The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-26
OVERDOSE OF
~ FATAL.
Two Deais JGst Allie That Ended
q River Poker Game.

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pose. The way I look at It, o mans con-
science 10 give TO him, same as his other
facilities. for to help him along In tho world.
But there 10 them % don't pear to have no
sense O. fitness. Stead o. usin' O con-
science f'r to help theiuelves they lows
their COINCIDENCE fr TO use them. An Q
conscience sure is q heap like q woman.
Onoet you put 'em In the saddle they'll
ride you. hell TO breakfast. 'thouten any
sense or any mercy.
"The way I look at II, there amt no one
thing Il q conscience Ia good for It's moro
important nor II Is to sec Z everybody gfts
what rightly belongs to. him. IN It's every
I mans duty for to ogit his own. Stands to
reason faint no part Of any mans busines
! for to be lookin' out t other folks gits what's
comm to them. # they can't look out for
1t their ownselves faint comm to 'em.
Nigh hand to. where I lived In Mississippi
afore I took TO the river there was o Teller
Z growed up time I did Z had an old man
t took q heap O. pains eddicatin' OF him.
I never seer q boy as well brought up as
Bill Nipple was. 'Peared like the old maj
wouldn't never let up on him. Licked him
day an night. an when he hadn't done
nothin' out o. the way tn old man d lick
him f'r fear he would do somepin.''
There was some thought he wal over
dom Of 1t, n the preacher 7 lived In the
next house to old man Nipple used to argy
with him. Brother Hipple,' he'd say, you'd
| ought for to take thought O. that boys
futur'. II you 90 IN lickin' the stuffin'
outer him the way you do, youth break
bis speerit. An besides,' he says, its most
mighty annoyin' to the ~neighbors for to
hear him yell the way he does.'
there was one thing tn be said fr old
man Ripple. He sure was pious, m there
want nothin' further I'm his mind n to
speak disrespectful to a preacher, 80 he
listened, quiet, an didn't get mad. But
he shook his head, an he says: Ireckon
you're wrong about breakin' his sperr1t;
| Brother Snihan. I m al'ays careful to tell
that boy t the on.y way be on git square
fr bein' licked Is to lick somebody else.
| Consequence Is, he's the best fighter Of his
are an weight in the hull county. I'm
| proud Of him. But the old man says,
| there's one thing you say, as Is sure Inn
p~ortant. II my boy is a disturbin' OF the
n~eighbors by yelin', III give him a all
fred good icldn' for it.
But all that's neither here mol there,
'xceptin' as shown how thorough Bill
Nipple was educated. Ha cd shoot q pin
outer q pincushion at twenty yards With a
revolver, an he was the best man In Miss
issippi in q rough and tumble when he was
tventy-one. He al'ays had his weapins In
| order. He told me onoet that the worst
| lickin' his dad ever gave him was for lettin'
| his bowie knife get rusty. I knowed
him to put q drop O. water In his vhiskey,
| an the old man had taught him to play
| poker fore he was ten years old.
@Then, when he was twenty-one, the old
man give him q dollar an turned him outen
doors. I've did my duty by you,' be says.
I've KEEP you, an fed you, an dedicated
| you careful, an now it's up to you. Fyou're
a man, you'll prove It, an when you've
made your pile you'll como back an take
the mortgage ofY'n the old place. I've
rose you fr that, n II you've got the con.
science I've strove to beat into you, you'll
do your duty
II told Bill Z no man couldn't ask fr no
fairer start n that. His old man might ha'
'peared some hash at times, but he'd sure
did his duty, an bein' as Bill had the kind
OF a dedication he had, the hull world lay
fair afore him.
bill, he didn't say nothin'. 1t were q
part O. the dedication the old man had give
him not to talk back. Then he did q
monstrous queer thing.
'sHe were q walkin' toward the river
when I seen him an he told me what d
happened. Then he took the dollar outen
| his pocket, an he says That's the first
| dollar tn old man ever give me. an I'm
what he says I reckon it'll DO tho last.
'Peas to me I don't much keer for IT, An
- lido t. .~~1.t xko mad tptN the fall
grass. It took me half q hour to find II
after he was gone. Then he went on toward
| the river, an'Hall's I heer'd Of him r. q long
time was t he'd went aboard one o. the boats
an got some sort Of q job.
Must ha' been all o 1--WE year aiore I
seen him again. an by that time I was
runnin' tn bar on tn old Prairie Belle.
Twas q boat I'm up North t run I'm st.
Louis to Memphis. Bill Nipple come aboard
at Cairo, goin' South, an 1t didn't take
two looks to tell I he were q sure enough
| pYessional by that time. He were dressed
like the Professionals did, an he had diamonds
enough onto him fer to feed chickens with.
They was a pal o. hisn ira vellin' with
| him, t were as handsome dressed az Bfl,
but want half 90 good lookin'. He was
some like lightnin', though. when II come
to dealin' cards, an him an Bill was playin'
poker with three Texas drovers fore W
was more'n a hour I'm Cairo.
1One O. them drovers-George Patton.
they called him-was co~nsid'able Of q dab
ster hisseff In the matter o. handling cards.
an 'twa'n't long afore he was watchin'
| Hammond - that was Nipples pal-an'
watohin' Of him right sharp. I Vas lookin'
on an I seen Patton lookin' at the other
two drovers, considerable intelligent like
while Hammond was dealin', but there
wa MT nothin' said-not Just then, there
want
There naought ha' been somein' to lock
at n the deal, too, tudgin'by the showdown.
This here Patton were the age. an he'd
anted two dollars call five. Then one o.
the other .Texsns-they was two brothers
n named Sweet-he come In, an Nipple, he
ra ised 1t five.
THAT let the other sweet out, but Ham,
mond, he stayed an looked at Patton,
some like he was expectin' for to SEQ 1t
raised again. But Patton he throwed
his cards down, 'thouten a word, An Sweet
he seen the raise, sayin' nothin'. too. o.
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