The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-14

place at that time, not havin' been there
long enough TO to buy 1t, reckoned his
credit was good. so I let him have 1t.
an alter he drinked 1t he called TO an
other sayin' he reckoned how he needed
mo- n usual, long o bein' troubled
into his mind
81 reckon / done bit off mo- n ! cd
chaw when | got married. he says. It's
done got so when start in to lick the
chin | has to b'gin with the oldest. IL
! bgin t'other way round, like useter,
I'm that tired by the time gifts to the
Oldest what / can't do justice to EN-,
an mo n that I'm liable to git licked
my ownself.
Pears like 1t takes a heap o judg-
ment to raise a family proper. reckon
mebbe ! got judgment enough. but
pears like my stren'th is failin' c'nsid'-
able Bill come nigh lickin' me this
mawnin' an | was that tuckcred out
when | finally got the best on him what
| kyind o. spiclon how some q the
younger ones got away.
"'They's al'ays some anXieties like
that a-comin' up an it's doggone wear
in. reckon / better have one mo
drink
II seen how he needed Encouragement
mo n he did liquor. SO l says to him
how some o. the boys he had was git
tin old enough so IS they'd ought TO
to be help to him, stead of a burden.
| but he shook his head mo'nful like, an
i he says:
"I don't see no chanst O none on 'em
/ 'mountin' to nothin'. ! did had some
hopes o Bill when he was hitler n he
/ is. bein s he showed c'nsid'abe Interest
when | fust begin learnin' him poker,
! but pears like he hain't got no nachul
/ talent. They is 70 r five o the younger
ones what beats him out easy. an IN
amt none on 'em plays no good game
'Mebbe faint so bad as 20 al reck-
ons tits, | says to him. They must be
dozen or two boys among en- | says,
AN out o that number, stands to rea-
son they Is liable to be one or two
what's gwine to turn out well.
Like enough yo' won't never be
| able to make no Professionals outen 'em
seem it's on'y oncet in while they Is
a man BON what's got the nachul abil-
ity TO to be II p'fessional. But good
steady player en- alays make enough
outen the game to git along on II he
Just plays round home an don't onder-
take to travel the boats.
go co'se. | says. they is alays suck
ers what amt no ptic'lar use to mo-
body on'y to set in an p'vide wads TO
the reel players. but stands To reason
when IA mans got s many as yo' all
oil no suckers Pears
like that d be playin' II too low down
even 70 a dispensaiory o Providence
But all S he said was I dunno. I
useter reckon thataway my own self.
Pearcd like | hadn't never done nothin
70 to d'serve no such affiiction. but
I'm crafty losn' faith he says. i
dunno Just how many on EN- is boys,
an how many on EN- is gals. but pears
like the gals is got mostly all tn IN
telligcnce they is into the family, an
don't see no hope o nothn' into my
old age
well. | couldn't say nothin' to that
| knowcd we'll enough how 'twa'nt no
good To- to argy asin the mystries o
Providence Them that hain't no ptic-
| lar use TO somepin' Is the ones that
gifts IL. an that's all they is to 1t.
eff Prov idcnce had done ordained how
all tn intelligence in the family sh'd go
TO the gals. lcavin' none 70 the boys,
'peared like the deacon was right when
he said they want no hope, so | give
him another drink an tells him how
reckoned all they was TO him to do
was to put his trust in Providence any
how. even If twas foolish. an he took
the drink an stated 70 hum
"I ed see how he staggered cnsid- =
able when he went so knowed he was
right bout him gittin' old. TIL amt
nothin mo- melancholy n that into "A
mans life 'thouten he keeps his stren'th
with 1t.
81 will say 70 the deacon, though,
what he was perseverln'. When ne
seen how they want nothin' to be x
pected o Bill he done picked out one
o. the others named Sam, as bein' the
like,iest o. the lot, an put his hull mind
to maxim player o him.
"He mought IA did II, too. II Sam d
"a been a leetle mo- Cap'ble n he was. TO
the deacon acch'y got lin so st nc
cd play fair game. Csctcr lick him
like thunder whenever he done lose, an
nut the fear o the Lord into him that
away, so st he reelized how he was
'bleeged to win, that be!n' one o the
first principles o poker,
But they want no gret good come
of it, alter all Yo en- make n whistle
outen "A sow's, ear II yo' try hard enough
but that amt TO say how the wnistle II
be good 70 nothin' when it's made.
sam got so. in the co'se o time, what
he cd set In with tn old man an help
out c'nsld' able playin in cahoots with
him. an not ondertakin' to do no ptic'-
lar stunts on his own hand. 5 longs
he stuck to that. 'peared like he done
, tolable well, an they was quite spell
tods the last when it sho' looked Ike
they was liable to he some prosperity
into the Peabody family again, but
'twa'nt ony just the flicker OF dyin
candle, an tn old deacon was finally
snuffed out by his own offspring wha'
he done rose up TO TO be the hope
his d'clinin years.
way on il was they was SIX into tht
game, an the game was onusual sim
They didn't nobody know II TIL aler'
, wards but the huh Peabody wad was
, into it. Pears like the deacon d made
, up his mind what they had TO be
KILN, him bein' nigh to the end o MI
resu'ces an he done rose all the money