The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-20

take nNe hundred apiece IN chips al
play a freezeout FIR the two on EN-.
''ZebulOn Strawbridge he says. III
go We, as quick as a flash. an turned
his mule round an they all went back
to the big house, an he made one OF
his niggers fetch the cards an chips.
Don't sound likely" said Mr.. owen
| Pepper. who had come i'm while old
man Greenhut was telling the story;
| Them planters didn't ulster have pc
whites into their houses for TO play
/ poker with EN- them days. Not M
what I've heerd. they didn't"
Old Man Greenhut glared, and was
about to answer hastily but seeing
nat mis- friends were all grinning AT ,
( what they considered d palpable hit,
/ he spoke mildly.
/ 'ZebuiOn Straw bridges onhoy
/ greed" he said, made him do a heap
/ O things as unlikely as that. He
/ thought he seen a way to get one
more niger. an he'd "a did more'n
! hat to get him. Anyway, they played.
/ an I'm what I've ben told il were a
'tol'able good game.
! 'Pegleg's boy told me about it long
: after
I knOwed what pap was amin to
/ DO. he says, an ] want kiCkin. fr
| knowed I cd run away any time an
/ get the stain off, so / just looked on
/ ike 1t was all one TO me. An say,
/ II was some interestin'. Them two
| played f'r half a hour like they was
playln' fr their immortal souls an
/ couldn't afford TO take no chast
Just seesawed three or four chips.
back an forth, winnin nothin' an
losin' nothin' till l was tolable nigh
asleep, but all to oncst there was
! somethin' diddin'. or Strawbridge he
cotched three kings an a ace on paps
deal. an pap he cotched three aces an
a king
Well, o course. pap he come i'm. e
an Of Strawbridge he raised it, an
pap histed him, an Of Straw brige
come back, an pap shoves a hundred
III the pot. an Of Strawbridge he stu
dies a bit, an then sees the raise
Then he calls FIR two guards, an
pap grins an takes one an puts up
his hun pile
He come nigh getting away with
II, too, bein' as Of Strawbridge 'peared
10 sense fours out ag'in him. l reckon
II must a been count o. the one
cyard draw, but he'd pulled a pair o.
treys TO his kings. an a king full was
big enough FIR even him to lose on il
they was TeeeIy tours. so he calls.
Pap hadn't bettered. so I seen #
was up to me TO be a StrawbI idge mig
ger tr a spell, but that 'peared 10 Re
as good as Twin in III OF cabin, bain'
as l get better grub. so [ didn't saw
hothin, an pan went back. though.
win brother Ji2, al stained I'D like 4
me an they pllyed another freeze-~
out an Of StraWbrid1c he win ag'in.
l reckon pap must a did some
tol able tall hustlin' fr wa'nuts fr the
next two or three weeks, FIR he came
tralhn' back most every day with an
other young un all stained uD. lookin'
IT another freeZe-oUt. an gettin' il
every time. or StraEbridge H.,
chuckled some. an lie says he hain't
saw 20 such easy way O. gettin' more
n1ggers, not fr a long time. an Ia
KEEP on Diayin' day alter day.
l dunno what he thought. seem
EN- get younger an smaller every dHy.
tlli he was playin' fr pickaninnics. but
ne didn't say nOthiu'. an pap ken on
ietchln US till we was nigh all Straw
DIiuse hlggers, Twin on better gruS<
we'd ever had afora, an csttin' Tar.
There be days when nan n win
TWO or three of us back. an th=n his
eyes CLEAN an he'd p'pOse for 80
uOuoie the stakes in the next freezeout.
Pears he must "a figured il or Z
all o StraWbridge's niggers. but tn olS
man ne done got some het up oyCrE
the play an he stand for 1t like a
spot
Twa'n't nOways hard for TO see
-''FF iASAtitSAr bGlH dS he C. q zen
douolln fr a hellOva while tbouten
losln no greet number. cOnsidertu' an
ne ned. But he win out every day.
dldn rightly know my own self
Just now many there was of us. hut
judgin' I'm the size O. them 7 was
comm IN lords the last I reckoned We
must be torable nigh all in, an 7 he
gin 10 wonder If pap'd RELY go broke
seem want noways likely = 81,
Strawbridge d play f'r dogs,
Then one day when we ms was
reck MIN I the fun was nigh o,-sT
pap come TO the door with marin. an
the last Daby, an p poses to plav then,
H. nm havin' stained EN- IN Win
wa nut same's the rest of us. on
Straworldge he didn't look overly any
ious Tor to play no more. but he said III.
fetched again.
" This time it were nigh onto br31
day afore they quit the game. Pan I,.i,,
TOUR freeze-outs hand runnin'. an h..
in as they doubled up every time h.
must a ben Ownin' a dozen or 81 -,
Strawbridge's niggers one time o-sr
an above redeemin' his own fan,bIv
from bondage
".'Or strawbridge set tight. though
an never weakened. Feared Ike H.
knOWed Pap's luck wouldn't stav v-itb
him long, so when Pap said be;d inet
play IT the dozen velvet he had OF
Strawbridge no. He'd play double or
quits. same as befo. but he wouidr,t
play no other way
20 course said old man Greenhu..
that was the time f'r Pegleg Hicpfu-
stover TO jump the game He sure done
noble up 10 this. shown hissalf a
nervy player, even if he wasn't so hell
roaring astute
Did you see any o. them morals
runnin ioose?' inquired Jim Bla;sdeu.
soto Voce, of Jake Winterbotton.
Nary one" said the latter. hut
are"
They played on, accordin'" contin-
1ed old man GTeenhut, AN. inst NAT
lral, Pegleg Higginstover's luck
like it had to some time
Him havin' pat flush ace high he
bet his pile on it, an ZebuIon Str,v--
bridge, DRAWN to threes, catrI:ed a
-ou IN; so that settled it. Pegleg Iitg-
went forth into the COLI, 4
world bereft of his hull possessions. an
va mt never seen ag'in
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