The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-25

along in two fathom o. salt water. I'm
adesp sea spyy, an tn windlAmmer' rr
Where dye hail nom, pair my man
asked the sailor.
TIL littls OF town Up tn beat, were
youse fellies comes from replied the sailor.
n that vas about all.
Il settled again. but I've got a sneaking
sort OF an idea yet that that, too. was a
kind Of a frame up and that the man I
made the bet with had probably got bit on
IL himself before l drifted along and so be
took II out on me.
win thing. and one night when we were
playing poker and about ready 10 knock on
for half an hour for a breath OF air one Of
the chaps in the game said to mot .
How about the ladies' sitting around
In the music room-odd or even? Take
whichever YOU like for twenty n You
might as well gimme now-you can't cop,
whichever y on take.'
That oocksrre wav Of his riled me,
and I made IL odd for the $50. We strolled
into the music room, and there we're just
eight ladies' sitting around the piano. Stung
again.
AN right said my man then. Now,
here's a get back chance; There are eight
mt sic presently. This is my first visit in
the mi sic room, and yours, TOO, j believe.
So | don't know which OF these ladies' plays,
and neither do you. III Law you s to 1
bhdL yOu Cdu I PlCh OuJ buc NV w II Lubb
get UP on b piano stool and hand us a few
chords
Il told him to hunch the price to u 20 1
and I'd be there. Then I picked out a
about music and who looked as IL che could
pick up a piano and just run away with il
when IL came TO that key punching thing.
I'D hardly bet my twenty bones before
q fet, middle aged woman, at the far n
Of the group, waddled over TO the piano
stool NC did stunts on it that made me
lonesome to see my wife, It was such gor-
geo''s strf. l lose again.
The grill had bet on sang some a while
later, but she had to get tie fat woman 10
lay her accom- ailments, because she her
self couldn't 7 lay a note. Fine for me. ]
sure was a great riker on that boat
eEvery one OF EN- in the crowd took a
hack at me before tie steamer reached New
Orleans The rpreer Of the slip was a
fine looi ing elderly man. q rim ger for Prince
Bismarck and as bald as Rismarcl with
Just a little tuft Of gray hairs at the bach
Of TIE crown Of his bead. He was a oorAipg
good fellow.
me IN to that roint asl' ed me 70 tai e my
chcice, odd or even, ss to Il . hairs in Il .
prrse-'s head fell for $50 worth Of the
even end Of 10 that time, and then we went
into the rurser's cabin ard Re al liRir gly
consented TO rave the hairs in that little
, tor tuft Of his counted.
"Tt ere we're exactly forty-three-we
counted EN- over four tinres-and once
more it was me for TIE hand slide into the
narl eers. ] couldn't get riOft.
"Curin9 a lrll in the betting game one
: night hslf a dozen ~ TIE layers v ere sitting
| around in TIE smol ing room telling stories
az how thev'd been mscerated by heavily
Waved long shots in the course Of their
h0oliro careerS.
! story OF Rill's again I said to the a
sitting alongside Of mo, about that time
Wallv Fesaenden gave him the hook W hen
Wally put his Pass Book Tlug over at 200
10 L.,
WAYS he denended upon to unsling that
wall of his about the way Fessenden had
dented him 70 the tune of $40, 600 on the Pass
Book thing when the long shot narratives
bcpan TO Az, and il looked a pine TO me thai
he'd uncoil the warn aoain nigh there.
"'Bst you a hundred he doesn't say q
word about the Pass Book thing was the
corne' ark Of the NAV TO WHOM I'd made
the observation, and then I figured for
Il hadn't any sooner said that the bet
was made, however. before Bill got up,
yawned, stretched his arms, and said that
he guessed it d he him for the hay. Then
he turned in, without ary a word about that
Pass Book jarTinR. Another hundred pulled
out Of pe, something soft.
Il lost the last bet just before we got
OF the ship, too. Tn bookie Of the crowd
who had won the biggest bundle on the
pools and side bets and things during the
trim was one of these fellows who always
profess TO be a loser.
ITO hear him he'd never had a winning
day at the track or anywhere else in his
life. II was a sort of bug with him to always
claim to be a loser, no matter how far out
! in front he hapreued to be.
IN bet that son Of . gun says, before
we leave the shin. that he's lost money on
this ride l said 10 my cabin mate as we
were gathering our trans together.
Bet you a hundred he doesn't he came
right back at me, for they all could see
bv this time that I was just something
made to be knocked down.
Il took him on that hundred, We got
our traps to@6tler a~d jo' 81 the bur Oh on
deck. ard the first thin0 w. heard was the
chro- ic loser talking to the ga~e.
1--we COPIED more'n twertv-eight hum
saving, gloatinelv, to the bunch. Pretty
You must ride lack with me on one OF
these boats when the New Orleans meetings
over
THAT settled il. Pittsburg Phil claimed
TO have once PLAYED twenty-five straight
losers, but l had him beat a mile on that
sea VOYAGE.
Me for the through sleeper to New Or
leans this time. want 20 have something
left 70 gamble on the horses with when |
get down there. No more steamer rides
' it'll | ookmakers ! o'Ind for a ii ter meet
irg for little (lauCie. I've ca" celled my
weml ership in the Sleep Duckers' Associa-
ton