The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-01-03

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to play keerds mighty well, both on
| US, but likely we can't make up a
game.
| % co'se that We're bluff, an twa'nt
| no time at all afore they was all three
| argyfyin' about whether they'd play
poker or old sledge. An jest naturally
| Slingsby, bein' one to two, was the
one to give in.
He said he was wiIlin' enough to
/ learn, long as he couldn't get nobody
| to play his game. So they got the
cards an chips from me an set right
down in a little back room that I had
| for players that didn't care about
playin' in the main saloon. There was
some, even them times, but I don't
reckon those three cared, on'y twas
| handy right where they was.
We'll, say, it was more fun than q
monkey to see that Slingsby takin' his
instructions. He had TO be told some
things half a dozen times
Twa'nt necessary, though, to tell
him but once about the chips. He
flashed his $50 with the others, like
fifty want no more'n one, which likely
'twa'n't, to him.
But when it come to the hands he
'peared to be stupid like, an after a
while he wrote 'em all out on a paper
an kept the paper long side of him to
look at. After that he got along better,
but he KEEP gettin' mixed up in the
play, an made the same mistake so
often, that I begin to think after a time,
t somepin' was wrong. Feared like
any man that knowed how to play
cards at all wouldn't have no such
FRO, Ia ba no ~, nj,
game.
Barrett an Winterbottom didn't
pear to suspicion nothin', though.
Likely they was so set on gettin'
Slingsby to play t they didn't stop to
think
Anyways they KEEP on givin' him as
much edication as they thought was
good for him, an advisin' him about
this an that in way to make YOU
grieve. An in the meantime. they was
gettin' in bets now an again that ct
up Slingsby's fifty in little while.
He didn't pear to. make no count o
that, an bought another fifty, like he
was buying a cigar, but the second
went quicker n the first, an when l
see him fash his roll for more chips
says to myself there was somethin /
queer about it.
didn't seem likely t he was goin' to
throw fifty dollar bills away to amuse
other people, an keep it up very long.
All of a sudden 1 seen a great white
light.
1T were Slingsby's deal an Winter
bottoms age, an .as soon as Bassetti
looked at his cards he come in. Then /
Slingsby said he lowed he'd play on his
hand, an he come in, too.
Then Winterbottom raised it five
dollars, an Bassett looked like he'd like !
to hist it his own self. Only for scarin' |
Slingsby out. L cd see what he wanted /
Winterbottom to understand, as we'll as |
Jake hisself. But he doesn't raise, and
Slingsby comes in.
THAT made a pot of nigh $50 before
the draw, an Winterbottom called for
one card. Then 2assett, he took one
card an Slingsby looked at his hand
for quite a spell, an then says with
sort of laugh that he reclxoned he'd do
like the others was doin' an take one
hisself.
Then, O. course, it were Bassett's bet
an he bet ten dollars. Slingsby seen
the ten. an Winterbottom raised it ten.
an Bassett come back with ten more;
an Slingsby put up his little twenty
Then Winterbottom raised it twenty.
an Bassett made it twenty more, an
made good.
Then they dug out their wads an
raised it fifty, an Bas-
sett made it fifty more, an Slingsby
again made good. o. course they want
really bettin agin one another, Win
an Bassett ant. They was
on'y tryin' to see how far they could
carry Siingsby along without givin
him chance to call. an so close the
play.
Well it proved to be easy to carry
him along. They raised each other five
times, fifty at a time, an Slingsby made
good each time without sayin' nothfn', L
till it come the sixth time round Then
he says, kind O. low an careless like;
Pears like you gentlemen thinks
you've got some pretty good cards, anil
don't know but what maybe YOU
have, but this is kind o slow. Std o l.
raisin' it in little chunks. lets make it /
'Sposin' we make it a thou-l
sand more. An he throwed down a
thousand dollar bill.
We'll, say! If he'd ha' slapped them
TWO men in the face they couldn't Ia 4
set up straighter nor more sudden 4
They did whole lot o thinkin' for a
few minutes an then they laid down
their cards, both on 'en, which aFays '
peared to me like mighty good poker t