Bisbee daily review., 1907-07-04

town to town. displaying Woltstone's accomplishments and collecting quart CTS for the privilege of observing them. He would go into a mining town. head straight for the best pat ronized saloon, and leading the bulro to the bar would call for the drinks. When the bartender would hand out the bottle and one glass, Paddy would roar:
 1.-Two it is. Don't yez see I've gintleman with me7D
 With a grin of wonder the barl.y would pass out another glass.
 Will ye tfke it straight, me sye, CT floatir'. Paddy would ask Of the burro, and when the animal reflective ly closed ons eye he'd push the bottle over. saying
 Straight i; is. Yen not mead the mug at all, at all.'
 Then the Rlrro would grip the neck of the bottle with his teeth, throw up his head and drain every drop before he put it back carefully on the bar.
 That triei', or course. would make bit with th miners. The news would go out. and in few minutes the sa- loon would Je packed with people cu- rious to see the wonderful buTr9. After Paddy had conducted Wolfstone through his repertoire and collected all the loose change the crowd would con- tribute he'd manage to get into poker game. the burro always beins an interested observer. Somehow CT other Paddy's luck was invariably good. He seemed to know when just to stay in, just when to stand pat, o= just when to call. His winnings were never very big, but when he got up he always had a few dollars more than when he sat down.
 After a while. when Paddy and his burro became more or less familiar in the camps, this uniformity of his luck begun to be noticed and wondered at, and in course of time it occurred to some one that the burro might have something to do with it. It was ob- served that Wo,fstcne invariably stood at one side of the table opposite his master. and that he watched the game, apparently with as thorough an under standing of it's points as any other spectator. It was also observed that he had peculiar way of wagging his ears at such times, and after close study the observers reached the con clusion, startling as it was. that Wolf stone knew the cards and signaled his opponents hands to Paddy. For in stance, they found that when the burro drew down both ears iE front twice in succession it turned out that the player by him held two pairs. When he threw down one ear three times one of three of kind.
 Throwing both ears back appeared to be the sign for a full house, and straight flush was a forward and back.
 Ut was at Crede, believe, that this discovery was made. and three of Pad dys victims who had made the dis covery entered into a conspiracy to get even. Wolfstone had become by this time a confirmed lusher. He had to have his bottle as regularly as Pad dy himself, and the conspirators took advantage of his appetite for strong drink to the undoing of his master. They got about a gallon of the cheap est stuff they could buy, and slipping into Wolfstone's comfortable stall, in duced him to imbibe until he could see anywhere from six to ten men instead of the three actually there. Then they left their vengeance in the hands of fate.
 That evening they got Milligan into a game. Faithful but erring Wolf stone was on hand just as usual and and apparently as sober as anybody. They played. a pretty stiff game right from the start, but, much to Paddy's surprise and chagrin. he lost. The bUrro was wigwagging to beat the band, but the wires seemed to be crossed. Wien Paddy thought he was playing against lone pair and had a sure thing he found on the show down he'd been bucking four of a kind, and after he'd pulled out on flush signal he learned that his opponent had nothing better than ace high.
 Sure an the divil himself is in the cards. I niver played to such luck in me loife' he grumbled, and then he broke one of his inflexible rules, which was never to drink while he played. The more he lost the more he drank, and the more he drank the madder he got He insisted that the limit be pried off, and theL he bet high and wild All the time Wolfstone Sas doing his level best to get things straight, but he could see that some thing was wrong, and the harder he tried the worse they appeared to get. At alst Paddy had lost every cent he had, and then he put up the burcc, the loved companion of many years.
 It's betrayed me ye have he says am ye might as well go in vita the rist' And 'go in with the rist' he did In ten minutes more the ownership of Wolfstone had passed to the eonspirl-