Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-09-17

camp.
| "Wh he came home he hadn't no
home All the LawtGnS was dead hu'
4 ragged suit o gray an handful
lConfcdTit money what wouldn't even
buy whisky no mo.
| w, II. he went plumb to the devil.
snddnn. The huh South was full q
Ifflicrs like him, an there didn't pear
to be no use tryin' to help '"m all. so
a good many didn't get help. DICK
igct broken aud he was Oneo> tn" worst
,hellyOns among en-.
! "'Twani long afpr" he com" tn h.
iknown rs the Slick"si man on III river
with q deck u cards an on" q the
quickest there was Oh the TRIGGER. He'd
fight at q word over game. but II II
was anywhCr. r'%r but into came
poker he'd get sullan an Wal. an
then he was sur" dangerous.
Billy a Stubborn Fighter.
"Thcre amt no tellin' how hir, an
Billy Bascom ever got .r"ntnrr. ir
Eillv was po' white trash m me
start an want no extry good player
al lUdi, Du' Nv WHY Il S'up "a u ii~"'
an had rel talent with / bowie.
They met up somewhere on the boats
an come. 10 be Dais soon after. IN
while they played together thee VA MT
no worse team to tackle in the hun
Mississippi valley. Dick WIS IN" ma
ter hand. an Billy played fair with
him fr a spell. bein' as hr "a nn
main sight better that away Eor Ii"
could by hissclf.
First thing I happened was t Billy
got consid'a able thick with :, girl o
Dicks. There want TO break ever
that. | reckon Dick didn't III" Much
abb ut her Anyway. h" didn't make n"
kick when she left him FIR con1 an
took IN with Billy. But ! reckon 'bck
laid it w as'in his pal even # he
didn't say nothin'.
"N"xt thing they had words o-cT
wad. p ar they'd got hol! NJ couple
o. suckers into a game an ha" sk'ht
'cm proper. Dick gatherin' in the will
nin's an Billy maxim kick wi"n DICK
hand him his share. He didn't go so
fur as to say right out t Dick had
morc'n he said. hut he grumbled AID
iEle. an Dick says:
".Wha,'s eatin' you? Aain't you got
your half
| Billy didn't say no:hin' fr minute.
They was ;irinkin' together in my
place an I locked FIR fight then an
there. but pretty soon Billy says, sort
of erudsin'
"'Oh, well. if you say so l reckon
it cOos, but I'd ha' swOrc there was
another hundred in the game.
! Then | knowcd it'd come sooner or
later |. in as Dick didn't say Eothln
but give him a look t said plain as
ipreachin' how as it was rankin long
with the question afDut the girl what
I'd knowed about afore.
| They KEEP en- playin' together fr
imebbe month more. though, an
! seen 'cm three of four times afcre my
/ broka. An each tim" seen EN-
saws to myself what Rilly had ought 'r
10. keen his knit, tol'ab!e loose, holm
as thct look never left Dicks ewes.
"Twa'n't IN to IN" 20 say nothin'
though. an I waited.
| "Bimcby there comes night when
everything on the old boat 'peared 10
| be ready fr bust up. He was rushih
to make up time an seen We was car
Irwin more steam n we'd ought. beln
1.-THE hilerS was old. an the old man
iface was grim like he knowed mebbe
w. d tust. but he was gOin' to take tn"
,ehanst
Then it was one O. them hot still
nights when YOU can't pear to ct
iyour breath an thunder was mutterin
all round so s t you knowed one
them big storms was liable for to como
iany minute. an bein twas hot as
itwas YOU didn't care.
Bio Bets Didn't Tease Them.
| AN there was five men playin'
tpoker in the s'loon like th'y didn't
lcare how zig the bets was. Each on
Fem was strung up with the heat an
with the whisky what they was drink
lin more n usual. so s I they didn
look to be carin whether they went
broker not
| An they was mrtterin' to their
Isrlfs now an a:>'ir. ~omo hke mat
Thunder, on'y not eayin Rothin' ont
so g I Won felt as If they was storm
comm there. too. Pared Ike all
lhcH was satherin' together close round
lus.
Dick and RilIy was into the game
an So was lin Dare wha. was made
Inn rr a upcountrr planter. but
tknoyed him RI slick short card play
Ter I'm Now Orleans. ony he hadn
never navel on the boats 3for".
jfurc's 7 knowed. An then th"re wa
1.-TWO sure enough suckers. h.':h on I'm
with big wads an both drinkin' out
! rageous.
; They was Iosin'. q course. hut bc'n
ss drunk as ihev was they ken on
p,ayin.' an 'pcrductn' more money Z N
iiime 20 time. Jim Oar - hadnf
teeu winnin' nor iosin. n"r"er "nr
not 10 speak of. an sly q il ~ = Nc
was Iayin' hack rr Rig Ilas. So
y. course Billy an Dick Was more N
tccnsid' able winrcrs.
| Il seen the last hand o that game