The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-06-12
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Arkansas City for some time, and

Arkansas City for some time, and
sam Pearsau had gone away on
one OF his occasional river trips. PLY
I'M i'm the face 20 providence, / call it,
said old man Greenhut, feeling him-
self called on TO express an opinion of
SANS enterprise.
stands TO reason" he explained,
that when a mans got hisself estab-
Hshed In a good line o. business with
no reasonable doubts o. the future, he
haiur no ground for supposin that
things rs all gone 10 smash, just cause
there comes d few dry days.
Tain't gOin' 10 rain an the time,
not for nobody, am just because ne
happens to miss his little shower o.
mamma for "a day or two it's plumb
disTespeCJfui TO the Lord TO think
there 8iu'r Euiu' TO bee no more mamma.
The children OF Israel Earned that ia
the wilderness, am they Earned it
hard.
Now here sam PearsaH is got TO be
knOWed all up an down the river as
one o. the best short card players they
is. 7 don't say he's the best No man
CANT be called that. But sam is one
O. the best
AN here he is. located ia the real
center o. the Mississippi valley, so far
as poker is concerned, am fixed for
life. bein' as he's in good standin' with
the local talent am stands I'M with 'em
au just cause there's a scarcity o.
suckers for few days, he's gone of
l0okia' for a game s0meWheres else,
where he won't nave no moral support
I'm q emergency If he strikes one. i
say iGs impiOus."
I'm due time. however, Sam returned,
and though he had little TO say for q
few days there was not that air of
triumph about him which he was wont
TO exhibit I'm times OF sudden pros
periJy. No one cared, therefore, to
question him, and although GreeuhuU
looked c0mplacenL as one whose Opin-
ION had been justified. he fOrbOTe
speaking.
lit was plain that there was some
thing on PearsalIs mind, and the
others were patient, being confident
that they would know about it In good
time, and So they did.
Ii was early I'm the evening. and the
usual group sat i'm Greenhuts saloon
I'm the usual sOCiable seance, each
man busy with his own tobacco. when
PeaFsaH said without preliminary:
The question is. how fur q man had
ought for to back four kings"
There was silence for some moments,
was confident of his ground.
If sh'd say thatd depend altogether
on how much Of a wad lac had. / reck-
ON the man e wouldn't risk mis- pile on
four kings Is the man that wouldn't
stoop 20 pick up a thousand dollar bin
if he seen Be on the ground i'm front of
him."
Wen 7 don't know" said Jim Whit
tecOmb. -Four kings sure is a good
hand, but it kin be beat"
yes, Sd Kin be beat" said Bassett
CouJemptu3usly. $50 can a man get
struck by HghJnin' I've knowd of
cases. But a man that wouldn't stoop
down an pick up g. thousand dollar bin
just cause he's afraid OF bein' struck
by lighniu' amt what you'd really cau
a dead game sport
"NO he Amt" said Jake Winterbot-
tom, IAN speakia' by an large like I'd
say pretty muCh what Joe does. -Four
kings is big enough 10 carry my pile
most aIays. but there is tines
Did the other man have his sun out?"
NO. said sam briefly. 'Twan't no
matter O. gunplay."
"Then I sh'd say t there was a good
bit depeHdin' on who dealt the cards
Eow. If it were square deal"
Dealt 'em myself said sam.
'Weu if you knOWed that the cards
was dealt honest, and you held the four
kings. ] sh'd say q you done about
right III you put your pile iu the pot
o. course, you mought be beat, at that
but If SOU was it'd look INDUSTRIOUS
like what they say 0n a biH of ladin
the act o. God, or the common en-
envy
81 don't know" said Whitteeomb.
who did not seem 90 relish the con
tempt with which his suggestion Of
possible disaster had been received.
-Four kings sure is q good hand, but
there's quite number Of hands In