The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-08-09


time he played, however, he done II; /
so alter a while tackled him one night
when he was taikin with me alone.
+" 'Pinikins.' 1 says. I've saw heap
O. men play poker, but pears TO me-
Gays, what your the most gifted play
er ! ever seen. I'd like mighty Well
says, for TO have you fr a side part
ner. We en- fix 1t up any ways you
like I says III start a poker room, /
says. an you en- ptend TO be out
slider but I'll back your game as heavy
as you like. ony 1 stand in
well. Pelleas Pillikins, he was
mOnstrOus goOd-natured man. He on'y
laughed an give me that fool talk
about not hevin' no use f'r money round
home an On'y playin TT fun while he
was in Little Rock, an l argied with
him powerful strong, tellin him how II
was a sin f'r him 10 be a-hidin' such
talent as he had under a bushel basket.
D." It's perfectly wonderful l says,
how you pear to know every hand
what's out every deal. / never seen
you lose bet since you been playin'
here. l says
Then Pelleas PilHzins he Explained
it, or offended to, sayin' he sort O. sensed
it some way an most gently TeCkOned
right. but he couldn't tell how he done
it, An anyways, he says, he wouldn't
play FIR nOthin but fun, bein' as he
didn't like to take money often nobody
thOuten twas a p'fessiOHal, an them
he hadn't no use for.
Arguments Fail.
well. 7 argied an argied. but 'twa'n't
no use, an / just had to set back an
see the On'y sUTe-thing poker player /
ever bnowed a-throwin' away his Op-
pOrtunities fr fame and fortune, let
alone the chanst he had o. maxim me
rich An he KEEP on playin' an drink
in an not never shown - bad effex
I'm either one
Just nachully fr a man to play
poker in a place like Little Rock fr
cOnsid able spell an not never lose no
| bets is CaPlated fer to stir up COnsid-
| able bile in tn community, an 'tWa'n't
long afore there was talk of a commit
tee bein' 'pinted i'm the legislator fer to
investigate it, They didn't never come
to nothin', but Sam Fuller an them t
ulster play i'm his back room got all het
up over it. an one night Sam says to
Pelleas Pillikins;
Say, PilHkins, wouldn't it be better
if you was to make a losin' on a hand
Oncet in q while2
Then Pillikins he laughed good ma
tured an he says, Well, reckon 'twould
be better for the Teller I'm playin'
against, but I don't see nobody workin
for totheT man at the poker table, not
to no grit 'Xtent I don't An he grinned
like he was waitin' fr some kind o
comeback If that was what he was
! lookin' for he got it.
There was a big p'fessional in the
room name of Bill Bailey, what had a
reputation as a fighter, an he spoke
UP nasty: Looks like it was crooked
foT. tn win al the time he saws
PeIeas in Rage.
Then PeHeas PiIikins he billed over.
Bailey was settin a little behind him,
but he never turned round nor Tiz up
I'm his chair, but bein' double Tinted
all over, like 1 was sayin, he just
reached out behind with one hand an
caught Bailey by the neck. Then he
yanked him round in front of him an
ketched one O. Bailey's hands in his
teeth an 'tother one in his own left, SOS
t Bill couldn't get at his gun. Then
he got both O. Bailey's hands in his left
an gettin' his teeth clear he began to
cuss.
AFTER his first move he didn't pear to
be in no hurry, but while he was CUssin
away, leisurely like, he was settin'
! Bailey acrost his knee with his behind
up, ready FIR a spankin. Nobody
knOwed up to that time, how strong
/ PeHeas Pulikins RELY was. but we seen
then. cause he held Bailey easy with
one hand an spanked him good an
! proper with tother, while he was cussin'
of him till the air was blue.
We'll he spanked him till Bailey hol-
| Tered huff, an then he got up an
! kicked him outdoors, but Pelleas Pilii-
kins never played no more poker in Sam
| Fuller's back room, bein' some sensitive
| in his feelin's, an we never knOwed f'T
long time how twas he never lost a
bet at draw poker"
At this point old man Greenhut
paused, and, TeIighting his cigar, which
| he had suffered to go out, he smoked
| for a time in silence.
! Presently Jim Blaisdell asked some
what impatiently, well, didn't We never
| find out? Pears like this here Pillikins
must ha' knOwed some'in about the
game what il d be a good thing for to
know about"
ooh, yes" said old man Greenhut,
We did find out next session O. tn leg
/ islatur'. There was another Teller come
/ FIRM his deestrick that year an we asst
/ him if he knOwed Pelleas Pilikin.
/ He sort O. laughed an said he reck-
oned he did know him some, an then he
asst US If Piuilzins ever played poker in
/ Little Rock. We told him he did an he
| says, this Teller says, he reckOns Pill
/ likins didn't lose much.
/ "Then we told him he never lost q bit
an he laughed again an says. the Teller
/ does what that amt none surpTisin'. So
/ just nachUlly we asst him how come t
/ PeIleas PiHikins cd win every time
when other men thought they was
/ lucky to win Oncet in three or four
hands.
! so the Teller he grinned some m0ren
/ an he SAYS, ] reckon you uns must ha'
/ noticed, he says, what Pelleas Pillikins
/ was consid' able double tinted but may
/ be you didn't know what he was double
| tinted all over Then we told him we
understood how such was the case an
/ ne grinned some more.
Then he says the Teller says, well
/ Just nachuliy Pelleas Pillikins, bein
double Tinted all over was double flint
/ ed in his eyes, too. He cd just see all
/ over the room an round the corner into
/ the next room if he tried. Just nachully
/ he cd see what everybody helt ag'in
/ him an he never played 'thouten he
/ had the best cards
THAT sure was a advantage" said
I Jake WinterbOttom after he had recov-
/ cred from his surprise at the amazing