The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-08-10
Woman Kicked on Poker
But Bud Stopped Her
(New York SUM

There's them that's aIays kiekin', F"
said old man Greenhut, IAN there's
them that's aPays kickin' ag'in it. But
what's the use? If a man is gOin 10
kick, you can't stop him, no more'n
you can mule It's afflicted thataway,
an faint no use for to kick about il.
Thing to do is to let him kick, an get
square on him some other way. That
is p'vidin' the kickin' is anyways in
| furious to your peace o mind, which it
sure is i'm case of a mule, an it's liable
to be when it's a man.
| 20 course there amt no stOppin Of
| a mule if he's goin' to kick. Ony thing
is 20 get square with him. an that en-
be did with a CAD or a blacksnake
whip, or a piece O. scantlin' if there
amt nothin' else handy. Case of a
man it's different. 'Tain't afays the
part O. wisdom to pull gun, or even
to lick a man. cause he kicks, an
moral suasiOn don't aIays work even
| if you swat him with a bungstarter-
/ but there's mostly ways o maxim
man see tn error of his ways 'thouten
KILN of him. But when woman be-
| gins kickin, pears like faint no use
! for to talk On'y thing to do is what
we all gently does when the old Mis-
sipp' rolls down one o them eg'lar
spring floods. We just sets back an
lets her roll
| Well" said Mr.. Pepper, with queer
| smile Il know how one man stopped
woman FIN kickin' 'thOuten beatin
her up an 'thouten liftin' finger to
her"
Wonderful" exclaimed the old man
with fine sarcasm. An what d nc do
1t WITH"
Draw poker" said Mr.. Pepper
"Oh. come now exclaimed old man
Greenhut, profoundly agitated. There
hain't no use gettin sacrilegious. Draw
poker amt no subject FIR fippancy
we all knows what beneficient inven-
ton o. Providence draw poker is. but
faint no miracle worker Sides,
women don't play draw poker Least
WAYS, ] don't b'Iieve they do. I've
heer'd of it, but hain't never saw it
This here want no case of a woman
pIayin' poker" replied Mr.. Pepper
calmly. "Sophronia Gilchrist didn't
know a bobtailed flush FIN blue emp.
faint likely. FIR one thing, she didn
have brains enough for TO remember
the diff erence more N ten minutes II
ANYBODY was to take the trouble TO
'xplain il to her, n another reason
was I she wouldn't never listen TO no.
body t was tryin' to teach her anything
useful. More n that, she hated draw
poker like pizen, same rs she peared
for to hate anything I made people
happy, bein' soured in her disposition
an not carin nothin' about DOtnin,
on'y religion.
"When Bud Gilchist was a-cOurtin' of
her lust naturally she didn't Jet him
see nothin' o this. him bein' a fine,
strappin' Teller with a wad; but when
they told her he were some Wlld an
PLAYED poker an bet on cOckflSht
now an again, she just smiled that
sour little smile o hern an said she
hot 71ra nm
"WeIl. she tended to it. all right.
Dive ever see a man hObble a runnin
horses four feet all together, an start
him in a race, n then prod him with
CAD count o. him not gOin' like he'd
ought? %
He paused, but nobody seemed to
think it worth while to answer, so ne
continued: We'll. that's about what
Sophronia Gilchrist done. First Of she
got Buds money all away I'm him, an
then begin hectorin' of him, count o
him not fetchin' in more. I've knOwed
him to go a week 'thOuten tobacco, be-
in too proud to beg, an not haVln'
the price As for workin'. o course ne
couldn't. his business bein' draw poker
an her not givin' up the price Of a 1
stack.
Time this d gone on fr year or
two. Bub 'peared to realize I sOmepin |
had to be did He come TO me, bein'
him an me had been pals ever since
we was little
81 amt sayin' nothin' agin SOphro-
nv, he saws She amt nOthin' but
woman. an | reckon women is pretty
much all alike. On'y they IS times
when it pears to me she's some on
reasonable. l reckon thet's count o
bein' woman, too, but talnt none
easier for that. Pears like nOthin' suits
If get up early she kicks long o
me disturbin' of her. If l lay aDed
late she kicks count o me bein lazy !
When | give her the money l had she
kicked cause / win it at poker; an |
now there amt any money TO play
with she kicks. bein' as l don't fetch |
none in. l reckon she must THINK II
grows on trees. How en- l get any |
money 'thouten some to set in with?'
We'll l couldn't tell him snothin.
bein' some cautious about gettin' be /
tween man an wife, an things goes
on till Bud gets desprit, SOphronia /
kickin' all the time wuss an wuss as /
times gets harder, till bimeby they /
amt nothin to eat in the house an she
nigh kicked the roof off
Finally one night Bud comes to me- |
an I cd see he was considerable het |
up. So 1 give him plug O tobacco /
afore he cd say anyJhin' an I'm the |
way he bit into il 1 recxOned he hadn't 4
had nothin' atween his teeth FIR quite /
a spell.
Then he says 'Owney, I haint new
er borried a cent in my life, an don't /
know whether I'll ever pay this back /
or not. but L want you to loan me !
s.. So says l. Sure, Bud. but 50 won't /
do much good. Why don't you take /
some real money! I'll stake you But /
no. all he wants is five
Then he goes out, an / trails along, /
some curious about what he's gOin' to |
do. An he goes straight up to the /
tavern where there's most gently a |
game goin' on in the back room, like
they is here sometimes an he walks
straight in like he'd ulster do a couple /
o. year afore.
There was a game on all right. an
when he comes in they made him right
welcome bein' as Bud was alays well
liked afore he was married. Jim Sem
pie an Charlie Dobbs an Bill an
Harry Virgins was In the game an
a stranger FIN Vicksburg that nobody !
knowed, but called hisself Dick Har-
per.
Charlie Dobbs sings out. Coin to
take a hand. Bud?' An Bud says he
lows he will if it's agreeable. So he