The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-20
CREENHUT'S NEPHEW
" FOUND HIMSELF.
Threw a Stranger Through the
Window and Got the Easy Job
He Wanted.

1T sure is plumb wonderful" said old
maj Greenhut, what draw poker'll do FIR
q man when all the other means o. grace
10 measly failures. Pears like it's been
chose by Providence f'r to pervide a ladder
fr Q man to climb outep his troubles, onto
the top o. the dungheap o. prosperity"
.Oh, I don't know said MIR. Owen Pep
per. There is them that wins, an they're
liable for TO land On the d~ungheap all right,
n they win often enough, an persistent.
But there's them that lands in the. hog
wallow I'm draw poker, too. Pears some
times like there's more o. the one nor there
ia o. other
Old man Greenhut looked at him for a
Pew moments ~ IL mildly surprised. Then
he looked around at the assembled com
rsny. turning slowly from one to another
rs il looking for an answer to some I'M
spoken question in his mind.
Then he cast his eyes upward NJ il sup
plicating heaven for strength to bear up
under a sore afaiction. Then he looked
back a. Mr.. Pepper and his Eyes flashed.
Il reckon the. good Lord must "a made
YOU. long o. some other puzzles He's done
let loose onto s~ufferin' humanity he said.
But he pears 10 been toI'able hard put to =
when it come TO fittin' you up. An m
where on earth I reckon there must be n
dumb mule, bein' a. his conversational
powers was gave to you.
"if you knowed enough to fall down. in
stead of up, when you stub your toe. you'd
come q understand az how them that's
ruined at the card table is them that don't
nlsy draw poker. They on'y him they
know how to play.
"Fharo Uaa n ppvyv ~ nina name O. mol
Greenhut, that came to Greenv:lle to look
round for a opening when I was tendin'
bar over there. He want 'xactly lookin'
fr a job, tr.in' as he didn't pear to have no
special call fr workin'. Settin' round
Feared to suit him more, an bavin' some
little money o. his own. he kind o. lowed
he'd open a Office or a store where he cd
hire somebody else to do the work.
"He want just easy to suit. an while
he was settin' round maxim up his mind
iust what'd be best for to be did he kind
a. got into the way o. playin' poker, there
holm a tol'able good game in the back
room o. jim Holson's saloon, where ! was
workin' at the time. .
Now. Sol want no born genius. an
didn't look for him to make no gre't sue
cess o. playin' poker, more special as there
"ds tltHU Httltu III ~ VIC Wv "' So
ss was qualified for to win the pinfeathers
oHcn a srchangel. But l knowed he'd
have 70 learn for himself sooner or later,
an mebbe il d be fr the best for to learn
into a expert gane.
~ ever there was a youngster h
needed the refnin' influences an the up
hftin' tendencies o. draw poker for TO de-
velop his moral character Sol Greenhut
did He was slower than cold molasses an
that backward Z he had to turn round
10 git into the house.
He cd fight like a wildcat when he wal
stirred up. but IL Dol somepin' like & earth
quake TO stir him up. An he was toPabie
sure to do the right thing when he seeu
what the right thing wa but he didn'
gently see. 'thouten there was q nash o
lightpin' for to see by. ! couldn't see Z
nothin' else but draw poker was Liable
for to do him a powerful heap o good.
ANS he wanted was a sort o stinenin
UP. An II draw poker don't put that into
No. nothin' will.
mere come a game n night afteI
Sol had been playin' three or four weeks
when it looked to me like he was goin
plumb through to the n o. what money
he'd got outen his dads estate. They wal
playin' some stiff. an Roy Baxter an Pets
Msrriwethsr an Vim Norris was ssttin
In. ',oag With . stranger I'm T-snnssss'