The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-28
THE WOMAN KICKED
I ON DRAW POKER
But She Shut Up, All Right, When
Bud Won Out and Then
Drowned Himself.

II a man In goin' TO kick, you can't stop
him, no more'n you can a mule Us
afflicted thateway, an 'tgin't no use for to
kick about il. Thing to DO is to let him
kick, an get square on him some ether way.
That is, p'vidin' the kickin' is apyways in
furious to your peace o mind. which IL
sure is in case OF "A mule. an it's liable to
he when it's a man.
90 course. there amt no stoppin' Of n
mule if he's goin' TO kick. On'y thing is
10 get square with him, an that en- be did
with a CAD or a blacksnake whip. or a piece
o. s%cantlin' il there amt nothin' else handy.
Case Of a man it's different. 'Tain't alays
the part O wisdom to pull a gun, or even
to lick a man cause he kicks, an moral
suasion don't sl'ays work even if you swat
him with a bungstarter. but there's mostly
ways O. maxim a man see tn error OF his
ways 'thouten KILN of him. But when a
woman begins kickin'. pears like faint no
use for to talk. Only thing to do is what
we all gently does when the old MISSISSIPPI
rolls down one o. them regular spring floods.
We lust sets back an let's her roll"
Il knowed a man, oncet. up in the Ozarks,'
said Jake W~interbottom, stopped a woman
FIRM kickin'.'
what" exclaimed old man Greenhut.
whose aLtonishment was too great for
him to say anything more. Winterbottom
only nodded.
The others in the room were as greatly
surprised as the old man, but they took
IL differently. -Jake's gettin' bughouse
In his old age" said Sam Pearsall. and
jim Blaisdell said with ironical zeal: -Ill
shoot any son OF a gun that says Jake
winterbotton lies. That is, I would "a
shot him five minute ago"
mo, Jake didn't lie.' said Joe Bassett.
the big sheriff. gravely. But what he'd
t'other side a spell. reckon maybe he'd
dream some di6'rent IL he was to-
That's all right. boys said Winterbot.
tom, wholly unmoved. i knowed a mar
oncet, up in the Ozarks. stopped a woman
I'm kickin'."
Did they hang him?' asked Bassett,
with professional zeal
so course they would a hung him IL they'd
knowed she was dead, but they didn't.
They knowed he'd beat her up a heap, an
they wouldn't stand for it. but they knowed
she were a kicker. too. an the Teller put
up SIGH a strong argument on that they
let him of easy. just tarred an feathered
him an drove him out. When they found
out he'd really heat her to death they
looked for him again, but he-d got away
But he sure did stop her kickin'."
well" said old man G~reenhut. after a
little pause, that's nigh about the same
thing I was sayin'. There amt nothin'
but q hole in the ground IN stop IT,
oh. ] don't know said Mr. owen Pepper
MI. Owen Pepper was not exactly a
stranger in Arkansas City. for he had visited
the town before, but he was not a favorlte
with old man G~reenhut, being one Of the
few persons who we're not impressed by
that philosophers wisdom and taking a
somewhat malicious pleasure in confuting
him now and then. He wasa liberal spender
- .-I IranH hta UhIQE0V and afA
his tobacco in Greenhut's saloon. with
great regularity whenever he was in Ar
kansas City.
and waited a moment for MIR. Pepper to
continue. A nothing more was forth
coming. he said: Il reckon you're right
about that. Probly, what you, don't
know is more n any other man in Arkansas.
whv don't you talk about what you do
know? You cd tell us the hull o that in
Ave minutes an we wouldn't get so tired
well said Mr.. Pepper. with a queer
woman I'm kickin' 'thouten beatin' her up
an 'thouten liftin' a finger to her.
Wonderful" exclaimed the old man
with fine sarcasm. An what d he do IL
with2"
Draw poker" said Mr.. Pepper.
"Oh, come nowl" exclaimed old man
Greenhut. profoundly agitated. There
hain't no use gettin' sacrilegious Draw
poker ain Z no buDJcCJ HtPpduCls VIC
ali knows what a beneicent invention O.
miracle worker. Sides. women dom play
draw poker. Leastways, l don't b'ieve
they do. I've herd Of it, but | hain't
This here want no case Of a woman
plsyin' poker" replied Mr., Pepper calmly.
lSophronia Gilchrist didn't know n bob
tailed flush I'm a blue chip. Taint likely.
enough for to remember the diff renee
more n ten minutes IL anybody was to
take the trouble to 'xplain IL TO her, n an
other reason was Z she wouldn't never
listen to nobody y, was tryin' TO teach
her ANYTHING useful More n that, she
hated draw poker like pizen, same an
she 'peared for to hate anything Z made
people happy. bein' soured in her disposi-
lion an not carin' nothin' about nothin',
when Bud Gilchrist was a-courtin' Of
her lust naturally she didn't let him see
nothin' o. this, him bein' a fine. strappin'
Teller with a wad: but when tney tolo ner
he we're some wild an played poker an
bet on a cockfight now an again, she
lust smiled that sour little smile o hcrn
an said she reckoned she cd tend to That
late. on NJ.
ever zee a man hobble a runnin horses four
feet all together, an start him in a race, n
then prod him with a CAD count o MIN not
goin' like bed ought?'' ,.
lie Ddu8eO, DuL nODOuy tNIIlV W. SihhN !"
worth while to answer, 40 he continued:
well, that's about what Sophronia Gil
christ done. First on she got u money
all away I'm him, an then begin hectorin OF
him. count o. him not fetchin' In mora. I've
knowed him to go a week 'thouten tobacco.
helm too proud to beg. an not havin' The
price. Is FOR workin', o course he Couldn't,
his business bein' draw poker. an her not
givin' up the price OF a stack.
Time this d gone on fr a year or Two,
Bud 'peared to realize Z somepin' had TO be
did. He come to me. bein' him an me had
been pals ever since we was little.
Il amt sayin' nothin' agin Sophrony,
he says. She amt nothin' but a woman,
an reckon women is pretty much all aiiKe,
On'y thew il times when it pears to me
she's some unreasonable. I reckon thet's
count o. bein' a woman too. but faint
nome easier for that. tcGTs Ike noti''n,
sIit.. 1. | get up early she kicks long o
me disturbin' OF her. II Ivy ahed late she
kicks count o. me bein' lazy, When give
her the money / had she kicked cause
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