The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08

strenuous. He says: This here business O.
trainin' beginners an teachir' on am the
rudiments O. draw poker g eli well enough
he says, when there's a waa in sight
There was other CUFF O. tho same sort,
but the boys want RELY unreasonable
I brought 'em to sec the wisdom O g5T.tlin
Bill Basoom SOS = h,d bunch IN 'ith he
local talent when emergencies come, an
they f1e1 up a soaiable game, some for
the purposes Of eiication, an some for to
sort O lift some strain of'n Bill Bascom on
the question o. pervidin' f'r his household.
Leastways, that's What some on 'em said.
but my idee vast they wasn't losin' sight
O that ten dollar bill.
aIf they was really thinkin' O. dom him
up they had a chanel later on to think
different. Pears like that spur O. necessity
was drove"
Into the flank o. timidity,' interrupted
a k Winterbottom morosely. The rebuke
he had received from old man Greenhut was
still ranking.
The old man stopped and looked angrily
at his critic for the space Of a full minute.
There were those who looked for another
outbreak, but they we're disappointed
AS l was sayin', he resumed, "the spur o.
necessity was drove into Bill Bascom's
innards with a firm hand, an he wiggled
desp'rate. The first hand he got when they
begin playin' want nothin', IN he didn't
come in, but the next deal 1t was his ante,
an he put up his quarter call 80 cents.
There was three on 'em come in, an he raised
it 81, an one dropped, but 'tother two
stayed, an he had a pot O. IS afore the draw
to play for.
when it cam to the draw he took two
cards, an Bassett an Pearsall that was
playin', each on EN- took one. O. course,
that left all sorts O. chances ag'in his three O.
a kind, an ! cd see he were some shook,
but he set still an seen Bassett bet his IS
an Pearsall raise him five afore he looked
at his draw. Then he looked an seen he'd
made a full, 30 he just nach'ally pushed his
chips all into the pot.
Then it was Bassett's turn to lose conf
dence, but he too a chanel on calm, any
how, an Bill Bascom was some twenty
WINNER, not countin' the side money t
Bassett took on a small flush. e
"Hit looked some like real money to
Bascom, seem he hadn't had none fr some
time, m l I'D see he was lookin' at 1t sort
o. hard, SOS I his fate was really shiverin' In
the Dalance ike. FL NO was 10 quiz an go
home with his thirty, 'twa'n't none likely
It he'd soon be no more'n a piker, but ef
he was to keep on there was the makin's Of
q man into him.
well, he KEEP on. It we're his deal next
an / took notice t he handled the deck
more carefuller n I'd ever saw him do 1t
afore. It's them lit le things t counts in
playin' poker, an / were some oheered,
bein' as I'd picked him fr q player. an a
man ~naoh'ally likes to See his judgment
justified.
There wa'n't nothin' diddin' on Basoom's
deal, 30 they made q jackpot, bein' two fifty
to start, an Bascom en- the dealers right,
which, O. course, were a good Aeat. Jim
Waters dealt, an Bassett opened it under
the guns. Pete Kenny, he were still
a-lookin' FIR that royal flush t he made later
on, an he come in, havin' the ace an queen O.
diamonds to draw to, but Pearsan, he folded.
bringin' it up to Bascom, II bein' q FIVE
handed game.
well, Bascom, he made It five to play,
bein' as there was two In an on'y one man
to hear from. an Waters, havin' three small
ones, thought he o'dsee five dollars worth in
1t for him. Bassett had opened on two