The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-05
Trimming the zap.


house DRAWN TO two pair, an he had a
upstate confidence In ace flush again
a One-card draw t was we'll calculated
for 10 swell the pot There was a Jolt
come FIN that Z sort O. sobered him up
a little.
Then lie straightened hisself up an
took p'tickieT notice o ~thinks when
Jake Winterbottom dealt hisself three
ten an Joe Bassett four little deuces,
accidentally givin' the zap three seven
speakers on the same deal.
Joe opened the rot nm the yap
h'isted him. Then Jake boosted 'em
both. an Joe came back at 'en savage,
an the zap stayed. an Jake raised and
Joe raised an the zap stayed, an they
KEEP this up till the chips was all up an
they was using bills.
90 course Joe would ha' been raisin'
yet if Jake hadn't ha' 'peared to mis-
trust sOmegin' an traiied Just about
the time the zap was gettin' some tired.
Then they drawed. Joe took one.
naturally, an the zap he took two an
made a seven full. an Jake took two
an didn't better.
Right there was where that there
yap-i really forget his name, but he
was I'm up the river somewheres-
showed more poker sense n we'd give
him credit for.
"'Peared like he suspicioned the one
card draw alter the way Joe had played.
an sized his hand for tours acr-~.h'.
Anyhow. airs lie did when Joe bet a
white was 10 trail.
Jake raised once and Joe h'isted It
an the yap started TO throw down his
cards. Then he studied a while an
finally trailed once more. but Jake
seen he want gOin' no further, so he
called
1T crimped the yap's wad, O. course,
but he played on, am we seen he
knowed some poker so they was all
were doin' fair when Marin Spoonover
bust in.
she was middiin' small w@z,an.
with little peaked features an a wisp
o straw hair, an faded out blue eyes,
but both the door posts cracked when
she come through. an the floor shook
when she landed alongside Ben's chair.
Marin Spoonover weighed two ton.
just for the minute, an her features
was blazin' an her hair stood u, an
there was fOrked lightin streamin'
Outen her eyes, to say nothin' o. the
most amazin' line o. talk Z was pourin'
outen her mouth.
She brushed by me, an T amt
ashamed o sayin' I / set down sudden
when she did. Joe B>ssett an one or
two o the others uncer:ook 10 stop
her when they thought she was MUIR
derin' Ben, an how she did it don't
know, but she scratched their faces
like a wildcat 'thougt,en lettin' go O.
Ben f'r a minute
What she did to him, after tippia'
the table over an scatterin' chips
cards an money all over the floor, was
TO catch him by both ears an turn his
head plumb round toward the door,
afore she lifted him outen his chair,
lettin' his body swing round in line
with his face, an then march him out
the room. maxim remarks.
lust natural. there were a break
in the game. an the zap he got his
breath sooner'n the rest of us did. an
he says;
Gosh That's dern sight more
eXeitin than poker, Who is that wu-
MANI
we told him. an he looked kind
o thoughtful. an said he reckoned
he wouldn't play no more that night.
so he set 'em up an walked over to
the hotek
THE next nlghs Ben sneaked in,
some alter dark. an set eatin' his to-
baeco, kind o mournful. FIR a long
time. Then Sam Pearsall come in, an.
seem Ben. he says to him:
- Ben, he says, you know that zap