The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11
BLAISDELL BEATEN
BY A BOLD BLUFF
Mr.. Owen Pepper Relates the
1n!k With GrStO and Flccs
for His Life.
SOME DOUBT AS TO 4 JOKE
BY DAVID A. CURTIS.

,"rhey is them" said old man Green
Law. "uhatl, take 'dvantSge ~ them
what has 10 do with EN- cv'ry time
they gifts a chanst. Fears like they d
ruther make a dishonest dollar n to
win IL often EN- legitimate. into a game
o draw.
20 co'se. it's all risht IL is did reg
4 lar in the co'se o. business. an did onto
a large scale. so s { they s enough Into
1t TO- to make u Uuth while. lf he
gi:s to he a manufacturer o. gret
wealth. IN amt nobody swine To hot
+. asin him. Some o. tho Sc holier n
thou yaps says faint money II IT'S
got tha,away. but tn amt nothin' in
ttat. Money IL money. an IN amt no
sense in sayin' faint. Il a man has
Enough on II. II he don't sit enough.
| that's din rent"
II reckon it's aliays diff rent then"
said Jim Blaisdell in a very unpleas-
ant tone Of voice. TIL amt nobody
got enough money. not never. tn
Amt. The mo- he gifts. the mo he
pears to want
There we're times when Mr.. Rlais-
VVi VI 'lslil' INV w dkIte Win
anything that was said 10y anybody.
Knowing him as an artist. his friends
attributed this to temperament. ana
generally let II go ut that. but just nov
old man Greenlaw was In an argument
tative mood and was also dis.nclined -
agree with any who assumed a critical
attitude toward anything I've said Ana
ne took Mr.. Blaisdel.'s utterance as a
criticism.
That's din'rcnt again he rasoed.
Any fool d ought 70 to know what
ne pint is how much he's 2o;. rot
Row much he wants
Well" retorted B.aisdell. still more
extensively. "bein's I amt no fool. |
: Gnnno what the pint is Pears ike
20 all does. Anyways yo' pears to
ptorJ 70. Mebbe 20 don't
I'm be doggoned 4: I kin. neither.
4 Pears like N amt no pirt to II, no
how" said sam Pearsali. as IL dis.
gusted. His tone. however. lacked con-
\ v.ction and IL seemed as II he were
m~slic.orsly intent on promoting a die.
turbance rather than concerned with
the question a, issue.
Jake Winterho;;om was also wilkins
~ '''Nff dFb uS SI"h' uI.
20 co'se tn amt he said. "hu that
Amt no reason why yo' 'uns d olgh;
TO TO he devl.n' the cid man like 70
b. Let him rave. Don't do nobody
no harm. an it makes him mo- easy
Ike. in the had
Joe Bassett M the dove Of peace
were affected d.versely. The former
showed every sign OF intense JOY,
though he said nothing. ana the latter
easaysd a deprecatory COO. but evi.
IDENTIFY realizing the futility Of II. in
c~ontinently departed from the prem
iseA. Or. n the phrase he preferred
Il may be SAID that she fed the scene
II was no place for a lady, anyhow.
Raising his voice. the old mar
cursed them all bitterly. continuing &c
do this with great v!gor and an ad.
mirable choice Of invective until hi.
vtsaEc was empurpled and his imne.
date supply Of breath was exhausted
40 that perforce he paused for a mo.
ment.
Before he could begin again Jakt
winterbottom aid calmly. highs
on understand. they pears to he som,
idee what a man didn't ought TO TO ei
no money. not 'thouten he's got 4
Already. Fears like that's dangerous
doctrine. as the Good Book saws. The,
wouldn't be no sense in playin' poke
: n that vas to p'va.i."
sNo mo- III amt" eron,ed R,a,sde,l
Who wa too cantankerous tina, eve
ming to entoy the occasion as niue,
as the others were entoying IL. Least
vays tn Amt no sense into IL" h,
continued. .If yo' don't know no mo
'bout II n 10 20 broke onto 10 king
into n freeze out when n drunk.,
stranser deals EN- N yo. Mo- specia
n yo. stts a ace with EN-. Talk abou
4 fool"
Here Mr.. Blaisdell seemed also I,
become incapable Of further speech
not from lack NJ breath hut becaus
n was impossib,e IN add ANYTHING I.
what he had said without weakenin,
the fore. ~ II No meaner fling a, IN,
o,a man could hs We been delivered h.
Nj. hitteres, enemy than he. RIaisJell
hsd accomplished in TIM. holding hin
I'm To derislon by recalling a recen
episode in which the old man ha,
Aone the very thing described.
A for the old man. IL Joe Basset
h.A been 80 carried away by the lus
a. strife al 10 rouge his eve out. n
could not have been worse stricken
An the heart went out of him and h
cola psed in q huddled up attitude II
his fayorite seat by the window. Fun