The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-03

frat lickin' sooner or later" replied
Dunn. II reckon II he's q gwine to git
his ell git 1t some time"
"They's somepin' in that, as the
Teller said when he drapped q chaw
o tobacco in the whiskey BOTTLE" said
Fryer t~houghtfuliy. but that amt
ais to be Considered. They Is two
others sets in at the game. an what
Jake Winterbottom an Sam Pearsall
don't know bout cross-irin' amt been
wrote into no book"
We'll even at that I reckon they
don't 'njoy no m'nop'ly." returned
Dunn. "They's others knows how to
seesaw when it's 'dvisable.
Trouble h." he continued, seeing
that the others were more or less i'm
pressed In spite Of themselves by his
reasoning. what everybody what goes
up agin he game in Arkansas City
gently goes alone. Sometimes they's
two goes together. but Eve that amt
no good agin a multitude like old man
Greenlaw Is got together.
"Poker's a queer game. an IT'S got
TO be played onderstandin'. tn Amt
no n man en- play II successful ag'in
a combination. An tn amt no COM
bination Liable To- to do no good ag'in
a other combination what's better'n
they be. Thing to do when they Is q
crowd like they un's playin' together Is
to git a better crowd together agin
en-"
That amt no easy thing to do"
mo. reckon faint. TIL amt nothin'
what's with dom Is heliroarin' easy.
All d'pends on whether it's with while.
II tbs It en- be did"
1T d be wuth while all right" said
Fryer with the first show OF en-
thusiasm he had made. 81 reckon II
they was TO- or five men went up as'in
that crowd an win out they cd split
up nigh bout a million dollars
amongst EN-. Old man Green.aw Is
done been rohbin' tn gen'l public so
long what he must have nigh bout
all the loose money they Is in the
hull valley. Yo' all en- count me in To-
one"
"Ill take a hand in my own SELF"
said Mathews. but they's got to be
c'nsiiab.e talent got together. First
on they'd ought 70 to be somebody en-
deal = we'll g Blaisdell. I dunno but
what One Eye en- do that. but he won't
play combination. Piers takin' a lone
hard. eve agin odds"
We'll. IL II comes to that" sale
Dunn. mode silly. Il en- rifle a deck
tol'able good my own self. don't
rever do it 'thouten it's RELY nec'ary.
bein's they's al'ays "A chanst o some
body takin' notice. but | reckon Jim
B.aisde.l can't do nothin' ! can't II I'm
put to il. An I'll give odds | en- tell
what he's n doin' Of every time.
"On'y thing is whether I'm gwine
to have backin' case O. Bissett buttin'
in when | cali him down. | amt
afcar'd a. him alone. He may be
bigger n I he. but I'm all hell with
a knife sgin one. I'd want the others
KEEP on though. mo- special the Old
mans bungstarter. amt skilled
agin that kyind OF a club"
Talks cheap" said Mathews sneer-
ingly. an yo' all pears to like yo'-
Sc. amazin'. Mebhe yo' be s good s
yo' says. but We uns amt had no
proof. 'Tain't likely we'd take no
cha st. not ,houten We knowed mo-
Well. that's reasonable" said Dunn
coed nlturedly. Tell yo' what I'll do.
II anybody wants to try me with
knives we en- have a exhibition right
now. An IL they Is any question O
what | en- do with the cyards p'duce
a new deck an ri show
Try the guards first of" suggested
Fryer cautiously. and a waiter was
summoned Immediately.
When the fresh deck came the big
Texan stripped of the rover threw
away the joker and scattered the re-
ma!nder face down all over the table.
Then scrambling the cards together
without apparently seeing the faces
at all he riffied them rapidly two or
three times. allowed t1em to be cut
and dealt out six hands.
No one in the party detected any
tr.ckery. Then he turned ali the
hands over. Five OF them held fouI
Of a kind and the ffth was a straigh,
flush. Then he did half a dozen othe,
stunts in quick succession, each al
startling as tae first, until finally
Fryer said:
I'll take yo' airs word 70 il. Bein
8 I don't tote a knife my own sell
I'm willin' 10 hlievc what yo' say,
about knives. Mo n that. I'll take
a rhanst on that Arkansas City trir
il they en- DC a party made up.
If yo' all deals ag'in Blaisdell an
undertakes to stop Bassett case OF q
rush I reckon me m Mathews CT
look out To- Pearsall an Winterbotton
= fur g c~ross-cuttin' goes. an IL |,
comes to a fight we en- hold them two
That leaves room To- one mo- in ouI
party To- to make it even handed, buI
they is one thing mo- to be remem'
bered what's mo- 'mpo'tant n all tn,
rest.
Somebody is got to stop old ma
Greenlaw when he comes in with his
b~ungstarter. lie sho' is a HOLY ter,
rOr."
Il reckon | wouldn't mind takin
the 10th hand into yo' combipation,
said Ed Kearny. a small. wlry man
who had hitherto listened in silence
but with much interest. divided. tina
is. what they is some way O. stoppin
the old man FIN buttin' in at thu
finish like they say he al'ays does
But il that amt did I wouldn't jim,
yo' party TO gold an Jewels"
This appeared to be the view enter
tanned by several others who sa'
around listening. and for a time /
. seemed likely that nothing would com
Of the partly formulated plan. blu
S,o. Gonna thn,,yht hmm enoka a on in