The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-22
,arried on Now by the Third
Generation Of Con-
a testants.
lNORMOUs POT INVOLVED
Old Man Greenlaw Calls It q
Mystery, but Blaisdell
0As Doubts.
~ DAVID A. CURTIS.

"They is mo mysterious things hap.
pens IN draw poker nor they " into any.
shIn' else under the blue canister o
heaven" said old man Greeniaw with
profound conviction in his tone.
"Mebbe &c." said Jim Blaisdeli indif-
ferently. but ] don't call none on EN-
70 mind. not how I don't. Pears like
hey ain't nothin' mysterious bout
cscr, not IL man understands IT
light"
what was speal<in' about" retorted
the old man loftily, was them things
what happens I'm time to time. what
the mo- O man knows about poker the
less he en- understand EN-
II reckon tn amt many things o. that
kyind happens into the game" said
Blaisdell, who could be very stubborn at
times. 20 co'sc." ne added with an at
tempt at sarcasm, "they is things what
seems mysterious to a man II he don't
know much about the game. Mebbe
Them was. what yo' all was referrin' to-"
WANT. neither" snapped the old
man. ~ amt p'tendin' to say what
they's such.u hellova many on 'em hap
pens. M<bbe tn ain't, but they 10 some.
I reckon know what I'm talkin' about.
an tn nip't, no call To- yo' all tryin' to
devil me outen II.
"Yo' all f. a expert, right enough, but
they Is things what yo' all don't know.
no mo n nobody else. They was poker
played afo' yo' was horned. an they'll
be poker played alter 20 II done cashed
in final, TIL amt nobody knows It ALL"
"ltebbe not" said Blaisdell YEARLY,
but yo' hn chucks bluff at It 20 own
yssif a heap o. times. ! reckon I'll call
,R<<s 10 ~1xaN IL ~ he's
mysteries yo' all was tellin' on?"
We'll. 1 know u game O. straight
poker what was done begin when ! was
~ boy an faint finished yet" said the
bid man, way on II was"
Hold up!" exclaimed Sam Pearsall
nervously. rs this here one o. them
Greenville yarns?"
s"Sho' did happen In Greenville." i'd
mitted the old man. but I hain't no
Elections to sayin' I was some place
else II yo' all Is anyways p'ticlar.
Nought "a happened anywheres.''
well . longs they amt no Green
Vile into H." sadd Pearsail. who had
married a girl from that town, II don't
mind a-hearin' Of It," And he began
;illng his pipe.
Don't make no difference where
twas. said Winterbottom. II reckon
III ain't 'nothin' to II. nohow."
docs to me-" said Pearsall obsti.
nately. and old man Greeniaw swallowed
angrilyo twooor three times before he
could speak.
''They's mo- to 1t n yo' all en- render
. reason. he acclaimed finally. ANY
ways. the hull State O. Mississippi 10
gettin' al tore up long o the way It's
'CoFdin' to what l hear they is
A. -t.ls..
comm outen II n they ever has been
Uup to now II faint settled some way.
an they don't pear to be no way o.
settlin'-on IL. faint no further along
n twas nifty year ago. an the Lord
only knows how long 1t d been gOin' on
then.
- "Way 1t begin. 'eordin' to what was
told. was Ions of u game bein' started
when Sam Billings an Buck Whalen
wus both coffin the same gal. Just
nachully they want the best o. friends,
hut they hadn't been no blood shed up
then, befn's they want neither on
IN dead sho' o. the gal gittin' the huh
her pas estate. Pears they was a
over the will, an some reckoned
she wouldn't git none on It. I dunno
how that was, but reckon she lose
out. bcins they both married somebody
\ else afterwards.
They was seven playtn' into the
game when 1t besin. an It was straight
/ poker, bcip they. want no draw played
them days nor they want no limit.
neither. They didn't nobody put water
In his LIQUOR them times.
well, Billings an Whalen 'pearcd to
have niEir bout all the luck they was
runnin' that night. an one alter another
iii 81 b.v,,
was some o. the richest men in town
settin' in, too, an. bein's they all knowed
one another q veil q they done did,
they WASH Ssssd' able number o. o U's
tookened IA the game. 30 by the time
Abe others wa all froxe out them two
had win nigh bout all the money they
was In the c.munity.
"Mebbe It was just - we'll, In one
way o speakln,, how things went on
the way they did. To- IL them I o US ID
ever been elected q good part O. the
population d "a been reduced In cir
cumstants right painful"
~ alays herd how Southern gem
men paid their debts Of honor even II
Il done reduced EN- entirely" said Win
ierbottom In some surprise.
Would "a paid 'en. o. cose." said the
Old man Indignantly. III they'd a knowed
who TO pay EN- to. but that was one o.
the mysteries that growed outen the
game, an that's how come tn amt
hardly nobody In that part O. the State
Knows whether he's Afoot or ahoss-
hack an the Whalens an the Bulinsyes
wuss of n anybody else thataway.
| As | WAS a-sayin'. thsm two was all
| was left a-playin' when 1t done hap
pehcd tothers all havin' done lose out.
1 an what chips an money they was on
NE table was nigh bout even atwixt
en- not neither IN EN- having lose b
10 gret 'ytent, an both on EN- bein'
s~olled up c'nsld'able.
Ihey was both on EN- nanhuliy some
ooigslty' an bein' onfrisndiy anyway.
u.e they was. they sot In 70 do each
o.her up cmplete. I reckon says one
oh EN-, how yo' all be sorry TO- bein'
0rned afo' this here settin' u played
oul An rother one said 'On'y thing I'm
sorry bout up TO now II how yo' all
s6en yo'.'
Dsp'sin' one another like they done.
"a heap pn~kon>A t,nxs thAv