The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-10-20

maxim tol'sbie good money fr a two dollar
limit game afore the draw.
so took two cards an chipped a white
chip 'thou.en lifin' his cards to see what
he had, bein' "a Baxter had took two an
Norris one. an there wa'n't no tellin'
they was liable to do.
Well, Baxter, he rosc IL s. an Norris
h'istedi IL again. so Sol he look dat his cards,
What he fourd was two sevens, an just
naturally he was Some stirred up
He fingered his chips kind o careful,
an he says. I sure am sorry said any
thing about n limit when we begin. Looks
TO me like Id enjoy givin' you gazaboes a
swat Z d make you set up. But ! reckon
all ] en- do is 70 call on you fr two more
IL you want to sec this hand. It's cheap.
You'll find it wuth lookin' at
HE was just shown his chips for'srd
when Baxter says. Take OF the limit Z
you feel like it. l amt kickin'.' An
Norris. he says. Go % far as you like
so then they looked at the other two.
They wasn't in the pot, but o course.
'twa'nt regular for TO change the game
right in he middle of a deal 'thouten all
hands was agreeable.
but Merriwether said, i never did care
nothin' fr a limit game. nehow.' An the
range he says. I'm agreeable 80 Sol
SAYS, Well. then. IL the e ain't NJ objections
I'd like to push thisa along about $40 worth
An he puts up the money.
Baxter. he says. I sse your $40 an l go
YOU $40 more An Norris says" Looks like
hat amt hardly enough. nv hands
worth fifty more II it's worth a cent
sSoi didn't say nothin'. What he did
was to reach down in his cic'es an dig up q
tol'able thick wad. Then ne q out
money enough TO cover what money was zap
an he laid Ave one hundred dollar bills with
it an pushed the hull lot in the middle o
II saws to me after. I wanted to bet
enough SOS t they'd, think vas oiunin.'
an mebbea raise. an anyway. I'd get more
on a bet like hat nor would to pike along
-The way it come, he was right. Baxter
laid down an Norris called, shown down
a ace high flush. no. o. course Sol took the
.TRat left EN- some sore & they'd took
IN thisl limit. but they couldn't say nothin,
an they all 'pesred to be maxim 2 dead
set at Sol I'm that on ~. ned p'sysd better
med more'n likely they'd eat him up
between 'em all, bein' az they was expert
an him on'y a beginner, You mought nay.
They didn't though. He played toFable
well TT a~yOun8SteT AL hc
his shar 9 o. luck, as he KEEP on gettin'
ahead an they KEEP gettin' sorer. special
the stranger. him losn' some more'n his
fair an proper share.
a'Peared like he wa'n't 'customed o
losin'. and yet he want overly confident
about tryin' any O. them little 'xpediencies
Z give him more OF less p'centage on the
game. He seen I there was them piayin' d
Be liable for to catch on.
$50 it went on, Sol winnin'. but nothin'
unreasonable, an the stranger nursin' his
Crouch till it got too big bold to.
Come q hand when Sol was a-dealin',
an everybody come In. round TO him.
He raised It an q round again, every
body stayin' til 1t come to tho stranger.
at him an then the Others dropped, all but
the stranger, an he just made good.
aOn the draw he look two cards, havin'
three tens, az We seen later, but Sol
laughed an said no reckoned he'd worry
along with what he'd got. Well, the stranger
made a ten full an bet some furious fr a
81 ell, think'n' he'd likely beat any pat
fr his pile. I was nigh eight hundred, he
showed down four sevens. an the stranger
billed over sudden.
ale yelled out. That's q crooked DEAL
an he Jumped up f'm his chair an pulled
q gun while he was sayin' 1t, . I says to
myself it's all up with Sol, Known he was
some slow. most times.
real emergency, an he was up. too, quicker'n
scat. An what happened then was sure
sSoi reached out With them long arms O.
his'n n catched tho stranger ~ the mid
dc en- tore him bocoe firm ttH nooy, He
wss stronger n %. - > eengsa = D.
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