The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-12-29
SAWED-OFF MAN OUTWITS
 GREENHUT POKER EXPERTS
Uses Getaway Stake to Retrieve Lost MoneyWns- Cold Feet and Quits the Game Strangers Who Came to Arkansas City and Moped About As If Look
 ing for Something Natives Get On.

the cmittee nor or less, an Bill Has kins he stuttered some deliverin hisself O the preliminary questions, but the stranger, he called hisself Buck Hilo, he said sort of offhand and hearty as how he was traveln' the country lookin' fir some sort O place where there'd be a openin' fir a man O his talents. 'Bill made his usual speech about the on'y two openin's there was in Green vile, an the stranger didn't hesitate none.
 "He said if twas up to him to choose awteen them two openins, he'd set into the poker game. On'y he said he wanted to have it understood as how he was playin' under compunction, so to speak, bein as he hadn't ast for to set in an more'n that, he didn't profess to be no grit of a player.
 Well, Haskins an them lowed they was liberal enough not to let anythin' O that kind interfere into a friendly game atween gentlemen, so Buck Hilo he says he's agreeable, an they begin the game offhand
 Now there want no manner O doubt [ about them four Greenville citizens ben' among the best players there was, like I said just now They was the first l ever knowed that found out how exceedin' fo'cible a crosscut raise cn be played when it pears to be desirable for to crowd a third man out
 Doe Wilson had notion as how it helped his play consd able for to watch a stranger for spell an make out what p'ticlar habits he had. An that's what he tried on Buck Hilo.
 q ain't sayn' t Buck lilo seen what he was doin', an set out deliberate for to fool him. Maybe he did an maybe he didn't, but what do say was t that little sawed off stranger-he want reely no moren five foot high-did more pug zlin' stunts at that table n ever seen afore nor since into a poker game.
 Kept Doing Fool Stunts.
 Well, he kep on doin fool stunts. It sure did look to be shame for to take his money ony he put on airs like he knowed what he was doin', an put up q argument on his hand every timeshe was beat thatd make you want to manhandle him.
 q rec'lect one time he'd ace full, an somebody bet $5 an he called. Then he laid down a flush cause twas such a lit tie on. be said. Wouldn't play it.
 Just nat rally they had him trimmed O. nigh $500 inside of half an hour, an he said he was broke. Said 1t tof able bitter, too, an cussed his luck, as he called it, somepin' scan'lous.
 "They didn't none on 'em make him no answer, but Doc Winslow he counted out the $15 what they'd took off fir kitty an showed 1t over to Buck Hilo 'thouten a word. He was fair astonished, or any way he let on he was, an he says:
 Whats this? You uns aint offerin me no charity, be ye? Pm spot enough to pay what lose an not put up no holler. I don't take no insults i'm nobody.
 "Then Bill Haskins he says: You hold your hosses, stranger. We don't offer no insults 10 nobody, more specially to no such thoroughbred you pear to be-
 "'This here money Is kitty we take out fir the loser. It's a sort O consola- tion pot, an it's took aPays, under the house rules
 An he winked at the others not to say nothin', whichs they didn't, bein' as they all felt sort O lilsn fir the pore feller. an a sort O pity fir his poker playin'.
 "So Buck Hilo he chippered up bit, an he says: Oh, sure, If that's the cus- tom, an there aint no charity into it, there aint no reason fir me not takin' it. But it's my money, is it?'
 They told him twas.
 ".An' I kin do what I blame please with it?
 They told him he could.
 "'Well, them says Buck Hilo, pullin' up to the table again, I'll set into this game fir a few minutes
 That come so sudden an unexpected that some on 'em laughed an some cussed, an they didn't know 'xactly what to do, but it struck 'em as a good joke enough to go on with, on'y Bill Hasxins he says:
 "'You know, stranger, there won't be- nc Kitty fir the loser this time
 Sure, I know that said Buck Hlo, an they begin playin' again.
 ''P free to say t I didn't see no more bad breaks into the little sawedoffs game He played close to his chest an didn't it come his deal.
 hands out then, fir by the time 1t came to him it took s.0 to play, an everybody was in. on'y O course Dick Pratt, what was the age, he still had say.
 After the draw there was quite some bettin on the sides, but Buck Hilo was all in an had a shw fir his money. When it come to the showdown he had a jack full an scooped in $75.,
 'I oont just remember the different hands that was played after that. but I do know that Buck Hilo cashed in $1700 and odd inside of an hour, an then said he had cold feet He was monstrous polite an thanked 'em for the pleasure he'd had a-playin' with 'em, but he peared to be consid able sot az in playin' any longer, and they didn't see no way O making him, so went off to the travern to bed
 !" 'Mornin' gentlemen he said, fir there in when Buck Hilo rode up in front O