The Cairo bulletin., 1908-08-24
TWO GOOD EXCUSES
WHERE MEN HAD RIGHT TO QUIT
POKER GAME.
Player Now is Wise 10 the Fact That
Other Causes Beside "Cold Feet"
May Make Gamblers Throw
~ Up Their Cards


hasn't" said a man from Cheynne. Il
sat in fourhanded game in a hotel
room in Denver one night a few years
ago. | knew two of the players. but
the other was a stranger to all three
Of us
Wed been introduced to him by
somebody or other in the lobby of the
hotel, and when We said we were go
ing upstairs to play a little draw he
asked TO be allowed TO sit in. He was
a guileless sort of young fellow and
was, We understood the manager of
big wholesale grocery firm In Denver.
We hadn't started the game till
after midnight. and before We knew il
/ the light 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 pretty
nigh all of 80 Far as he was concerned.
But We jollied him out of that idea.
and 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 holler.
What's the matter-chlblai we
asked him, sarcastically. Feel
draught on your tootsies2 It's a won
der YOU wouldn't see a chiropodist for
what ails you Here II is Just the
shank Of the even-the morning. and
you're running OF like -"
" Gosh blame it all! I'm going to he
married at II o'clock this morning
only two hours from now--and I've
got to skate home and get into my
weddin toys haven't ~
Which was the truth, AZ we verified
It later, OF course we had to apollo
gi2e to him for accusing him unwar,
rantably of being a victim Of frigid
lower eXtremities, and guess he
started 10 keep house with the pat
thousand he took away from the three
Of u.s.
81 got into a little game with
sheriff | knew in southwestern Colo
RADIO and after we were we'll under
way big, weather.bronzed chap,
wearing rather a serinus countenance,
as II struck me at the time, pokcd his
In ut ,,f he ghn
which was inside the Jail, where we
were playing
"'Come on in, Jeff, said the sheriff
good naturedly, Want to slam into
this?
JEFF didn't mind If he did he said,
and he disappeared for r minute and
returned presently with sack filled
with gold money. He bought 500
worth OF chips, and the cards began to
filter HIS way from the tap of the
drum. !
Before an hour was over was
burned sorry the sheriff had invited .
him 10 sit in, for he had more than
$500 Of my pieces OF eight and It
didn't look Ike Jeff knew how TO lose
AZ poker any way he or we played the
game. He got into the sheriff Just as
bard as he did into me, and the longer
we played the more Jeff accumulated
along toward two o'clock in the
morning Jeff looked up at the clock
and said he reckoned he'd drop out
hat he had few letters to write and
such like triling excuses. | felt Ike
being real rude 10 Jeff. and was Just 4
about to tell him that two o'clock In
he morning was a mighty untoward
1our for a man 10 prv himself loose
rom game in which he was such
4 big winner. when my friend the
sheriff gave me kick on the leg under
he table.
so | didn't say anything while
left cashed. And when Jeff took me
by d band babe me goodby with a
good deal more fervor than the cir
appeared to call for.
heap just what kind of a
Jeff was anyhow. He
stuffed his winnings into the bag he
rad brought into the Office with him
md moseyed out
Well | said 10 my friend the
sheriff then, you took that good and
Easy, didn't you? | figured that you'd
ct out one little roar. anyhow. over
hat fellows hiking away with so
much of your good dough in his gun
lysack-not to mention mine-but
'ou didn't seem to
Steady, there, podner,' said the
heriff, splitting rehectively at the
.tove. Maybe | would a. called jeff
.ome, but you see I'm goin' 10 hang
EN- at 1870 this mornln'. and reckon
10 wants to git ready for his little pa
ade across the border
Fad for Sheffield Plate.
Many women are collecting Sheffield