The sun., 1909-06-27

sUoA0o nun over DIT, an him not lookin'
, ,Se Iessional. az was just sayin'.
Twa'n't no hell roarin' steep game
when they begin ite bein' as twas table
stakes an nobody bought moro n twenty
dollars in chips fr q starter, but they
hadn played more'n half an hour afore
was minded o. what the Scripter says
40 sS1yt \, @ entertainin angels unSsknownst.
sendin' sucker to help out the local
talent 'peared like this was IL.
| =, Inc stranger. he played along like he
didn't reely know what draw poker was.
nor whether flush d beat pair Just
naohully. he was drove TO the boneyard
cheerful, an after that, peared like he
had to buy tol'able nigh as frequent
as u come his deal.
! He never made no kick, though, an
KEEP on losin' an losin' like he didn't care
no mo for money nor he. would f'r hia
ssSond ifs S, DoSsin S,inS Soin to jail Just mach
an the money on the table gettin mo-
an mo-. the game got bigger. All four
o. the others was gettin' his chips, an
they got bettin' heavier an heavier, till
bimeby Billy James called f'r twenty
aThen Jasper Dixon run UP agin full
house with pat flush, an bein as Whit
Jasper Just nachuliy lost his pile, an hs
bought fifty in chips. Then the game
begin to get furous an one ater another
bought I'll! | reckon there was nigh a
All tSis % time the He seranser' sae Sse' he hadnt
win nothin' to speak o. He'd pull 10 a
pot now an again. but y d aleys be
some fiddlin little stake I nobody else
'peared to think was wuth playin' for.
U It was q big pot he wouldn't have no
snow whatsumever. ga
spot. langbin' some but gettin' kind o.
sore gradual an oussin his luck oc-
oaalonal, Hike man will when he gets up
az in hard run O. luck. On'y the others,
seein' the kind Of q game he was playin'.
didn't pear to think IL RELY, vas iuok.
1.-THE the ssranssr he'd been ;n6s nsySn IN
game begin, he went broke again. an
lookin' round the table he seen 7 there
want nobody else In what had less'n n
$500 in front Of him. 90 he call out to me
to bring him $3.50
~ got to have money enough for to
an O. co'se bring him the chips.
Twa'n't but. few minutes e'tel
this afore that there game bust up In
blaze O. gas an fireworks with close
call fr P'mlsc' gun play: just Why
twas I there want two or three on EN-
| ., !
pected display o talent by that there
aforementioned stranger.
FIN what some on 'cm said later on
reckon he must "a had consid' able mo
talenta n one. but didn't see nothin
my own self an stands 70 reason nobody
else seen It at the time. II they had they
a spoke. So t amt easy to say what did
Ilt came on Billy James's DEAL an, they
all knowed he didn't know enQueh FOL
TO deal crooked II he'd wanted to. let alone
him bein' q ightfor'srd. hon,abie
man what d lose q finger sooner'n to cheat
80 there wa,n't nobody suspeotin. nothn Z;
they was all quick enough TO play ON;
An the hands they got WAS certainly
some strange. Outen the hull Ave, the
low cards was ten full on kings. an the
cur Gus thing was Z none on 'em wa
pat. 'Peared like such . thing oouldn
in Greenvile when we talked 1t oveI
!s.sc was asrhoy It didn't.
.Th' on'y way We cd explain II vas
| 'cordin' to what Jasper Dixon said, an
him bein' as I said the best poker playef
In Greenvills We reckonsd he knowed
James's right. an O. .eo'se Billy passed
him the deck to cut. What Jasper esys
Was the stranger must q had cold deck
ready and changed it when he p'tended to
out. Being as he'd been plAyin' 90
hell roarin' poor I'm the beginnin,
there wan. nobody suspected noRhin'
.wsi. Billy dealt. an it bein. Jsspers 9
ante he put up the usual two call hve, what
they'd been plsyin' since the game got
sti6. and Jim and Gale come In. Then
the stranger he studied spell, an he come
in, but Billy Jones rose i ten: ~, ..
to h lat that my owneelf.' an he makes
his ante good an throws In twenty,
an Jim an Gale an the stranger they al
trails.
s1sn, hs sayf 70 an suit It. jasper
an he Gays, Twenty better n you.
Pears like the others Ia hooked. an, we
pnoueht as we'll SEQ II the hook II hold
Then the others they all trailed again.
Billy thinkin' this time that his three
aoes amt quite big enough f'r another
raise aforc the draw. but good enough to
p"T Then Jasper. he takes one card. h.vin'
four ninss al tho time. Jim pulls two
an makes king full. Gale takes two an
makes four queens an the stranger calls
for ops. That left on'y the dealer to
.n y ns 81. %;ds y aes pst fS S.t h. throred
In a white chip afore lookin' at his draw,
% o to see what tho others d do. all on
'crn hayin' showed strength; but when
| Gale seen his foufs he just nat rally put
up his pile, an the stranger. a'ter he d
looked at his draw. he shoved his pile
| forard, him havin' some moro n Gale, but
not much
sWell, o. co'se they all had to call, bein'
AZ they all had good hands, an nobody
had showed any evidAnces o havtn' the
best. 30 all the money on the table was up
when they showed down an the stran-
sHoW come It was Z Jasper was slow
To s'uiCion apythip' I can't say. but the
stranrer he called f'r drink all round
md when I brunS EN- he says TO mo.
start fresh game IN Play 90 bruns him
the money an took the chips,
! -Well the others was etill talkin, about
the hand. bein' oontid's able 'xcited. but !
hadn't no mo n gin the stranger his mopey
n Jasper says. BY the Lord, that deal
must o. been crooked. an with that the
stranger civ one leap outen the room an
Another outen the street door an ths next
we knowed We heerd his hoss gallopin'
up the road; an mono on us ever seen
Ths Cd man stopped suddenly and
lighted Q fresh cigar. After pause,
dirinf which his friends seemed to be
expoCfips him to continue. Jake Winter .
:That sure was some OF q play. but how
come YOU said you was minded OF i by
what WAS did 10 Bill Hethertonf Pears
like II don't neithsr trump IN mr. follsr
suit