The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-09-27

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time to talk. 30 I says I'll be ready.
'c' course. there want no time TO
lose, 40 I saddled my mule an rid right
over to Widder Peabody's an played a
handful o. trumps. just how / did it 1
can't say. but I got her to promise to
marry me Sunday mornin':. The idee
was 7 II ! was married to her h a..
Widder Salisbury ca fight IL out atweta
'em, 'thouten me bein' drawed into 1t,
an that looked good to me-.
We'll. I hired the parson fr Sunday
mornin,' bein' p'tio'lar TO get the Baptist
dominic. count O. Wilder Salisbury
bein' a redhot Methody an sure TO get
her W pasture. Then l KEEP away
I'm both on 'em till Sunday
The old man paused and looked at his
cigar. The fire had died out apd he re-
lighted. Then instead OF resuming his
story he seemed lost in reverie. The
others waited a little, but seeing ne had
dropped the thread Of his story Jake
Winterbottom said:
Looks like you had a tolIable poor
hand 10 that there freezeout. Oreenhut.
How did the bluff work.
Still the old man was silent. but pres
emily he shook his head thoughtfully
and said.
Il mover knowei afore that what q
institution o. Providence draw poker
lie, an want fr a considerable spell
alter t I fully realized It. II IL hadn't
ben f'r a little game o. draw what Get
in Saturday night the Lord on'y knows
what'd become o. me
aItl -lo-aA .,..A af1ra that ~ noatraa
same as all young fellers does, but
want nothin' more'n a game to me
them days. Takes wisdom and exper-
'ence for to understand how draw poker
In the hands o. Providence is some like
q bu~pgstarter in the fist o. a man what
knows how to handle 1t, More thing s
Is did with draw poker when Providence
RELY settles down to business nor this
world wots Of, as the Good Book says.
Jim Holloway an Bill Dixon an
me had made 1t up to trim a couple o
yaps I'm back in the country what was
on their way to New Orleans f'r a blow
out an was just nachully well heele1.
They didn't pear to know much about
poker an We uns reck oned it'd be q shame
for to let EN- get clutchei on the boats
an their money 60 to some o. them pies
SIGNALS what travels the river.
well. We played In tn back room when
! was 'tendin' bar them days. n just
nachully the windows was closed in. N
we played by lamplight. My niger was
waitin' on us. an he kept the lamps
burnin' all right, 80 just naohully we
didn't pay no 'tention to the time. ore
special as the game was some '%xcitin'.
Dixon wal all right, an I didn't make
no bad breaks t l ON call to mind. but
Holloway want 80 dodgasted reliable 3
he mought "a ben. an them yaps d
have a run o. luck o an again, 30 fore
we knowed 1t they was considerable ahead
O. the game, an Dixon an me was some
het up.
We played an played. not takin' no
note o. time, till bimeby the niger throwed
the shutters open an put out the lamps.
an asst us II we didn't want some break
fast. Then l looked at the clock an seen
It was half alter 8 an ! was to be married
at 0.
90 course / started to cashfn. but when
| stacked up my chips I seen l was $500
loser, so o. course l stayed fr another
hand. I seer later on t Providence was
playin' q hand too. but just then alrs
| was thinkin' about was 0 O'Clock an
that two hundred.
well. pears like Holloway must a
ben playin' the hand O. Providence that
time. He. opened a pot fr $50 an one o
the zap stayed. Dixon passed an
'tother yap boosted it $50. 80 l stayed.
thinkin' to help Holloway case o him
neeiin' a Gross cut.
Then he riz IL 500 an the two yaps
stayed, 80 O. course I give it another
hist, an Std o. him comm back at me
he trailed. Tn on'y reason l cd see fr
that was 7 he was reck'nin' on doin'
better alter the draw nor he could afore,
an / let 1t 60 at that, not hkin' o. 1t over
much but reck'nin' on him KNOWN his
own play.
"Then the two yaps stayed. an we
drawed cards. They all took one apiece.
an I drawed two to a pair O. tens. not
improvin'.
Holloway throwed in a fish, an the
first zap bet 500. T'other one raised him
an I studied. Feared like Holloway
was liable for to need more help n I cd
give him. but I didn't dast to leave him
alone ag'in that kind o. a combination.
80 / trailed. making 500 O. my money in
the pot an me with nothin'.
Then Holloway lost his nerve, an he
dropped. shown two little pairs fr
openers. o. course the pot went TO the
yaps, an I clean forgot all about nine
O'Clock. seem / had business O. more i'm
p~ortance on hand.
.'Long about noon, when / called to
mind that Widder Peabody had been
stood up / was gettin' along lords even
In the game. al l says to myself what
widder Salisbury was still lookin' fr
me, an IL l want goin' to get pie / was
still good f'r hoe cake. SO I played along.
winnin' some. but studyin' on how ! cd
best kill Holloway, him havin' dropped
out broke.
Some later my niger come into the
room, him bein' in an out I'm time to
time, an says to me t there was two
women lookin'f' II me In front O. the sloon.
| seen then how Greenville wa'n't no
place fr me, no mo-. an I dropped outen
the back window an made O break fr
the river. There was a boat just leavin'
an l got abo'd.
Il was tol'able young them days. but
/ had sense enough to see when I come
TO think it over that moron likely draw
poker was tn on'y thing t could a