The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-05-09


where he fell. an he INST nacbu,,v
struck out To- 1t, bu. when no com.
nigh enough TO- to grab II. he seen
they was a lady hangin' onto one
oend on II. She 'pearcd to 10 niSh
""u' gone, 10 she was all under
water, on'y To- one hand what she
ne., onto the plank with. an they
uiuh pear to he much use tryin' 70
40 notnin 10 her. 'Tain't everybody
would "A paid no 'tention to her onder
INC circumstants but what Calhoun
uone was some s'prisin'.
lie ketched holt of her an pulled
Nor up on to tho plank, an STAYED
alongside OF her til he done seen
shed got her breath an peared to be
able to hang on To- her own self an
then he swan away To- a other niece
- the wreck what want fur away.
That want hardly big enough To- Two.
neither. an they was a man tryin' to
climb up onto 1t. but Calhoun swum
up an got on top his own self. Then
he kicked the other man on an floated
on down the river TIL him an some
few others was picked up by the Queen
o the Bayous. what came along a
hour or so later.
THAT was Jerry Onc't in a while
he'd do somepin' o that kyind. what'd
show how they was some good into
him. even IL he was a p'fessional, but
O. co'se, beln' a pfessional. 'twa'n't to
he looked TO what he'd do EN- frequent
Fo' the most part, he was just plain.
emery poker playin' fightin' man. on'y
he peared to be mo- all round capable
n any O. the others.
"He want no gre't hand 10 drinkin'.
bein how his business interfered with
II to some 'Xtent, but Il he was playin'
sucker an 1t 'peared TO be nec'ary
TO To drink with him to git acquainted
Jerry d drink right along an not
never show no sign. reckon IL he'd
"a gave his mind to Il he mought "a
sized up with some o. the best drink
ers they was.
Same way with nghtin'. Feared
like he didn't keer nothin' 70 that
on'y when he was just nachully
'bleeged to fight. but when twas they
want nobody liable TO- to git the best
on him.
"If they was a gunplay he'd most
renly draw first I don't call TO mind
nobody never gittin' his gun out afo'
Jerry Calhoun. on'y that time Gardner
done 1t like | was just a-sayin' but
even at that Jerry wouldn't never
shoot 'thouten he seen tother man
didn't had no sense an was hell bent
on kecpin' II up. | never knowed him
to XIII nobody. not 'thouten he was
fo'Ced.
Even at poker he was like that.
7 reckon they want none on EN-
cd handle "A deck no better n Jerry
Calhoun II he was put to it, ] want
never no hand To- playln' poker my
own self. but I've done looked on at
the game all my life. an tn amt
nothin' what can't reco'nize when us
did. even II don't p'tend to be able
to do II my own self.
AN Jerry was as slick as any
on EN-. but never seen him do
nothin' crooked 'thouten he seen what
he couldn't outplay the other man
into "A fair game. o. cose If tother
man undertook to play crooked with
him that was dif'rent.
"If he seen they was any skull
duggery into the game he wouldn't
never say nothn'. That want his
| way. AIS he'd do was 10 stay out
I'll IL came his deal an then most
gently he'd make up TO all he done
| lose afo' that. Feared like alrs he
keer'd about was what he cd make
outen the game. s fur s the kettle
rhent was c'ncerned he want intr-
! ested.
THAT was how come they 'peared
J to be somepin' kyind o p'theuc like
I bout the last game | ever seen him
play. II he'd "a been did up by some
/ other p'fessional wouldn't "a thunk
| nothln' p'tic'lar of 1t, an II he'd been
/ lust a plain. ornery skunk, like PIES
| SIGNALS Is. they'd "a been c'sidable
| satisfaction into it, but ! been tryin'
| to tell how he was some difrent I'm
the genI run, an | al'ays looked onto
| it as kyind o crooi.
They WAS ondersized, crooked
1 legged. one eyed man come abo'd the
River Queen one night just as we was
startin' up the river from NicksburS
an begin strutt!n' round like he was
somebody. They hadn't nobody never
saw him afo' an nobody never knowed
who he was. lie went asho at Ar
kansas city alter twas over, an
never herd no more Of him.
We'll. he peared to have c'nsid able
I Of "A thirst, an he come into the bar
repested an drinked alone. Took a
tol'able stif horn every time too, nut
IL didn't pear to take no holt on him
til. he goes up to Jerry Calhoun an
says to him what he's lookin' 70 a
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