The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-25
)LD MAN GREENLAW
SPINS A FINE YARN
But Is Interrupted and Some
what Confused by His
,.. -Four Friends.
hESORTS TO Bl NGSTARTER
Nv DAVID 4. CURTIS.

1amming his pipe into his pocket with
one hand and his hat down over his
eyes with the other he walked rapidly
toward the door of the old mans sa-
loon, where the usual group had been
sitting in socable silence.
He said nothing, for there was TO
need to say anything. His action was
eloquent to the others a. to his feelings,
and all. with the exception of the old
man himself respected those feelings.
SANS wife came from Greenville.
The old man, however. though he
resented the bitter hostility which Pear
sail invariably displayed toward Green
Vile whenever that place was mentioned
Was not minded to lose an auditor. Be
sides that he had reason to expect the
advent OF n stranger who was likely to
play poker. and he did not wish Pear
sail to absent himself from the game.
The story ne was about to tell he de-
signed merely for the purpose OF be-
gnling the time meanwhile.
90, although he by no means relin-
uuished his intention OF telling the story,
, he WINS willing enough to change the
form OF II a little. and just as Pearsall
vas about To open the door he inter-
pted himself hastily.
Come to think" he said, this yere
man didn't blong In Greenville 'Peared
Ike his hard luck was long o hun
comm there I'm somcres else
SERVED him dam well right" srowled
Pearsall and he returned to his seat.
He was not overload OF listening TO
any OF the old mans stories. not having
an abiding faith as to their veracity.
hut Il was easier to SIT in the saloon
ard hear one of them than II was to
walk around on the levee, and there
was no other place. in Arkansas city
where he particularly cared to be. II
was too early to go home.
he was mo- r less of a yap," con-
tnued the old man. Ignoring Ptarsalrs
slur on a community for which he him.
self had some kindly feeling. but they
vas some said what he was tofable well
~ to home Had land an niGGers, an
a kyind OF n family sich as twas. in
stead Of which he was he'll bent on trav-
lin. Feared like he want no ways
p'ticlar where he went : long g he ed
cit away an that was how come he
come to Greenwich
Must "a been tired o life," said
Pearsall. snoring disdainfully.
'1 reckon he was mo- r less thataway
a'ter he done been there spell. said
the old man. willing To oblige. 70 II
ever they was man trompled und r
foot hy the horny hand o diverse tate
Il sho' was him.
ale was c'nsidahle clipper when he
'pnared onto the scene, an TO + W
DAYS ne swelled round town Ike he
didn't had no anticipations o trouble 70
his past life nor no unpleasant rcclec-
ha "a
tail feathers was npped in the bud by
the crool ironing o fate, an he done be-
come "A spectacle o. c'miseration. They
want nobody round what was po
enough To- To call him 'Yo' reverence as
the Good Book says
"Pears like somepin' must a hap
pened him" observed Joe Bassett WIN
some interest Did he git in fight?
"He fit with circumstants," said the
old man. IAN they was too many TO MIN
let alone they was others In the game
what understood poker mo- scientihcker
n he done.
"They want no SIGH hell roarin' good
game o. poker played in GrecnNille them
DAYS neither. o. cos everybody played
IT, like everybody arays has I'm time
immaterial. but they hadn't been no
moral improvements interJuced to the
game at that time. They was three or
TO- men what used 70 to set in what
ltnowed somepin' bout 1ugGlin the
cyards, but they was some clumsy at u
an the rest on 'em was that preCdiced
again hayin' II did what 'twan't gently
reckoned how twas anyways safe 10
TO try H. not 'thouten they was d
stranger settin' into the game.
.They had been one or two whatd
IN In
onto their nsighbors when the game
was friendly like, but they'd been shot
an the genI onderstandin' was how
they want nobody in Greenville what
was liable TO- to play crooked, on'y. Ike
done said, the rul-s agin II want
alays c'nscrewed so strick when they
was a stranger playin'.
Even at that they didn't nobody In
Greenvllle make out none too well a
poker even ag'in strangers, hein' as how
the genl run o strangers was mostly
cross road players, trav'lin' TO- thei'
health, an mostly mo- cap'ble n any o
the home talent. If they was any jug
glln' did them tinhorns was liable 70 n
do II they own sells. an the Greenvill'
players was USUALLY did up.
But this yer stranger what I'm tellin
on want no p'fessional. That 'peareC
to be sho', whatever else he mought "A
been To- he done played . monstrou!
po' game o. poker He let on how hi
name was Perry Wrinkle. an he 'peareC
To he c'nsidahle stuck up about IL, bu
they want nobody took no gre't notice
a. that, hein's he 'pearcd T. be nachuNN
mo- r less biggity, an II he was gwin'
to he thataway didn't make no d!f'renc'
whether It was over his name or some