The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-02-08
GREENHUT DRAWS MORAL
 FROM THE WHISPER TWINS

acter, but sich as them on'y has to study Bill Twisters creer to get sense.
 Bill was just naehully mean, like was tellin'. He wouldn't never give up a dime, oncet he had it, an that helped for to make him close in playin. He was naehullv some gifted in the way O reachin out fir anything he seen, an that made him keep tabs on all the chips onto the table when he played, so s he come to be a thoroughgoin player, an want never satisfied 'thonten he win evrythin there was in sight.
 There's a heap O good players t falls short that away, quittin' the game when they m some ahead an not aakin no count O what they thought win f they'd ony play to finish
 "Then there was that natural ondis- position he had. like Ben had for losin' Likely If he'd ha' lost first off. like Ben did, he q ha' quit, too, but, bein as twins he kep' on.
 The Making of Bill. "Ony he hated to lose, just as bad s sin, an that made him sos | he wouldn't t take no unnecessary chances. Pears like he was cut out fir a player, an' them very things what was a hoodoo to Ben bein' as he didn't play poker, was the makin's O Bill count O him playin"
 Again the old man paused in his speech, and, relighting his cigar, smoked on in silence while his friend waited for him to continue At length, Jake Winter bottom said
 That there story O yourn, Greenhut, minds me O the fish line the feller was tryin to ontangle. He unused with it a spell, an then give it up, sayin what he rec1oned somebody must ha' cut off both eends ont, bein' as there want no eendAto be found. Pears like if you was to finish mebbe we uns d sleep better tonight"
 We'll said old man Greenhut, sthe eend on t was some dih'rent. Shows how it don't do for to be too hasty draw i in conclusions. Shows too, how there ain't nary fish that swims what ain't lia- ble for to get ct up by some other fish, what's bigger'n him.
 ] This here Bill Twster kep' on develop in his nat'ral talents. an improvin his game till he came to be the best poker player in Pike county, bar none. Just nachully he growed rich an respectable an got some of a swelled head besides.
 Played Freeze-out.
 "Bein' as he was the best in Pike coun- i ty, he reckoned he was the best there l was, an he come to be careless about taclllin' strangers. Then one day slim, [ solemn lookin galoot rid up to the tav- ern onto a mule an reckoned he'd stop over f day, bein' as he was tuckered f out tray HI Dill WiStci ScrH mn that night settin rounl an as't him If he played poker Feared he did; so they done started a freeze-out
 That un only took about ten minutes l to play, an the stranger win it. so Bill, :, he says he'll double up. They played f'T a hundred first off, so that made the next un fr two hundred, an the stranger, he win that
 "Then Twister begin to get mad, seein' he want no good loser, his stronghold i beein to win, an he doubles again an l the stranger. he wins again.
 Alter that Bill 'peared to lose his head, an he got madder an madder, an the stranger, he set just as solemn as ever, an they lSep on doublin' an the stranger, he kep' on winnin till the hull 'cumu- lated wealth t Bill Twister t worked hard for all went into the strangers kick. Then Bill Twister, he dropped dead, an the stranger rid off onto his mule" | Once more old man Greenhut relighted the stub of his cigar and resumed his smoking, while his friends looked at one another in some engagement. At length Joe Bassett said:
 1 That shore Is some interestin' of a story in spots, but what about % i Shows there ain't no player so good l but what he's liable for to stack up agin' 1 somebody Us better n him." said the old man, and again there was pause II reckon there ain't no call to put him i in padded cell" said Blaisdell after he i had thought a while but mebbe we 1 thought get him put into a old lady | home"