Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1908-05-28
TWO GOOD EXCUSES
WHERE MEN HAD RIGHT TO QUIT
POKER GAME.
Player Now Is Wise to the Fact That
Other Causes Beside "coId Feet"
May Make Gamblers Throw
Up Their Cards.


sometimes you're liable to imagine
that the fellow playing opposite you in
poker game has cold feet when he
hasn't" said man from Cheynne. 81
sat in a four-handed game in a hotel
room In Denver one night a few years
ago l knew two Of the players, but
the other was a stranger to all three
Of US.
wed been introduced to him bv
somebody or other in the lobby OF the
motel, and when we said we were go
ing upstairs to play a little draw he
asked TO be allowed to sit in. He was
guileiess sort OF young fellow and
was, we understood. the manager of a
Dig Wholesale grocery firm in Denver
We hadn't started the game TIL
after midnight, and before we knew n
tne nsht OF dawn began to dribble in
at the windows. By that time the
young man who managed the whole
sale grocery was into the three of us
TO the tune of of about $500 all told.
When he saw the daylight creeping
In he announced that it was prettv
nigh all OF so far as he was concerned.
BUT We 1ollied him out of that idea.
ana so he played on, winning right
along. But at nine o'clock in the
morning he gave a look OF alarm at
his watch, pushed back his chair sud-
denly and said that he guessed he'd
better cash in.
entirely without Justification all
three OF US set up the cold-feet boiler.
What's the Observation-Disclosures Y'' we
asked MIN, sarcastically. Feel a
oraught on your tootsies? It's a won
der you wouldn't see a chfropodist for
what ais you'll Here It is lust the |
shank OF the even-the morning. and |
you're running OF like a"
Gosh blame 1t ALI I'm going to be |
married at IL o'clock this morning
only two hours from now-and I'VE
got to skate home and get into nv
weddin' toys, haven't L?
Which was the truth, as we verified
1t later. OF course we had to apollo
s1ze to him for accusing him unwar-
rantably OF being a victim of frieid
lower extremities, and 1 guess he
started to keep house with the nat
thousand he took away from the three
IF US.
got into a little game with a
'nerin knew in southwestern Colo
ado, and after we were well under
way big, weather-bronzed chan.
rather a serious countenance.
Is 1t struck me at the time, poked his
iead In at the door of the sherifrs.
Which was inside the jail, where we
we're playing.
Come on IN, Jeff,' said the sheriff
ood naturedly. Want to slam into
his?
Jen didn't mind II he did, he said.
nd ne disappeared for q minute and
eturned presently with a sack filed
18th gold money. He bought 500
.ortn OF chips, and the cards began to
tier his way from the tap of the
rum. {
Before an hour was over I was
urned sorry the sheriff had invited
Inn to sit in, for he had more than
500 OF my pieces of eight, and It 7
ont look like Jeff knew how to lose q
poker any way he or we played the !
ame He got into the sheriff Just as 6
ara as he did into me, and the longer c
e played the more Jeff accumulated. G
Along toward two o'clock in the c
orning Jef looked up at the clock /
I'd said he reckoned he'd drop out q
lat he had a few letters to write and A
ich like tr1fing excuses. 1 felt like n
cling real rude to Jeff, and I was lust t
bout to tell him that two O'Clock in s
Ie morning was a mighty untoward L
Dur for man to pry himself loose n
ON a game in which he was such fl
Dig winner, when my friend the v
lerin gave me kick on the leg under
e table. Z
so didn't say anything while g
m cashed. And when JET took me X
the hand bads me good-by with a a
'od deal more fervor than the cir I
appeared to call for q
ordered heap Just what kind of a II
opposition Jeff was anyhow. He 6
ured his winnings into the bag he a
q brought into the once with him 81
d moseyed out. 4.