The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-05-14
(: Lallapaloosers can't be
played But onc't OF
a settln'.

don't put that in the cash drawer.
SOS t wouldn't git loosed. an the
very next night Pete Grostean done
come In TO- game.
"Wlnterbottom didn't want to
play. him bein' mo- r less c'nserva-
tive them days an not KNOWN what
the new house rule was. long o.
+, Blaisdell bein' d'sIrous o. springin'
on 1t as a kyind O. s'prise like. Jake
d done lose out repeated again GrOs-
jean an he says what he amt no
hawg TO- punishment an he knows
when he got enough o. that II he
want easy satisfied when things was
gwine his way. An Pearsall was over
I to Greenvllle co'tin the gal he mar
ried later on, go it looked like they
want nobody but Jim to set in with
/ Grosjean, but l reasoned with Win
terbottom TO- spell, handin' him a
! stake, an he says very well, what
no amt no objections to lose a mother
mans money If 1t comes to that, so
they was thrce-handcd game,
~ seen what d DO better TO- to
I have mo- n two into 1t, case of a
argument. TO- Wlnterbottom sho' Ia
dependable when it comes to bnckin'
up the house, He ol'ayH comes to
tho help o. tho LRwd agln the AL
mighty, MS the Good Book says,
well the game begin like it most
gently done when Pete set in, He
/ didn't pear to had no greet luck
when niaisdoll doied the guards but
lie Bho done win amazin onto his own
Il 1, u h oil NTH tho banda
he got I'm Winterbottom, SO he was
gittin' ahead rapid. when Jim GoRH
caught his lallapaIooser.
stand to reason he wouldn't n
got It If Grosjean d "a knowed what
twas 1t bein' his deal, an him reck-
min on having the best hand his
ownselflike he gently had. being \
excellent dealer. But him not know
In nothing bout 1t. It done come
by act O. Providence.
We'll, it was Winterbottom's age,
an whom Blaisdell seen his guards he
done bet out. Pete had fo's all right.
Fo' sevens they was If remember
right, an just nachully he rose It.
an Winterbottom folded.
Jim went back at him with 9
Hundred mo- an I 'spicioned what
was comm but O. co'se Pete didn't
had no twinklln' Of It an he done
rose it agin. They done KEEP It ur
till they was quite a pot an jim
/ closed it. He said later on what he
didn't aim to bust Grosiean thi,
time, on'y to git him mad, so'st he'd
put up his pile when he sh'd get q
lallapalooser his own self, like he'd
most likely do.
Then they both stood pat an
llaisdell bet other hundred. Pears
like Grosjean must s'picioned some.
pin TO he never rose it, but on'y
called, havin't his TO- sevens.
But Blaisdell says, Il wln,' an
reached TO- the pot. an Grosjear
says. 'Yo' all pears to be some drunk
lo' amt got nothin'.'
"oh. yes has, said Blaisdell. y
got lallapalooser.'
Cant you Sc TO yoself? says
Elaisdell. 'They's all TO- suits an the
fifth cyard is dimond. That ties a
straight flush
Just nachul, Grosiean draws O
gun. II hadn't knocked it outen hi.
hand with bungstarter they mought
a been a disturbance. But wher
. we showed him the sign and Explained
what it was the house rule, he ca MOD
fisself some, an played alone like
| he was moor less 'xasperated IN
reckoned TO- to git even.
so l done went outside nm Eo
that other sign an como back in The
back room an stuck 1t up on thu
wall when he want looking. 'PeRret
like no was too busy lookln' TO- !
Nallapalooser of his own 70 to pa,
IGNITION to what was goIn on, what
El'ays mistake TO- man 10 d.
whom he's playin' poker, no matte
what he's got into his fist, But any
ways. that what no done done,
Just nachul he didn't had n,
such of wnd as ne done had whei
he set In, 70 Jim done hit him toll
able hard the flrst time, but he haC
Considerable left an he aho' had tn
courage o. hls convictions, whateve
Twas he'd done been c'nvicted of, w,
uns never knowed nothin' bout that
him not beln' residenter, but
reckon It must'a' been someplp' ser
'ous.
"well. blmeby IT come Blalsdell'
deal. an will say To- Jim what tn,
guards Is liable to lay the way h
wants 'em to alter he's done gave 'eu
out. an l spicioned firm the wa,
Grosjean looked what he must "a
l caught O lallapalooser his own self