The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-05-25

In the draw Jimmy caught another queen
and also another seven. To his surprise and
qualification, two of the men who stayed in
after the draw, raised and re-raised each other
right along, apparently paying no attention to
Jimmy until he had to call for sight, having
put up his last dollar.
Chippy Heinz was the first to lay down his
cards, showing three aces. The other man
had flush. The appearance of Jimmy's
queen full seemed to astonish them i'm
mensely, the dealer shaking his head at it as
if it was all news to him, while Chippy Heinz
slapped his cards on the table as he turned
them down as if to indicate that something
more than the loss of the pot annoyed him.
WAS you born lucky as well as cookbook
ing2" he demanded, looking at Jimmy and
trying to force smile.
He does have swine luck when he takes a
chance" remarked Tommy Atkins, who was
quite pleased at the size of the pot that his
friend had just raked in.
"One of them kind that falls in sewers and
finds diamond rings, suppose" said Fatty,
looking up at Atkins with a sheer.
"Not exactly" retorted Atkins, picking up
courage enough to sheer back. zone of the
kind that used to write Pixies Peak or bust
on their wagons in '4o, is more like it."
Twice after Jimmy won that big pot, very
much the same sort of play came up. Jimmy
Burke seemed to get hands, by some queer
streak of luck, that were totally unexpected by
the other players. Chippy Heinz regarded
him with increasing luminosity and Fatty kept
up running comment on the ability of cards
to beat their makers.
Presently when Jimmy was at least five
hundred dollars ahead of the game, there
came along pot, in which Fatty dealt him
three aces, but when Jimmy came to skin his
cards for the draw he happened to notice that
he held also the king and queen of hearts, and
just for the fun of the thing, being so far
ahead of the game, he drew to the ace
king-queen of hearts, instead of to the three
aces.
There being two men in against him, both
of whom made one-card draws after raising
the ante twenty-five dollars, Jimmy began to
think he had missed chance if he was right
in his assumption that they were playing up
two pairs before the draw. Three aces
would be very handy.
Jimmy did not look at the two cards the
dealer gave him, but bet dollar offhand
with careless smile. At the same time he
saw Chippy Heinz nudge his right-hand
neighbor, Fatty, with his elbow. Whatever
this meant, it caused Fatty to withdraw his
intended raise and just see the dollar, leaving
the raising to the third man, who was age and
who promptly boosted it fifty.
Before going further, Jimmy thought it
best to have peep at his draw, and, turning
over the edge of one, he found it was the ten
of hearts. The other was the jack of that
suit
Assuming as careless an expression as he
could, he remarked that he would have to see
that fifty, anyway, and raise it just fifty more
for luck. Fatty now came in with a further
raise, which the age again raised.
~ always expect bluff from one-card
draws" said Jimmy, slowly, as he counted
off some bills. "How would a raise of two
fifty harder strike your"
"Mouth bets don't go here" interposed
Chippy Heinz. :" If you want to make any
bluffs yourself, young teller, after holding up
kickers, put up your stuff. That talks for
itself"
Jimmy blushed slightly at the tone of re-
proof, apologized, and remarked that as he
had not yet put up the two-ffty, he would put
i! up five hundred instead, which he promptly
did.
. Fatty laid down his hand at once, but the
other man demanded with an air of impa-
tience, Let's stop all this talk and play cards.
T How much does it take to call?"
Give hundred dollars to see my cards, :"
replied Jimmy promptly, looking him straight
= in the eye, and at the same time parrying
5 Fatty's attempt to get a peep at the cards
f alluded to-
: loan me two hundred, Chippy," said the
: age, and on being accommodated he put
enough in the pot to call, while Chippy Heinz
: leisurely gathered up the cards for the next
, deal, looking over at Jimmy at the same time
:. and remarking, as the age showed an ace-high
1 flush; 1" 1 guess your three aces amt no good
S this trip, young Teller"
z MY flush is ace-king high" was Jimmy's
f retort, as he raked in the pot, after spreading
e his five cards on the table.
The moment Fatty's eyes fell upon the
t royal flush, he banged his fist on the table with
S an oath, while the man who had called the
e hand fingered the cards over carefully, as if to
: be sure that they were real. Then he stood
S up, with the remark;
!, "That's enough for me for this evening. =
: A sentiment in which the others seemed tc
agree, and which promptly broke up the
= game.
S While sitting together at the supper-table
:. Jimmy and his friend talked matters over, ano
e both had apparently arrived at the same con
n clusion; these cattle men were nothing bu
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