The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-16
A GAME OF DRAW POKER


Mehbe smell come home in the mornin'
But Bilwheel he SAYS to me 'Green-
nut, YOU was Sayin, q spell ago as how [
might learn few things myself when /
went to the school o. ma trimOny. Well
! haiut been there very long yet. but I
heV learned two or three things. Mis-
Bilwheel amt comm home no more. IL
50 be she's goin' home to her mother,
he says.
Well ne turned in with me there
bein' two beds i'm the room. an mex day
he went scOutin' round for Ia find out
what RELY had come o Mis- BHwheel
an he learns she's gone to her mothers.
just IKE he'd reckoned.
He didn't say much. but he KIND .
set round daytimes. drinkin' more liquor
N was good for him, an he played poker
every night, winnin' steady an not per
in to take no more satisfaction into that
nor he did i'm his whisky An ne aIays
turned in with me alter the game was
over. Feared like he didn't care nothin
about goin 10 his own house now I
Mis- BilWheel had left But he didn
make no move To git her back, and
ca see z he were studyin
"One night n couple o weeks a ter he
SAYS 10 me: Greenhut. we been think
ing a lot he says. an | reckon I'm
good deal Of darn fool 7 acted hasty.
he saws You see. 7 set in to help Mis-
BilwhCei learn things too soon. Shed
Ia found en- out time enough. but
WAS in hurry, an me on'y married
three days. II I'd hard sense. ne says,
IA waited say for a week, an then. II
she'd kicked over like she has mcbbe
twouldn't Ina made no difference. But
three days amt reciy long enough he
sIys, 'fT a man TO get what satiSfac-
ton there is OutCn bcin' married 60
woman. if hc RELY cares for her life |
do. He'd ought TO wait week, any
way. afOre he gets his pile. Then, if she
calls faint SO much matter. But three
DAYS Greenhut three days RELY amt
sufficient ike
"WeIl. faint hardly to be believed but
that there little experience made dill
forent man o Jim Bilwheel. He KEEP on
playin poker like he arays had so there
wa Mt no question of his maxim Twin
Tor he was a good player. an he stood
in wit hthe boys. an suckers is mostly
al avs plenty i'm Little Rock But Led
see I he was aIayS thinkiu O sOmepin
an l knowed well enough what twas.
He were a-broodin' over the mistake he
made playin his hand too soon with
Mis- 'Bilwheel. 'Peared like he couldn't
get over 1t.
Bimeby there was things noticed about
him that was different I'm what had
been. lie drinked consid able an smoked
al the tire. but that didn't count What
made the boys anxious about him was Z
he didn't pear to bc playin so good "A
game 5 @ aIays had.
Pete GroSjcan was the first one that
spoke TO me about il, an Pete was some
mad. He SAYS. II Bilwheel keeps on
like he's been dom f'r a week or two.
ne says, he don't set into no game I'm
IN, he says Can't afford it
An then he tells me they had sucker
IN the game the night afOre an him an
BHwheel stood for to get two or three
hundred out of him. but Bilwheel 'peared
TO be thinkin' about somepin else. an
slipped IN on three lor four chances that /
Pete give him. so Pete got skeered an
broke up the game.
We'll told him p'raps Bnwheel had
drinked a little too much. or somepin
an the best thing was to try him again
Hes arays been reliable, / says an
its likely he might not ha' felt just right
We're none on us perfect Pete / says.
an the most conscientious player is La
bic 10 make mistakes sometimes.
Pete ne didn't pear 10 be ROne too well
satisfied but he sort o srunted an
didn't say no more. an the very mex
with three fellers I'm Nup in tn Ozarks
sOmewheres, that 'peared TO have money
an was lookin f'r experience. They
looked like moUntaineers al right, but
one on EN- called Jack peared to me a
good deal like a crossroads gambler I
was brash enough 10 think he cd stack
up agin a city game.
KNOWN GrOsiean's deal an Bill
wheels habit o. tendin TO the fine points
o. the game. | wa MT troubled none: bust
what Grosjean had said TO me made me
look on tOiable close. just To see If Bill
wheel was RELY out o condition.
Played For Table Stakes.
They pla7sed table stake game an
each man bought 4 hundred TO start, so
there was some interest into II I m the
beginnin but that wa MT nOthin 10 what
twas in half an hour Jack an one q
the others was for pressin the game, an
they was bettin their piles on. any thlHS
bettern aces. o course there was more
chips ON the table in no time. an iva n
long afore there must Ia been a couple
O. thousand in sight.
"Rilwheel. he were playin as steady as
"a clock an must ha had more n 800
in his pile. when one o thes here yapS'
a red headed chap, asks the othes' how
long he's goin' TO stay i'm town. an the
other Teller. that suffered. he said he
was goin' to stay for three days.
Then the other Teller, the red-headed
one. he says: 'Nou'de oushter stay n
q week. anyhow. You can't see nothin
worth while i'm three days. AM ] cd
see Bilwheel look at EN- kind o sharp
fr "A minute. an then sort o fardHay
look come in his eye, an / SAYS to my
self there WAS goin to be trouble.
1t were the red-headed mans deal
an Jack. settin first opened the pot
for the size of it, Bilwheel had next
say. an ne stayed. The stutteTin' man
dropped an Pete raised it so Feared
after ( he didn't have nOthin but was
boostin' BilWheerS game on a chance.
well. the dealer dropped an Jack come
back with thirty more. an Bilwhecl
stayed. IT looked all right to GrOSjedn.
so he h'ists in thirty more. an Jack
stays. an Bilwheel stays.
"GrOsiean give him a quick. sharp look
but Bilwheei set steady. an Jack calls
for two cards. Then Bilwheel calls for
three an Grosiean, loo<in' mighty white
calls for three. He scent Bilwheel had
throwed him. not havin' no license to
play on "A pair like he had. or. II he was
blUffin'. To give away his hand by drawn
three cards.
Then Jack bets hundred dollars. an
Biiwheel studies for a hong time, an fin
ally he says: I'll raise you three days
An he shONes four hundred in the pot.
When ! seen that ] knowed we'll
enough 4 what the red-headed man said
had set Jim thinkn' about Mis- Bilwheel
SO ! knowed the trouble was nigh hand
Grosiean he didn't understand, but ne cd
SEE trouble all right an. usin a cuss
word or two. he throwed his cards on
the table.
Jack. he looked sort o. puzzled. hear
in somepiB about three days but the
chips talked an he seen the three hun
dred raise an fingered his own pile to
see what he had left.
III just about hist you what's here
he SAYS. an he shoves IL in.
IN see that an raise you a week
saws Bilwheel. sort o. dazed. an then
he woke up. like He'd played hisself
out. thiukin' a. somepin' else. an. o.
course, not helm able 20 raise no fur
fhhr'n Jacks pilp. which were all IN he