The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-10-29

issippi.
Mon likely the ledge d went
wrong his own self II he'd lived
/ year or 30 longer He drinked c'nsid-
able mon he ought, an he run bosses
an Mt cocks an played poker like mad,
not bin lucky at none on EN-. Consc-
| quent the family state was mostly
| squandered afU' Billy was bon. An by
the time he was growed up the jedge
d been Twin on borried money so
long what his credit was nigh bout
Exhausted.
Mon likely he'd been disgraced
/ II he'd a lived spell longer, but as
twas they couldn't nobody say nothn
again him. An he was that high spir-
I tied an hotty up to the day o. his
( death what they couldn't be no mis-
take bout him bein' a reel southern
! gen'man-
Nothing against the Judge.
Thy done give him funeral ftten'
TO man o his position in s'ciety, an
the ondertaker's bill want never paid
long o they ben' nothin but debts
| TO the wilder alter the moggiges was
/ fo'closed But they couldn't nobody
! say nothin again III ledge. He was
al'ays gen'man while he lived, an
/ he done died and got buried Ike a
! gen'man. an the Disgrace all come
onto Billy and the wilder.
"sho' was rough on Billy. Bein
\ quality h couldn't be expected To- To
/ 80 to work, an not havin' ben learned
how to play poker like his pad ought
! TO to did, they didn't pear to be moth
in TO- him 10 do, ony keep on livin' on
credit like his pa DONE an they was
c'nsid'able difficulty bout that, him
not hayin 'Nprience into II like his
pa had.
Gave Him Advice.
81 was keepin' bar to the tavern
them days an do'n tolabe we'll. 1t
I was Just afo' bought out the p'pietor.
I au' just nachully Billy done told his
/ troubles to me. o. co'se couldn't give
him no mony they not bein no pros
] Dect o gettin' it back, but | done bet
( ter. give him 'dvlce
First of ! done told him what they
want nothln' TO him to do ony 70 to
improve hisself
70 all won't never be no good"
! I says, ''thouten yo' git 40 yo can swat
| them that's done been swattin' yo all
so long into the game
"If that want shown sympathy TO-
n loser ] dunno what sympathy 70
loser is"
Here the old man paused in his
story and looked inquiringly at BIais-
dell, and that gentleman was forced
to acknowledge that maybe he had
been too harsh in what he had said.
He was interested, however, in the
/ question whether Billy Withers had
! protted by the advice that was given
to him in the extremity.
Could Not Play Poker.
Well, speakln' candid" said the old
man, "he didn't pear to git no good
outen it FIRST off. Just nachully he
couldn't play pokerG not havin' no
money, an they want no way O. him
| gittin' no money. bein's he couldn't
play poker Bein' a ge'nman. they
| want nothin' for him TO do on'y set
round the taver an wait 70 somepin
to turn up, but ! will say TO him what
| he done that faithful.
Mon that, he done set out TO to
improve hisself like told him he'd
ought o. co.'s he couldn't set in when
they was game on, but they didn't
nobody make no Elections to him look
in on. and he alays done that.
Nov they is them what en- set an
look on frever an not git no good
outcn it. Tn amt nothin' but actual
experience don't never learn 'em moth
in. But they's others what learn a
heap, p'vidin' they knows enough TO
to understand the fine p'ints o n
game an has the makin's of a player
into EN-.
Showed His Real Quality.
Right thar was whar Billy Withers
done proved That he was reel quality,
but Just nachully they didn't nobody
reelize it till later on. All they seen
was that he was settin' that musIn'
hisself seem who win an who lose
in the game. thouten takin' no part into
the game his own self,
What he was RELY dom was cdi-
catin' hisself an havin' the makin's
Of h player into he he done it remark
able well Twan't a helloya a while
afo' he knowed S much O. the science
o the game as anybody in Greenville
/ knowcd them days. That want moth
in 10 bras about. but it were enough
fo' to qualify Billy Withers To- to set
into the game on'y To- him not havin
no money TO play with.
Everything Comes, Etc.
But as the Good Book says, all
things comes TO him what sets an
waits, an one night Billy showed up
with wad They didn't nobody had
no idee at the time how come he got
II, an ais he said what he'd done had
money left TO him, but just nachully
they want no inquiry made into It
not then, they want. He done bought
chips. an that's all they was to It.
I'm that time on Billy Withers done
tol'ablc we'll, vim c'nsid'able mo an
he done lost, an stickin' to the game
till he come 10 be one o. the leadin'
citizens o GreenWlle, an dyin' rich
and respectable, even II twas some
suddint. happenin' like it did into a
poker game. long OF argument over
the deal, him takin' mo- Of a chanst
n he'd ought, an Deacon Pettigrew
catchin him at it. Leastways, that
was the way the deacon 'XplainGd it,
an the jury blieved him. so they want
nothin' never did about it mo n to-
have trial an acquit the deacon TO
self-defense