The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-08-18

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his Texas bank.
1T was one OF those curious games
that you get into once in a while where
one man has all the luck. I was about
the only winner that night, although not
ali the others we're losers
THE Colonel and the Senator were play
Ing about even, and the other man was
n little In the hole. 1t was the Texan
who was losing the wad, and was aolhs
all the winning. ~,
"yYhen he began to put up markers the
Colonel chipped in with the remark that
thav couldn't beat me that night with q
club, That struck the Texas man la =,
and he hammered the table Win ms iisi
nni swore that he would keep at II unt!l
a,5 Give ma n twist, and with CLUB
at that. fo, =
S,t1Yell. I was on Easy Street, as 1al us
winnings went and would have been sl'lo
~ lose a good stiff hand to him so as 70
have a, chance to get out or II, ior =. ne-
gan to be afraid that It might 20 W -. -.
and either hurt the Texan OF maxi nan ~.
SO hot that he would hold q gruage asa' I'm
me. Butt he kept his temper ~ - na,od In
ho got very much what ne ca1seu ~
earnest. .,.,oh o,a
hafore long he had put up ana lost "
thc trinkets he had as markers. men {, ~. J.
inrnned up and lot out an oatn, anu ~
clnred 3he would quit. NO use pueA.. .,
cmr, Sl,lck. he said, and he'd be haneeu
I T"ot' ! would try it any longer. Better
,,n,,,a some sense about 1t and quit whlle
No had something left for another s ees
sion. l. ~ ad IN ut
MN I'M, an nav sa'u saw YOU quit that way be-
That hit the Texan square qua, th set seaa
tor meant he was tS aatt Timer he sang
out Nf Here I've got 800 acres Of eheap
that in AFTER the rest. It's worth ALT ~
Tia more than dollar an acre, l th'l'h'
but ws P ssl1 i 81 tSaf H HHS b 81 J. IS
ot course of Of h the es{ price S Of
over owe seen or heard OF It. so the 900 acres
went in as $500. The Texan was to trans
fer tho title the next day II he lost ~ nan
tna rs sands he we hsd dealt aeFp pcked
Two red red "a deuces in my hand. One Of my
net superstltions about poker Is that
You Will always help the red deuo :; IN IN
I set e's"t them lem, to s sec whnt'wlll develop.
1.-THE pot was opened fairly easy al
my right and I went In. Then the Texan tst
who 20 vas y 8 { 6oost aoeono man :" 10y
me on the left hit it up once more Just
for luck, and I was caught me IeSe s
! tralled along until they got through;
with nothing In my hand but those req
deuces.
good sharp bluff, / drew three cards
and looked as eoNtented as - ! co tha man
one i wondered MS he picked II UP. 4
that was tho time when he was gong
otter me wh f spp fE FISH, The other her
man, from his raising and taking TWO
| Mayed for threes.
well when the betting beg Sad Is So.
whoop and raised It Just MS much as the
Texan could stand, He hnd Playa at ap9uTF
let lust enough to take the rest OF them,
It would make him think was after his
homestead for sure.
ont nj the first raise, for he hadn't ,helped
tho draw. Then the other chap quit, ana
/ sat there grnnlng and Watching the
N II didn't care rap whether he called
or not, for would Just as soon have had
him Win as not. But he didn't call He
looked at rho second and then threw
'"N mo, BY aeorge' he said you couldn't
beat him with a club nor five Of them,
Take the damned stuff
with that he got UP and walked over
- Come in in the morning. he said. and
III give you deed for the land
= You haven't lost y all yet Clipped
J il ST MISSED MISSED BEING AN OIL KING.
well, III keep the rest, answered the
Texan. Maybe It viii bring me luck,
soon afterward the game broke M; nut
] had been fool eonugh to show down my
hand with nothing In It but those two red
'"rhe colonel and the Senator. laughed
a lot. and talked about what run T Thhey
did, too, for tho next day when saw
him they had been, there first. III,
0I've come to the conclusion. ne sai s
that that land wasn't meant TO he LOST
In a poker game, and II it's al the snme
TO TO You ri redeem i at a dollar an acre
ana kaan II myHelf,' a
'iSThat was where ] made goat Of my
self for sure, and lost the only chance
iii ever have OF being rich ! took the
dollar an acre and he kept the lana aha, t Ana
strnck oil on It and that Texan Is worth
I don't know how many. millions That's
what might have had lt I'd kept 'Aa land
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