The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
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y TWO WITH FOURS.
The Folly Oi Depending Oh Some.
thing Good When 4 Better
1s Out.

tine n tha riUst 1masls' things In M.
wufhI ~ mefFfales, " s,td oil man tIfeen.
hut 'is The Wsy aims men II misguided
tstch . ifii hurIae they vii, ~ the dfH~
Wlpn NE dralrf, ae ~ ha0wef ~ ~ paiifHi,
haa iooh ons tasd. az they'll salas an
fnlse Iihe lhay lhpvaht ,hssg wa'a1 nofhih'
IN the derk ~ heat 4 hht o. eOUfae, o thi
houar Ia anosl thing n have ~ the proper
time. hui 'talnt no manneT o. uss when
'tother man has fo,Es,
There's q yap I'm ~ oRaFka Y bIoWa
In here about oncet Q year, 90 h Q fright
en- ahlnln' specimen o. this ptlolar eost o.
chump, Pears ihs he's nigh about due
10 show up again,
First On thers amt nothin' p'coollar
about Sils Hanhina, which IL this zap I'm
talkin' about. just n big. spFawlin', raw.
boned Easabo. suoh a. they grows up In
th' o1arks. long o. the trees a. rocks bein'
20 big Z q small man wouldn't stand no
show gettin' after the game. They tell
me they use tn old elk foot rifles up there
| yet, bein' IA they reckon a short n won't
carry. Similar they breed ak foot men
an some over, T. fear smaller ones d come
short"
That same bein' common sense said
Jake Winterbottom, soiemnly. ~ O man
was to be leaS'n ak foot he'd nachully
come short"
Old man Greenhut glowered at the man
who had ventured to interrupt him. After
an impressive pause he said severelyi
There Is them as comes short In more n
statue. As the Good Book says; Better q
small spoonful o. brains nor a big barns
full o. bran mash II some ID devote as
much effort to oultivatin' intelleok as they
does to tobacco they'd prosper better
Winterbottom was visibly moved by
this rebuke, but a casual locker on might
have supposed that 1t was hllarity rather
than modification. He said nothing how
ever, and after a time Greenhut walked
around from behind his bar to his favorite
chair by a window looking out over the
street.
AS ! was sayin'; afore there wal flip
Interruptions made he went on; this
here Sile Hankins amt nothin' unusual to
look at. Mebbe you mought size him up
fr awk'ard. which he sure be-; e fur's
walkin' goes, but he amt none awk'ard
when 1t comes to handlin' things. l seen
him handle a roustabout onct on the gang
plank O. tn Robert E.. Lee, some like Bas-
sett mought ha' did It,.
This here niger bumped INTO Sile Han
kins carelesslike an didn't make no start
for to 'pologize. Hawkins just looked at
him one little minute an then; when the
niger was waikiki along, he just reached
out one band 'peared like he reached
nigh about ten foot-an' caught the niger
by the back o. the neck. Then he drawed
him back'ards; not slow; but deliberate
like, till he got him nigh enough to bite
II he'd "a been bitin' niggers. Then he
grabbed him by the slack o. the breaches
with the other hand an heaved him up
in the air like he'd been a baby an throwed
him somepin' like fifteen feet, sprawlin'
in the river.
He On handle cards; too; more'n re.
spectacle. There's them has seen him set
in with some O the slickest players on the
river an they say he don't lose none to speak
when it comes his deal.
Pears like a man like that had ought,
for to be rich an respected. Stands to
reason he want horned 18th no such gifts
as them. They was cultivated. An tho
fact O. him cultivatin' Of en- showed he
had moral character. II ever a man was
marked out by a overrulin' providence
for to be successful Sile Hawkins was that
man..
"On'y there was one thing 'peared to
stand in the way. If Sile Hankins had
been any ways determinations he wouldn't
"a had nc trouble about that, but he was
one O. them Z I was talkin' about, It don't
pear to reco'nize t q flush is a almighty
proposition one time, an another time
faint no good on earth.
"Ireckon it must be a dozen year since
he bowed in here to Arkansas City first oil.
He were some awk'arder an more ongainly-
like them days nor he is now which is sayin'
considerable.
"Howbe, that's what Sile Hawkins just
was. There hadn't nobody heer'd O. him
then more'n to know't he we're a settin'
hisself up to know some about draw poker.
Feared like most any one O. the boys cd
trim him easy enough, an there didn't pear
to be no call for to git up a full game. So
Bill Waters he said he reekoned he mought
'commodate the stranger with a freeze-out,
If he was RELY blue mouldin' fr a play.
We'll, Hankins. he spoke easy an pleas
ant, IN he says a freeze-outn do to kill
time, 80 him IN Waters set in. Waters
were a good average player them days.
He want no such expert as he come to be
later on, but there want nobody hero 7
thought fr a minute but what he cd get
away with any such proposition g Hankins
looked to be.
They played fr mebbe half a hour, an
then they come out o. the back room to-
gether, an 1t we're Hawkins t called fr the
drinks. Waters stood by an said nothin',
an when Hawkins had set EN- up a couple
O. times an went out he KEEP on sayin'
nothin' an lookin' sort O. slammed.
when l seen he want goin' to speak I
asst him what the matter was, an he cussed
a little, sort O. discouraged like, an he says,
That zap amt no such g%reenhon as he
looks. He win over three hundred, an I
reckon he'd "a win more il I'd had it with
me He on hold more nine spots an more
frequent n any player I ever see.'
we all see plain enough then what a
mistake it were not to have made up a
game, or else put up a more reliable player
n Waters ag'in him, but there want no
boat leavin' that night, an Joe Bassett
fggered it out t more n likely there'd be
2 game on the next night.
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