The sun., 1907-08-11

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WELL he says. I reckon you're right
about that. hain't felt was ready till
now, but now't I've saw them tinhorns play
| amt sure but what cd swat 'em one or
two good ones. don't know but I'll try
IL tonight.
well. he comes in that night, accordin'. q.
just as old Judge Osborn an Sam Wernple
an Pete Faxon an Dave Tinker was telkin
about a game an was lookin' round fr
somebody to take a fifth hand. They
looked at him some doubtful when he said
he'd set in an the old Judge says: We was
talkin' o. putin in two hundred apiece,
table stakes But Billy Bluefoot says that
suits him. an he says IL as easy az IL two
hundred want nothin' to him. SO they
begin.
They was playin' in the back room, but |
KEEP goin' in an out firm the bar f'r a spell
an seen Billy want doin hisself no HARM
30 I was feelin' easy. havin' nat'ral pride
in his playin' the way he did.
Then old man Bluefoot come rollin' into
the bar. an he says to me: Seen anythin' o
that cub Of mine, Greenhut?
That cub o. yourn.' i says. is con-
sid able Of man just now. an il you want
TO swell up with the pride OF father you
lust get behind the door there an see him
wallop four o. the best poker players in
Mississippi I amt much gave to bettin'
on another mans game says. but I'll
bet you one to four he'll have all the money
on the table inside O. the next twenty
minutes
well, old man Bluefoot was that excited
/ had to choke him to keep him I'm spilin'
everything. You don't mean to tell me
he's that good he says. an he wants to
butt right into the room 30 st l had to
back him up in the corner an hold him by
the throat with one hand while reasoned
with him with t'other. Finally put him
behind the door where he cd look through
the crack an we both watched.
well the way that youngster was swat
tin them four would ha' been scand'lous
if it hadn't ha' been home talent. He come
in agin the Judges pat flush. an drawed
three tens to a pair, and he played Sam
wemple up on a four straight, Wemple
havin' three aces afore the draw, till Wem-
ple's pile was all in, an then he filled his
straight.
Then the next hand he dealt hisself an
Foxen catched four tens cold an Tinker
three queens, 30 he got considerable OF
play afore the draw, him havin a pair O.
kings an some confidence. Then on the
draw he give Tinker pair. an pulled two
kings his own self. Feared like he cd
just reach out an pick EN- out o. the atmos-
phere.
They couldn't none on EN- say nothin',
bein' as they hadn't saw nothin' out o. the
way, but the old Judge said he reckoned he
didn't care to play sg'in such luck as that,
an the others all 'pesred to have cold feet,
90 the game broke up.
But you sh'd ha' seen old man Bluefoot
when Billy came out. He fell onto his shoul-
der an wep' with Joy an pride. an borried
FIVE hundred ofsea the boy on the spot. Then
he said he'd like to show him few wrinkles
in the game hisself, III you'll take few
lessons firm me- he says, 'you'n be the best
player in the State.
$50 Billy tells him he'd be delighted, an
after he's got rid o. the old man he tells
me he's goin' to play him f'r all he's worth.
Dads got considerable property round the
old home he says, but he hain't never got
no money bein' as he blows it, But I'll
play him an get notes outen him till l get
enough to buy the place. an then I'll get
judgment again him. That'n give me the
place, 'tbouten any risk O. the old folks
willin' IL away I'm me. an I'll leave em live
there while start out for the river.
well, he done it as slick as sick. The
old lady wanted Bluefoot to refuse to pay
a gambln' debt, but he was a spot all
right, an Billy got the place: and then, like
he said he would. he Lit out f'r the boats.
Likely he'd "a been the most famous
short card player on the river ony f'r him
goin' partners with Ben Upton, z was
famous already f'r Billy did stunts nobody
else ever knowed, an he sure were sclen-
tific player, but him an Ben had some
trouble afore they'd been pals a week an
Billy got the worst OF il. They was goin'
to hang Ben. but he swore it were self
defence. an there want nobody to prove
different.
Goes to show what / said There amt
no telyu' what a man'n do IL he's pushed
II Lem Gorkins hadn't been pushed he
wouldn't "a took to the river. An IL Billy
Bluefoot hadn't been pushed so alm ghty
hard when he was little he wouldn't never
have cultivated them wonderful taients o.
his'n, an more'n likely he wouldn't "A took
TO the river, neither