The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-02-10

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dungheap o. prosperity"
ooh, / don't know" said Mr.. Owen
Pepper. There is them that wins, an
they're liable for to land on the dung
heap all right, if they win often
enough. an persistent. But there's
| them that lands in the hog wallow FIN
poker, too. Pears sometimes like
there's more o. the one nor there is O
| other"
"Old man Greenhut looked at him
for few moments as if mildly sur
prised Then he looked around at the
assembled company, turning slowly
from one to another as If looking for
an answer to some unspoken question
in his mind
Then he cast his eyes upward as if
supplicating heaven for strength to
bear up under a sore affliction. Then
he looked back at Mr.. Pepper and his
eyes flashed.
Il reckon the good Lord must "a
made you, 'iOng'o' some other puzzles
he's done let loose onto sufferin' HUI
mainly" he said. but he pears to
been tOlabIe hard put to t when it
come to fittin' you up. An somewhere
on earth l reckon there must be a
dumb mule, bein' as his conversational
powers was gave to you.
IF you knowed enough to fall down,
instead of up, when you stub your toe,
you'd come L understand as how them
! that's ruined at the card table is them
that don't play draw poker. They On'y
think they know how to play.
There was a nevvy O. mine, name
| O Sol Greenhut, that came to Green
vile to look round for opening when
l was tendin' bar over there. He
want 'xactIy loOkin' f'r a job, bein' as
q fn M oil coll
FIR workin'. Settin' round 'peared to
suit him more. an havin' some little
money O. his own, he kind o. lowed
he'd open office or a store where he
cd hire somebody else to do the work,
He want just easy TO suit, an
while he was settin round maxim up
his mind just what'd be best for to be
did he kind o. got into the way o. play
| in poker. there bein' a 'toFable good
game in the back room O. Jim Holsons
saloon, where 1 was workin at the
time.
Now Sol want no born genius, an
1 didn't look FIR him to make no greet
success o playin' poker. more special
as there was them settin in at that
| p'tic'lar game as was qualified for to
win the pinfeathers Off'n a archangel.
| But / knowed he'd have to learn for
himself sooner or later, an mebbe it d
be FIR the best for to learn into a ex-
pert game.
IF ever there was a youngster what
needed the refinin' influences an the
upliftin' tendencies O. draw poker for
| to develop his moral character, Sol
Greenhut did. He was slower than
cold mOlasses an that backward t he
| had to turn round to git into the
| house
He cd fight like a wildcat when he
was stirred up, but it took somepin
| like earthquake TO stir him up. Am
| he was tol'able sure to do the right
thing when he seen what the right
| thing was. but he didn't gently see,
| 'thouten there was flash o lightnin'
for to see by. I couldn't see t nothin
else but draw poker was liable for to
do him a powerful heap o. good
''Alls he wanted was a sort of stiff
fenin' up. An if draw poker don't put
| that into man nOthin' will.
There come a game one night after
Sol had been playin three or four
weeks when it looked to me like he
was goin' plumb through to the end o
what money he'd got outen his dads
estate. They was playin' some stiff,
an Roy Baxter an Pete Merriwether
an Jim Norris was settin' in, long
with a stranger I'm Tennessee t I'd
to be sized up f'r one O. them cross
road gamblers what goes round the
country like a rOarin' lion seekin' whom
they may devour somebody.
THAT want no game FIR onsophis-
| ticated babe o. grace like Sol Greenhut
! for to be playin' into, an / .knowed IT.
But as l was sayin', Sol had to learn,
an he meught as we'll learn one place
as another. Moren that, / had a inter
est in the kitty, an 'twa'n't no part O.
my duty FIR to bender business none.
They began playin' two dollar limit,
bein' as Sol said he didn't care to play
too high, an they was some good ma
tured. But then come a deal in about
half a hour when Sol got kind o.
chafed. not bein able to bet like ne
| felt he'd oughter.
It'd been Norris deal. an Merri-
wether had put up the regular ante, a
dime calls quarter. Then the stran-
ger that set next, he come in. an Sol,
that had next say, he skint his cards
down an found three kings. Shows he
was learnin' sOmepin' o. the game
when he come in 'thouten raisin' it,
like a yOungsterd be liable to.
THAT put it up to Baxter, an he
trailed but Norris boosted it half
dollar, an Merriwether stayed for the
raise. The stranger, he was playin'
close to his chest, even in that little
game; he studied a bit an then lay
down, so Sol had his chanel, an he
makes it a dollar more. They hadn't
got het up yet. an they was playin'
well inside the limit.
But Baxter he didn't pear to be
scarf none, an he says. I didn't want
to raise first off, reck'nin' somebody d
likely drop. Pears like it's good time
for to hist it some and he made it
two more.
"That gave Norris time to think, an
he just trailed, stead O comm back
like looked for him to do, being as he
played stiff Merriwether didn't pear
to like the last two raises none an he
dropped. so it was UP to Sol ag'in.
I'm free to say I | looked FIR him
to boost ag'in, FIR I'd saw his hand,
him not bein' as keerful as he come to
be later on about lettin' anybody be-
hind him see his cards. But he on'y
just trailed, an l says to myself 'meb-
be that boy II come to be player yet.
Knows somepin' Already
That closed the pot with Baxter an
Norris an Sol all in, an Inore'n s12 on
the table, maxim tol'able good money
FIR a two dollar limit game afore the
draw
"SoI took two cards an chfpped a