The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-08

sean all but stunned me. especially
his nerve in showing me how he had
chiseIed Colonel Pepper out of his own
pot.
Il dealt the final jackpot of the
game. Everybody Clipped IN $50, and
We agreed that that last one could be
opened for the size of the pot, 500,
and that the bets also could be made
of the size Of the pot. We were all
pretty well evened W on the sitting,
and nothing very exciting had hap
pened, the cards having run in rather
trivial lots. So We welcomed the
chance for a little real action on the
final pot.
With Restrained Rapture.
Colonel Watterson, who was under
the barbette cracked it right off the
reel for the proportions of il.
All he exclaimed, with a realistic
imitation of a man trying to restrain
great inward raptuTes when he saw
his hand. Gentlemen, in me you per-
ceive a stretch runner. 1 don't deny
that some of you might be able TO lose
me at sprinting distances, but when it
comes to going the full journey, we'll
the only thing I'm sorry for is that we
agreed TO any kind of a limit for this
final pot. I'd like TO open it for $500
I'll make it q hundred, however. If
that scaFes you all out, well and good.
But you might as we'll be CANA and
take your medicine. You are to re-
member that it's the last pot of the
evening"
Colonel Pepper was next. When he
picked up his cards in a bunch and
took the most cursory peek at the
margins he closed his hand up in
stantly and took a fuTtive peer about
the table, as if in fear that somebody
was going TO sneak a look at the gor-
geOuSnesS Of his papers. L noticed that
he was breathing rather hard, and that
there was what seemed to be a genu-
inc sparkle in his eye that might pre-
sage victory.
Henry said Colonel Pepper to
Colonel WatteTson, L hate to hear a
man from my own state speaking in
such piking terms. Notwithstanding
your stimulation of serenity, it seemed
to give you an actual wrench to open
it for the size of it. Sir, l blush for
you! A hundred more than you, sir,
if only to show this eminent Yankee,
Colonel IngersOll, playing at this board
that We have a proper appreciation of
poker proprieties.'
Colonel Ingersoll had maintained a
fine and solemn woOdenness during
this colloquy. After taking a very
brief look at his cards he had rested
them on the table in front of him, and
he leaned back, twiddling his thumbs
rather smugly and gazing at Colonel
Watterson and Colonel Pepper.
Amy person from Kentucky he
observed with a hOarse intensity of
tone that came near convincing me
that he really had something, who
calls me a Yankee has got to pay for it
~,
ing to cost anybody who wants to
draw papers In this just a hundred
more to get them
Senator Harris shuffled his cards
carefully, face downward, before
squeezing the margins out sideways for
a peek. Then he closed his hand,
drummed with his fingers on the table
for little while and gazed dreamily
at the blazing logs in the CRATE:
And a hundred he coughed apollo
geticaliy behind his hand, and his
modest and businesslike way of lifting
it puzzled me-he was wont to exhibit
dragoonish sort of pomposity when
he actually was trying to brazen some
thing through. I was some afraid of
him in consequence.
Now, 1 had two miserable little
pairs-eights atop of tours. But for all
that natural acting at that juncture, I
mac pretty nne line OH SOHe pre-
vious work of that kind that they'd
all put over i couldn't see my way
1 said TO him with imitation reproach-
talk, even if my two miserable little
pairs did look cheap and emery.
I'm there said l, and / went into
the center TO meet all the raises.
Colonel Watterson, the opener,
looked positively audible with serene
joy.
$50 am ], and glad / am of the
day And he stood the raises.
Colonel Pepper stood the raise with
great apparent oheerfulness, and