The sun., 1910-02-06

I
grade. 10 don't know no mo about
p'fesaonal poker. l says. N Il hound
pup q the wilderness knows O the plan
o. salvation. an O. Co'se. you done lose
20 monsy Thing 70 1Ou to do, say@
so he says. mighty humble like e.
him. i reckon mebbe you'm right abolrs
me not KNOWN as much poker s tham
two pikers does, hut how'm | gon' to
get that money back' They done left
town last night.
I says. 'f'r IL they'd "a stayed reckon
you'd raise a stake some way an set
In with 'em again
by this time I d got him where he didn't
know whether he was afoot or a-hosshack,
an he says 'Wotinell are yo' drivin' az.
anyway. First of. yo' say I'd oughter
20 an win back the money lose. SOS I
on pay the widder, an then yo' make
out what I'd be plumb foolish for TO set
in Ag'in. Pears like il moughtensbe the
narrer path you'm p'intin' out. he saws,
but I'm hornswoggled II it looks so he'll
roarin' straight a..
$50 / says, Hits straight enough, an
plain enough IL yo'I on'y look as fur
ahead as yo' nosell reach. / reckon you
know somepin' about draw poker, don't
you, even il you be amachure| didn't
want TO humble him too much, don't You
see, bein' as il was up to him 10 be man,
even II he had had his comb cut.
Then ne kind o. perked up a bit. like
I wanted him to, an he says, IN amt no
young fellers in Tuscumbia what plays
no better poker n DO even II be anna
That's lust it, says. What you'd
oughter do is to get hold o some O. them
same young fellers what don't play as
clever as you do, an skin them, same 8
them tinhorns sltint you.
eff a man swats you on one cheek. swat
. NJ ha
Scripters has it, ] says, an that II give
YOU the chanst o. bein' honest an payn
the widder, I says. an so gettin' shut q
them disagreeable consequences what
you was mentionin'.
was highmighty, an he begin TO see greet
white light when said that, but he shook
his head kind O. sad like, an he says there's
a good many reasons why he cant play
poker no mo- f'r spell. an he mentioned
one on EN- that 'peared to be good, 'sfurs
sBut / told him il that was all was eatin'
him I'd let him have fifty, an xplained
to him 'twa'n't no loan, bein as wouldn't
loan him no money, no mo n his Other
neighbors wouldn't
what I'm putting up, an u yo' win we'll
go halves. An the way look at 1t 70
dassn't lose, bein' as you're in too big
a hole a'ready. Consequence Is. ! says
what yo' can't afford to set IN, with no.
body What plays ;S,n as COCA, COCA a ySI .0 no
he says he thinks he ON fix that al right
II I'D, let him use little outen the fifty
f'r Jug o liquor.
sI1l get 1t up to my room. he says,
'thouten the old man KNOWN nothin
about 1t. am III get TO or five o the boys
What nj 70 anywheres f'r a free drink
an III swat EN- good.
$50 I tells him that's all right. on'y
the price o. the jug d have TO come outsn
his share o. the winnin's. an he went ~
cd trust him. f'r I told him IL he didn't
make good In the game I'd preach as'm
poker come next Sunday, an I'd hold him
ilp f'r a horrible 'xample an tell all what
he done 20 the widder, an ! got him
that skeert what he ID a bowed his
well, / reckon never done q better
stroke o. missionary work nor ! done
that time. To say nothin' o. turnin
a ondegenerate sinner outen the error
OF his ways an NAL kin honest man
outen him, bein as ! seen 70 It what he
his share O. the winnin's to say nothn
o. that I cleared somepin' over 500 my
own self Outen the $50 put up.
-More'n all that. ! give Tim Finucsns
his start onto a Greer o prosperity whft 4
likely been q heeP longer an more pros,
that there highmightinees left, Whit
showed up at the wrong time. Pe'.red
like IL ives dcne born into him, Gn' he
didn't never get entirety shut Of i
"Arter he done cleared hisself Fun that
tribiletion he stayed humble f'r e spell
an told me with terrs in his eyes how he
wRs etsrnally 'bleedged TO me f'r ssvin
Of him, but just nachu ~ thft wore on
a'ter few days en- he begin struttin
round like he WIS the onliest, poker payer
there ives in Tlscumbis an seen hewi."
-More'n that, I knowed he'd git 1t, bein'
as there YVES right srnert o. players there
what he'd mo- 'xper ence n he hFd IN
mo- money to play with. so | give him
few words OF emmmition whHt knowed
he'd mrde 2. tols BILE big losin An !
kind o. KEEP trbs on him, SOS Z I'd know
.Then seen him cTn'n, IN begin at
him the ss.me wr.v Hits yo' igno' fIre,
says to him, en- when he begin to swell
up I SAYS. 'Yo done been dom tola be
well in tn Hmeehure class. but you cone
got a sws.t the other night even al thnt.
what you'd oughter do ] says, is
TO study draw poker like you would any
other p'fession. You can't tell the king
Q, spades I'm the deuce o dimonds
an you don't know no mon anybody
else in the game what. .cyards you'm gon
to get when you deal.
%There's benighted heathen,' SAYS
what en- do better'n that into the game
an what you'd oughter do is tn make
yo'self expert. Then you en- reap the
reward o. your Efforts. I says, an find
out f'r yo'self what q gre't means o. self
Improvement draw poker RELY is. But
II you go on playin' a amachure game
l says, some other feller's liable for 70
do the reapin', an you'll be sewin' up the
tears, as the Scripters has it,
swell. I was tellin' you what Tim Finu'
can want no fool. an he seen | was'
right a'ter I'd talked a spell, so he sot
hisseif to learn how TO play proper. He
asst me fust on why I didn't learn my
own self, but Explained to him what nv
p'fession was even bettern draw poker
q long g l cd set in 'thouten bein' called,
an reckoned I'd hang on to 1t e long s
I could. But. | says, faint everybody
that's called to be a preacher.
Il reckon it must "a been mo- n Two
year a'ter that t run acrost Tim Finu.
cane down to Mont gomery. where ] had
another pulpit, an he told me he'd done
took my advice an studied hard f'r over
a year afo' he undertook to play into no
ser Gus game o. poker. y
by that time. he said. he knowed con
sid able mo- o. the deck nor he did afo'