The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-30

tied. an II It don't itl be the wuss for both
on 'em. but 'twouldn't surprise me none to
see II happen any time. does been under
pressure, now, quite q spell,
We'll, that very night a''sE r,d Esd R sSt
an Joe was TO be married Sunday there
come q couple o. crossroads gamblers to
town iookin' for a game. They was rip.
stavin' good players, too, an the boys didn't
git none the best on EN- that night.
Fact was t they was some ahead along
about Saturday noon. for they played right
along, nobody seemin' TO care nothin about
sleep, an 1t looked like II were goin' to be
case o. the ones that cd keep fresh longest
getting away with the money.
Long in the evening on Saturday zoe
comes In to have a talk with me like he DID
liable often, an j seen " were the pest
sort Of chance for 70 lend neipn ro Mamp
Joe want drinkin' nothin' an seen y was
him cigar, but he wouldn't take 1t.
Then told him about these two strangers
Jake WInterbottom an Sam Pearsall an
Henry Bascom Gibson an Sawyer the
two strangers was called. An j says to
Joe 7 I were leetle anxious about Winter-
"You know Jake amt as young as ne
was I says, am 1t looks to me like he
wouldn't be able to play much lo ngs
An you know says. it'd be toran oe
thine III Ssle hssS
capable should set in an take Jake's place.
says. there'd be no such calamity hap.
PENN says rs pity y Joe si that tSe You man Ne
But there don't pear to be no good players
round just now, 'oeptin' you
well, Joe he looked monstrous worked
up. He seen what a emergency it were;
an ne were all tore up. ae h sac 90 in the
'A't 20 5'o course n he he says. i can't play f'r
told her l wouldn't, but I'd kind o ike
S, look o on an rss see the gs SAYS
stranger can win at draw poker in Arkansas
City, 7thouten he cheats.
$50 he goes in the back room, an ! says
to myself I'd did a toll able good thing.
but sometimes they, is little slow comm.
a little
Il didn't have no idea, though. o what q
good thing I had RELY did. Joe hadn't
| come out an called for some red liquor.
I'm goin' to bed he says. Then,
| two fellers is devils. We been playin'
thirty odd hours now an they're Just as
that, they're four hundred dollars ahead.
| I've lost three hundred myself, an I've got
! to give up. I'm dead from the necktle
| down
Il seen he was right an there want no
ast him il anybody d took his seat, but
he raid there hadn't;
Zoe Bassett's in there, he says, 1ookin'
on, but you know he don't play no more.
more, al, then went an looked in my own
| self. 1t was just as / knowed 1t would be.
Joe had sook the fifth seat, an he were
deep, in tho game. -.
There wan't no fault to be found with
that. l seer 'twa'n't intended that good
man all d be suhered to go wrong like he'd
been doin, an come away, givin thanks
for tn interposi.ion, an gvin' myself credit
| for some help. didn't know; though, how
much good had done till the next day;
for when Sunday boon come, Joe was still
afhe time for the veddn' had been sot
fer O'Clock, an alonE about half past IL
one o. the girls oousihs found soS out ~ " ne
but Joe was just then tol'able busy, He
had three aces in his hand afcre the draw,
an Gibson was tryin' to blum him out OF
Jackpot, 30 'twa'nt the bet time fer to
sThis here cousin he tried It, not bein'
a poker player hisself, an lot KNOWN
what fool he was. But Joe give him q
few remarks that sort O. stunned him an
went on playin.'
.The cousin he went away. an there
want no more interruptions till ,he game
broke up about 8 in the evenin' Joe an
Henry Bascom havin' all the money there
was in the party.
.They said the girl took the train Monday
mornin' for Little Rock. Anyway Joe
never seen her again. an 'tvn'n't long
afore he we're just rs good a citizen as
| ever.
lit shows how mysterious the ways O.
| Providence is 1t don't ALIAS take the
| kick of a mule to change a mans mind,
but it does seem almighty queer, some
times, how it changes"