The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-28
HUMAN PINCUSHlON A
| | VICTIM OF POKER.
Stuck Cards Instead Of Pins Into
Himself-The Old Man
Points a Moral.

hoas IN a little siberian c'munity n tbs
10 be second to home
This observAti--l was put forth by old
man Gr-enlaw after a long period Of ii
lence in his LITTLE saloon No one else had
said anything and nothing had occurred
IN the place which might have provoked
the remark. II was therefore with some
little surprise that his friends observed
the earnestness with which he spoke.
No one replied for a few moments. but
after thinking IL over Jake Nihterbottom
said
Il reckon there's somepin IN that. hut
] don't call To- mind nobody what's been
trav lin outen his class recent 'thouten
it's that zap Z come m hero last night
Spectin' Ia make a winnin' at draw
Well said the old man. 'th amt
nothin' ekl to a game o. draw poker TO
TO show the truth o most things. Likely
vo' wouldn't find no better Sample o.
what | was sayin IL yo' was 10 look I'm
Daniel to Bathsheba. a. the Good Book
saws
But what | was thinkin' % was the
gre't moral lesson there was into IN
Greer a Bellyband Bush that there poker
expert I'm Biloxi what We Was 'alk,n
about tn other dav
He was the Teller Jim Blaisdall was
tellin' about. what was 80 fat he had 20
wear a surcingle TO 10 keep hisself I'm
Dustin I'm his own weight Pears he
we're a likely enough youngster afo' hs
got 80 monstrous fat an helt his own
fol able well in all the doin's there was
Then. lust about the time whom h. was
liable TO TO marry an settle down. come
this tur'ble affection o fat onto him
Consequence was = he couldn't do not hin
same = he'd usetsr Couldn't do nothln'
but act into a chair
-Bein' a that sort o hiction done KEEP
him I'm dom much II Anythin elss
pears he took To draw poker. an not
havin' nothin' else Ia do. he Il v~ bis hull
mind 20 IL. an come 10 H. the best PLAYER
there was in Biloxi
Just nachully there was them in the
town what want noways disposed fer
20 acknowledge Z he was RELY the best
consid' rim a. how they reckonNd they
was some player their own =elfs One
on 'sm was a Teller named Buck Jordan
what had travelled thu boats consid able.
an done 'cumila,ed some Of a wad afo'
ha come home again an settled down.
Pears he want overly ambitious an he
iIsster sav what he reckonsd no cd make
Twin round home consid able easier
n he could onto the boats 'thouten the
trouble n 'xpense o. trav'hn'
There WAS somepin' into u too r. he
sure was giftad mo- n the nv rage They
sad he cd read the oyards toll able nigh
a. well I'm the hacks = he could I'm tho
facs. an there was monstrous few o. the
HON. talent what had the Judgment Z
he had in backin' a pair o. deuces az IN
three Of kind. when the circumstant-
done called TO strong play.
-Anywavs he settled down. like I said
an come TO ba a substantial Clt zen. what
was mo- or lees looked mp 10. count a.
helm talented. an count o him al avs
havin' q wad Z nobody'd ever took often
him no matter how bag the gams was
There was others IN Biloxi PLAYED a
tol able good game. an Buck Jordan
was al'ays 2 pared 10 10 set in with EN-.
hut there hadn't nobody never got the
hest Of him. 80 b. come to b. some high
mighty an disposed TO 90 be mo or less
sco'nful when they begin 10 talk o Belly
band Bush bein' gifted
just nachully that didn't come about
in a dav nor week Taint often what
H' -, SONG
an taH-- "aS- r'p'''' rkh' IN IN
start II takes study AN practice 10 to
make a player. but b"llyband Bush KEEP
at II TIL there was some Z said he Cd
play = well - Buck Jordan
They met mp h"Nra times ~ ia
reg lar town game what was played
most ev ~ night at III tavern an first
81 Jordan hsdn no gre difficulty trim
MN Bellyband Bush same lie done
with most everybody else IN town. but
beu = he was some diplOmatl" he didn't
set IA reg lar eV'ry night. not wIshin 70
get to Ia too ConspIc ous. an Bellyband
Bush. not b-ln able Ia do nOthIn' else
wuth mentionIn. set IA all tn time
consequence was Belly band Bush
keepIn ia practice all tn time an tryin'
10 To- improve hlsselt. like he done,
comes to know all Buck JOrlAn's line
plays alter a spell. an stIdyin on EN-
prayerful got So = I he cd play EN- .
well = Buck jordan could
There was Others ssen It. an hineby
they took notice = Bellyband Bush want
Rettln trimmed no mo even when Buck
Jordan set IN. an they deVilled Jordan
about n Consld able til one night h..
swo' what he % beat any man o ia
name o Bush what ever com. tIp tn