The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1906-09-27

son street afore gamblin' got stopped
In Chicago, an got into the habit O
calm bluffs if | had anythin over a
small pair.
Does it cost you anything"
Depends on what the felers got
an what you've got It's expensive
until YOU get wise to the signs You
can get wise after you've played long
enough, but by that time you haven't
got the ante
You amt broke, are you?"
mo, ] amt broke, but I'm wise
I'VE quit. That's the best way to beat
the game-stay out"
Il thought you said you'd got wise
That's right, but there's others in
the game gets wise to EN-, too You
amt the only pebble, you see. You
get SOS You want to make a bluff on
a pair 0 twins yourself, an by the
time you've got 'em fooled into think
in it's a full house they drop a bean
an fade out an tho next hand some.
body holds out the aces an you've got
to borrow carfare But think it does
q man good to play little. lbs good
for his nerve hadn't learned to tell
the cards a week when | run agin
big slob of PoIack that was workin'
over on the other side o the street
from me an buyin his suds at Swim
hart's. | got sore on that guy the first
time | seen him. He was talkin to
Bob McCurdy, who was tendin bar.
like he was over in the next block an
hard o hearin'. An when he got his
tub he rolled over to table with il
an give some Teller that was standin'
in the way shove that nearly sent
him over
Il says ia Bob, Who's that big
slob? Why didn't you take crack a
him with the bung-starter an quiet
him down?'
I'm young yet an life Is still
sweet, says Bob. I'll send in a riot
call any time he gets too funny, but I /
don't want to waste no coppers unless
it's necessary,
- don't think thered be no blood |
lettin' just because he's got bass
voice, says. Never hear of him kill |
in anybody?
al cant say that | have says Bob (
but he run a man three blocks last (
week an think he'd have killed him !
If he'd got his hands on him. lie has /
Just about got enough drink in him
now to be ugly
"IIc's maxim too much noisc for
me says. If you don't stop him
win
"'All right says Bob. 'You write
him a note an tell him he's got TO
keep quiet an IN deliver it when he's
not lookin.'
Il don't know as ld have said any
thin If It hadn't been for that bat I'D
been lookin over at the table an sizes
Mr.. Polackcr mp. I seen a lot O beef
an heard a lot o. rumble, but ia seen
irat kind before once or twice
walked mp to the table an says
Hey your
He looked mp at me and for a min
lte ! felt Ike telling him 10 was good
but I stayed In. Cut IL OUT / says
Close up that big mouth of YOURS an
make signs for a while If you've got
anything TO say. Shut up or TN shut
,ou mp so quick ~. make your head
swim" An ! looked al him like ia
AT him Did he shut mp Well you /
pct he did. exceptin he kept his mouth
pen. You'd have thought somebody
rad hit him over the head with a |
lungshot the way he stared 8
'Thatll be about all from you this ,
line. | says
Il waited TO see If he would say
nything and then Z turned an walked
way I'd got about two steps when
Bob yelled. Watch OUT an I heard
roar an a crash behind me an saw
i'm comm. ! hadn't time to get out
4 the way. so dropped an he went
yer mo with another crash was uI.
rst. though and Z didn't wait tp see !
ha was -,iu' to make another bluff
don't know whether nc chased mo ~
ot. either 7 didn't look around "a
co."
Tic wasn't biufn thru7 aid the
ram with the druopiHe iar.
lie may have been. said tho man
18th The jumper "SffIl 2 ronci l1ed
"a drop oui that time fut an zen
raj thing if paws To- raN if there's 7
nouch in the kitfr.-Chiraso Daily
Jews.