The Irish standard., 1910-01-22

made mistake in discarding; for he
carelessly paved over the dead cards
with one immense hand and found
the royal trio which he had supposed
he held.
"'Teased him Bit grinned lib. as
he tossed the cards tk-ether in an
honest deal I didn't cheS my boy.
I simply let him try, and he failed. 1t
will teach him to avoid temptation in
the future, hope
But the other, being short of dogs,
now showed me into the mat and mo-
toned that Emma and five dogs be
put against me. Tbs treasurer de-
INJURED, and wanted to set Emma up
alone. Then my patron got mad and
threatened to Jump onto the rug him.
self This scared Goliath. and he sulk-
lily allowed the dogs to be wagered.
My captor passed his hand, and to my
surprise lib followed suit, making ii
the first Jackpot.
He'll be careful in discarding this
time, I'm sure grinned lib, handing
over the deck with brazen flush care.
lessly displayed near the top.
THE old fellow grabbed the cards
with grunt Of Joy. and dealt. Tib
hesitated, then opened for one dog
My owner came back with five-dog
boost to draw cards. lib met 1t after
pondering bit, and raised it two
pups. Back came the limit, and back
1t went This cleaned old 0opperskin
out OF quadrupeds, and he bet no more
although he chuckled hoarsely as Til
motioned for three cards. Copperskin
then laid his hand face down and sig
nitied he was satisfied with what he
mad. Tbs owner, fearing all was
lost, began to growl ard apply the
point of his spear. lib waved the
weapon aside and bet an infant bow
WOW. He was promptly raised the
limit In spears. Again he raised, and
the dogs were covered with skins
One more raise, and Sitting Bull swept
all his belongings to the carpet anC
triumphantly threw down his hand
lib showed three aces.
my master, without examining hi,
cards, gave a loud 'woof!' and begar
hauling In the stakes, while the othel
copper demon raised his spear pre-
paratory to TRANSMITTING lib, taking Il
for granted the latter's plunge had los
all. But lib with sharp yelp pointed
to his adversarys hand, and his in
furiated hacker reached over and dis
turbed the card with his spear-point
Although the ten of hearts was on ton
all the other cards were brunettes
and worthless.
We'll, sir, 1t simply swept Sittint
Bull and his children off their feet
They had seen him palm heart flust
and. probably knowing he was the bes
poker player in the shadow of tn,
north pole they had chorted withou
stint Goliath, as Emma and troope(
to his side of the skin, gave a gleefu
howl and began dancing derisively be
fore his guest. To put tho final iol
into the scene, Sitting Bull slapped
one OF Tbs chips and was immediate
ly bitten through the thumb. With
howl Of rage and pain he sent hi
seyen.foot stalker into the misguide
cur
"Then Goliath and his follower
broke loose and jumped the other clal
to avenge this gross breach of hos
pitality. was quickly covered with
mob Of the Infatuated giants and, say
for rough horse play it had football OF
Soldiers field beaten into a tende
nursery game! Some one grabbed IN,
by the heels and pulled me out of tn,
squirming, spear-thrusting mass.
discovered my rescuer was Emma. To
gether we. located Tbs fat form ant
extricated him. Then, realizing tina
everyone was busy with home affairs
we scuttled off to the west. reckon
they were too actively engaged to pur
sue us. and three days later W,
reached the coast and in a half-starvet
condition ultimately made Godthaab.
But. do you know, sir. I've ofte,
wondered as to the identity of tn,
poor devil who left that life-savin;
pack of pictures up there on the edg,
of the arctic circle.