The sun., 1912-08-04
Glib TUCKER A MAN
LACKING IN FAITH
Arkansas city Based Hopes OH
What 1t Learned Of Ills
Pcculiaritics.
GREENLAW POINTS MORAL
Evidence That a Poker Player
May Gct Along Without
Confidence.

snalty ant amt no Use Gettin het up
over It. Pears like tn 'ain't no way fo'
70 get the best o. Providence a'ter it's
done been settled how a thing like that
IA TO he did. But what gets me goin' is
when a man makes up his mind it's goin'
10 rain when mebbe faint nothin' mon
A hp cloud overhead, with mebbe little
thunder n lightnin'.
There was Glib Tucker. He"
Where was he's interrupted Joe Bas-
sstt rudely.
Old man Greenlaw looked at him in
surprise.
Don't make no p'tic'lar difference
~hers he was" ne said very severely.
but he was there, wherever twas. He
dome
Makes a hellova lot O. ff'rence." in
tSrupted Bassett again. still moro rudely.
~ Glib Tucker was anywhercs round
when twas did he's the man l want.
Feared like tn evidence was tolablo
strong as'in Buck Hyde. an he WAS
lyrched accordin'. but there was mo- or
lsss picionso O Tucker an II he was RELY
,hers. like yo' all done said he was.
p'pose to have things 'xplained.'
'Yo' all pears to be some mixed" said
the old man still more severely Il hain't
made no fusion to no murder case. Pears
ike that amt noways important. no how. .
buck Hyde was the corpes deliCti, as the
lawysrs say. an tn amt no sense in rakin'
Up charges agin' Glib Tucker. was on'y
talkin' bout his moral character. Pears
like this here murder case amt got nothin
TO do with that"
l~na l,
persiated Bassett. IAN bein s was the
ono what hung Hyde l vas nachally in
'erested. I'm alays ready TO do what q
hight II there's any mistake been made"
Docs yo' credit. said the old man, "but
This here discussion is bout Glib fuckers
moral character. like I was sayin.
Feared like he was just nacha!ly bon
~ith mo- r less Of a forebodin' disposi-
hon. an he was al ays a-lookin TO trouble.
always reckoned there was the maxim s
,of a good poker player. in to him, TO he
sho' could handle deck o cyards mas
terly. but 'peared like his disposition was
he ruination Of him when il come TO
hackin' a hand
y done seen him throw down three
kings oncet when Bill Temple rose him a
hundred an stood pat. An his own side
nardner was dealin the hand II that
,in't lookin' TO trouble when 'tain't
dunno whct is."
Couldn't a had much conf dence into
ha pal. said Blaisdell. disapprovingly.
Didn't have no conf dence in nothin'
nor anybody" continued the old man.
IF he had q dead sho' thing TO TO bet on
as wouldn't risk no money onto it like
h., l,,'t
prosper like he'd oughtcr.
Il seen him oncep plavin' faro IN Bat
Hitchcock g place III Nictshur-, when Bat
vas deahn his ownself an Bill Spotswood
was BLOWN in all twas left % the Spots
wood estate IF there was nnv1hin' under
the blue canister Of heaven wnat man
I'D bet on twas how Bill Spotswood was
goin' to lose his wad
Bat want overlookin' no suc,i nppor-
runities as that. 70 Spotswood was some
drunk an had consid able Of a wad. All
intelligent man had TO d. was II copper
MS beta In q small way. an rake in the
Tough. took down some little spsniin
money my ownseif that night. even il
tis ag'in my principles 10 to play faro
Iong o seein' how things was Goin'. Bu
f'ib Tucker he pikcd along 'thouten any
iAf'ence 10 what Spotswood was doin
~ an just nachul he lose too.
But thsFe was one bet he pulled down
ter he done win II, count o. not havin
no confidence in nothin'. Come to th'
at turn. and there was a seven. deuce
s1g in the box. Spotswood called tn,
urn TO 70 hundred, king deuce. an
here was consid able xcitement rounc
tah hn In IL
40 such size bet afo' that. Bats lim
vas most gen'Iy hundred. but 'pearet
IKE he was het up consid able an Eh'
didn't make no 'bjections when Spots
wood piled up his chips on the table
% . co'se the bet went.
seen what he was playin an I saw
% myself what here was liable 10 he tn,
as' chanst % winnin' on that hunch
n.n'e Spotwood was liable 10 90 broke
.n ] called the turn my ownself. deuce
.lng. 70 $40 7 didn't dast to put N
more onto it. fo' Bat knowed we'll enougl
vha, ! was doin' or an ] seen I'm tn
uslv look he give me what I was sho
roin' "a win. hut he didn't dast to max
NJ kick. not Just then he didn't. an m,
st went too.
Well, everybody was that interested Il
sAtchn' that end o. the table what no
nodv paid no 'tention to blue chip will
stdprer on II what laid on the seven spot
Pears Glib Tucker done put II there. on
ntv turns afo that. an let it lay. but h
sot Interested In Spotswood's play. hk
81 tho rest on ns done, an reckon h
n.s' a forgot IT, Anyways. It was stil
here. ater Bat pulled the turn an rake,
rrotswoods pile. o. cose he had I,
Az me outen il, an made up my min,
isr' speedy what 'twa'nt my night I,
nav M mo not while Rat was feein' tn
's' he WA
1nen he looked over the bod an seeI
',e tNe chip an the copper an he say
whose bets ihst?'
And Glib Tucker. he sort o wakes uI
Ar te.ays, That's mine. an; he pulls /
1ovn
never eeen nothin' like IL. afo' no
: .hc' hpt % o'se Bat want maxim M
o'Ar'icns an nobody else didn't offer Z,
So no'hin an then hat turned the box
reared like 'twa'pt worth while 70 4
'ea! nn longer. bein' e s;potswood wa
81 n
Alter We done got outside I says t.
no how come yo' all done pulled dow
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