Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1912-07-26
Jake Winterbottom Travels Abroad

J
with guards an chips in the s'loon,
bout which one on EN- sh'd get the
most o. what sucker money there
was into the game. an when they
done got it all amongst EN- an the
two suckers dropped out, they looked
round TO- somebody to set in, BEN
it was some early.
Il seen 'twa'n't needful TO- me to
say nothiu,' so I jest waited an
bimeby one on 'em done asst me if
wouldn't take a hand, an I let EN-
p'suade me.
"They was playin with new guards
goose, an when I come to deal
'peared to find consid'ab trouble a.
handlin' on EN-, them bein' as slippS
as they was. I seen they was GRIMM
some an I says to 'em kind O. shame
faced like how I was mo- 'customed
to handlin' guards whathad beenused
some, an alter that they done pear
ed to be satisfied.
81 reckon I mought "a had mo
trouble n I RELY had if one on 'em
hadn't a. been tryin' to hog the
game. The others was playin' to-
gether an they was watchin' this
p'ticIar pirate as clost as they know
ed, but he sho' was slick. I seen he
was stackin' the guards when it come
O his deaf an I laid away couple o
spades what I thought moughs come
in handy case O. him givin' me
spade flush.
90 cos there want no reason TO
me to look TO no such hand, but
I played a bunch an it done come.
Way he framed it up he reckoned
on me boostin' an two other fellers
trailin' along while he was comm
back at me, an they done it. Pear
ed like they knowed what he was
+ reck'nin' on doin' to me an they was
lookin' To- to do him onto his own
deal. It was dog eat dog, sho' huff.
an I'd "a been ct if it hadn't "a been
TO- the luck. There's a heap O. luck
about draw poker, mo- special when
( yo' understands the game.
MY luck laid in him givin' me
spade flush o. co'se there want
nothin' but a bunch what made me
look TO it, but bunch is hell
roarin' good thing when it works, an
this unsho did work.
when I skun down my hand !
seen I had the nine, ten, jack o
/ spades an two little ones, an them
two what I had done laid away
afo'hand was the king an queen.
"This here gray haired pirate sho'
did know his business, TO them
other two had a full an a flush, an
he filled his 70 sevens on the draw.
They had mo- money n I had in my
wad. an they was still bettin' afo'
the draw, alter my money was all
ND an the pot divided so s to give
me a show TO- my pile.
"O' cose. everybody stood pat but
/ the dealer, when it come to the draw,
an he cleaned out them other TWO
With his TO sevens. When they asst
me what I had I says, "Tain't nothin'
but flush, an I laid it down, but, ]
says, its q straight. too an rakes
in fo'teen hundred dollars.
There was some gun play alter
that, an the gray haired pirate was
shot up a little, but nobody s'picioned
lac O. nothin'. there bein' no reason.
an | didn't play no mo- poker on the
ooat
just mach ky I was feelin' tolable
good when got to New Orleans an
1 went round to where done played
roulette the last time I was there.
They was still playin' it. an I looked
on q spell to see if tn old system.
worked. but it didn't so I knowed
they must "a changed the wheel, an
] didn't play none. Then, bein' s
I didn't hit no poker game that night
vent round to see tina lawyer felier
next mornin
"He made out he was monstrous
glad I'd came. Pears like that's a
part O. the game as he plays it, an
he tells me I'm Just in time to settle
Up handsome. If I'd "a been g week
later I couldn't a. got in on the
showdown.
"Fm what he said, pears like
there was somepin' like half a million
in tn estate first off, but, O. co'se, he
says there's been some expenses to be +
paid. sick as lawyers fees an costs
o. cot, an one thing an other. SO
there won't be SO much as that to
divide between me an this here Off
snriar what the cot done reco' ni1ed
rs bein legitimate. but still he saws
there's somepin handsome Left. an
t'other lawyer an him had made It
~, how n tharn wouldn't he no mo- F.