The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-01

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twenty.
Once mors' said win'~rbo,'om
and again.
sOuce mrrs.s
And ten
Then Wi~ntsrhottom STUDIED sni mad
good. Newton took one card and Winter.
bottom two II being W~interbottom's first
play, hs b~t q white chip. Newton raised
II ten. and Winterbottom called with three
scrs.
Then Newton showed down a hush, four
cards of which were straight. Whatever
could be said OF hs play IL vas certainly
not ~cowardly.
On Newton's deal they made n Jackpot,
and Blaisdell took the deck. At the very
beginning ~ the game It WA hardly "a he
expected that any remarkable hands would
DO held.
Whistler II was that Blaisdell had been
stirred to great activity by the events Of
tho earlier evening. or whether one ~
those mysterious things happened that
will happen sometimes To the beat regulated
decks Of cards, without human design an
unusual contest was Immediately pre-
cipitated.
Haskins had auted and Bassett and Win
terbottom came in. Widdicomb raised IL
ten and Pearsall made it ten more Then
Newton, who had been watching the play
with keen interest, said:
There was some fool talk about a limit
when VIC begin this game. l amt sayin'
who said IL. Mebbe I mought "a ben
the fool. but il sort o. to me like il
was nigh time to change this 10 table
stakes.
faint quite reg lar. I know, for TO make
a change, on'y tween deals. but il there
amt nobody to raise objections l don't
know but what we've got q right TO do il.
Anybody objectl"
Nobody did. and they ooked for him TO
play, but he still hesitated.
This here hand o. mine" he said, lis one
% them Z hadn't ought for to he insulted
by no p4ltry play. How'd it be IL l was to
put . thousand dollars on the table along
side o. my chips afore I beta'
Nc objection was made TO hat either.
but a. he dug for his thousand. it might
have been noticed that each of the other
PLAYERS produced a wad Of bills which
he laid In his pile on the table.
This having been adjusted. Newton
made good for the last bet. n put a hum
dred dollars In the pot besides.
Blaisdell said nothing. but no trailed.
Haskins made II another hundred, and
Bassett and Winterbottom trsiled, So did
Widdioomb and Pearsall. everybody play
inr with cheerful confidence. but most OF
the players waiting to see what would be
done.
Newton made it two hundred more and
Blaisdell trailed. Then Haskins put up his
nile. which as they found when they
counted IL amounted to thirteen hundred.
including what he had already bet. II was
a little more thar any Of the others had in
sight, but each player at the table came in
for his pile.