10 Sew
enth avenue
"'Oh l dunno was the reply of the
plain looking man. 1 guess the Kid
knows what he's about He's got a
pretty good clutch on the handle of the
pitcher. He'll hang on to IL all right
BET you five he drops il before he
reaches Seventh avenue, was the quick
response OF the man with the sporty
look
81 guess III take that bet answered
the plain looking man, and he produced
his wad. The sporty looking citizen
peeled a V from his roll and both men
put up their money with the uniformed
carriage opener stationed outside the
Marlborough. Then they took up the
Jog together toward Seventh avenue 10
keep an eye on the boy. who was still
swinging the pitcher wildly. l held
my ground and watched the proceed
ing II looked like pretty good bet
for the plain looking man until, when
the boy was only about ten feet from
the corner OF Seventh avenue, the
pitcher few ont OF his hand as he was
trying some singulary difficult piece
OF juggling with II and was dashed
into a hundred fragments on a door
step The sporty looking man and the
plain looking individual returned 10
where | was standing and the former
took the two VS. from the stakeholder
with grin. saying
~ thought sure | was going TO lose
out on that when the kid got 50 near
Seventh avenue without anything hap
pening to the pitcher
Two days later | was standing
alongside a hotel at the corner OF
Eighth avenue and One Hundred and
,Twenty-hf street, in Harlem, waiting
for a downtown electric car. when |
saw that selfsame youngster, with the
identical kitchen apprentices toggery,
going along Eighth avenue. again wild
ly swinging a pitcher. Then ! cast
my eyes about me, and there, only
three feet to the left OF me and leaning
against an L stanchion, was the sporty
looking man. He blinked lazily at me
when he saw that I had observed the
boy with the pitcher.
What Internal whelps most boys
are, anyway he said to me in precisely
the same words and the same tone he
had used in making the remark a cou.
ole OF DAYS before IN the - i--ss-1-