The Alaska citizen., 1913-06-23

.'Hsa ira.ors knew he Was their mea, Skj'l@'h gHijci and promIg,d by | Hc kon.uchfau rh, customer would H.-in inqui:inE tu.o tho Tcxau'. recent movements. Well. the Texan Id been 10 Cincinnati CT Chicago to ,git 5er h,a1 of s'osk: he vas now on his Way home again: h. had Teen locked un once while in tho ri'T for getting drunk, and kind Iutse had le, him off with warn ing: he had taken . vbirl at the town and h1l spoa, s2'o iu on, evening.
 Hu' ho didn't spend all of that moHsr on @ine. woman. song ant haak fidrS. no ~iree IIe los. S7- ot f Huskias a new k.nd of kyar' zane. and the next morning when he WIS sohcr he went and huntps mp inc chap who'd won from him and gave thr man SD more fus. ta show him how to work i. Now he "as going hack to I'idalgo County to beat all the other trlIaxs All this heinz told with au unron- ~cious humor and rich. soft iraw1 that kept the listeners sniekerius.
 A this iuncture the customer. stifliug q smile might generally be coun'ed upon to ask What was this game you learned" If he didn't 'hink 10 ask it. The Kentuckiar Nou1d ask il for him.
 From the folds of rcd haplanna he Texan would shake out thrce greasy. rhumhcd playing cards. and. sitting down uow for the first tine iT Jhe scat facing the others. he would proceed to manipulate the yasts with 2 clumsincss that was 5o ludicrous a. to he almost pathetic
 Why. know that game" tha kentuckian would say. almost in. stanIly That's nothing hut three caGd monte My friend. surely you didn't fall for such an antiquatea old bunk as rhree-car1 monte. dii you?"
 Nav suh" the Texan Woaid ar sNcr. srutborn1v. still awkWaraly making the shifts. this were -enrlr- m1n tall me lii wuz Califorail cucl. rc. That's her name California 'uehre."
 The upshot of all this would be that presently the kenuekian, witl 2 sly wink at his new found friend woald make a couple of small bets With the Texaa on his ability 10 Lick out fhe ace This would, iaci= 'ee'ars. gise rhe Texan 8 chance to display a huge roll of bills Ghe Nentuekaan Non1i win boah times, be oanse through the Texans handling If the three cards t was ridieulonsly easy to locate the ace. Then he would offer to make q thir1 bet fpr bissor stakes.
 Nav, suh," the Texan would reply, that thar fcller up in Chicago told me if ever a man beat me twic'' hand runnin' no, 10 play with him no noah, cause hit Wuz a sign his eye WIZ quicker'n my han"
 Then. turning to the amused GUS toner who by this time. ualess the grafters had miread his nature. ~as beginning 10 have an itch for some of this ignorant Wcsterners ea,v money, he would say:
 "Mismh, less you an me play once't, jest fur fun?"
 The alert Kentu akian would sho't quick glance at the customer" which s4id planncr than words, "IIu- nor him along" then as the Texan Hcut to his job of shifting the th"ee cards he would whisper in the sn'} CTS ear:
 Take the wrong card."
 Catching the seeming intent of this suggestion the sucker would purpose iq pass the ace by and pick up the nine spot.
 T kin beat you anyhow. ,nistah." the Texan would cackle in sle". doubling himself up and s'ar;in" his sides. Now less do hit again. ies' fur fun
 Again the same interchange of rods between the kentuckian and the
 ueker. anl again the wrong card ~ouli be lifted by the latter. The Texan would turn his head T "a to laugh Quick as flash the Kentuckian's hand would slip out and before the Texan straiehtenet up again the kentuckian had bert upward one corner of the ace so that there was no longer any possi- ble chance. apparent. for any ore with eyes in his head 10 mis take it. But the Texan would be busy making wager for real mo le this time with the willing cns'omo" It was also tie Kentuchian's task here to influence the victim to risk as large sum IS possible. Bu' it wasn't necessary usually, because the customer seeing no possible chance of losing. and having his | h1