The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-09-10
Lack of Preparation When He
Passes Card in Poker
Game is Cause.
By David 4. Cnrtis.

sheDpe twas wrote parahoiiC, TO they S
heap o things into Scripter what
amt nothin' but parallels, an they
amt nobody Expected 70 to pay no
ntcler 'tention to EN-, not thouten
ey don't know no better. but this yer
YIN is liable TO to he misleadin if
It's took lit'ral. That's where the high
er edtcation comes in, Takes a scholar
TO understand the Scripters right.
That thar sayin' bout computation
mought been direct enough in the
middle ages when 1t was wrote. but
II don't hold good these times. Pears
like its too old fashioned They amt
nobody what xpects to do business
successful wants c'mputitor to open
s'loon mex do.
Source of Inaccuracies.
i reckon mebbe they must a been
some mistake made when the Scrip
tiers all had to be wrote over again.
They was wrote in Latin first Off long
o nobody onderstandln' the English
language them days. Everybody was
ig'nant then. an just nachully they
was 'bleedged to write in Latin, long
q they not bein' no other language to
write into.
Consequent they all had to be wrote
over in English, later on, otherwise
they wouldn't he no Scripters today,
en- somebody done 1t, but he was
pledged to translate them Latin
words into somepin' what Intelligent
people cd understand. an they was
mistakes made in translatin'. heer'd
preacher say that onc't, SO 1t must a.
been thataway. Stands to reason he
wouldn't lie bout nothin' like that"
Well, / dunno but what all that
means somepin'. but I'm be dawg-
goned II I know what It's" said Jake
Winterbottom critically, as the old man
paused to light up, his cigar having
gone out while he talked.
Greenlaw is Modest.
"Yo all pears to think" continued
the critic, what they is somepin'
wrong bout the way the Good Book
was wrote. Why don't yo' come right
cut an say how yo' all d a. wrote
it If yo'd had the job? reckon that's
what yo' drivin' at, an tn amt no
sense takin' all this time 'xplainin'
of it."
9TH amt no 'casion TO- to git het
up" replied the old man sternly. Nor
amt went so fur Is to say what 1
cd a wrote the Scripters no better
n they was wrote fust off. They is
Bomepin' into 'em what reckon /
wouldn't "a been able to write as
good" he continued moderately, but
that amt TO say what can't see where
the mistakes is. Them patriots an
prophets what done wrote EN- sho'
was some edicated, but that amt to
Say what we uns don't know no bet
ter n them how things is ought to
- did now. Mebbe computation was
I c'ary afo' business was did scientific,
but evaporation is got it skinned a
mile these modern days"
Meaning OF "CWOpyratiOn."
What's cwopyration?" asked Sam
Pearsall, who had listened with more
Or less interest but without seeming
to catch the exact meaning of all that
the old man had said. Bassett had
made no pretense of listening, being
frankly contemptuous of what he con-
sidered the vagaries of the old mans
mind, but Bladsdell had paid close at
tention, and it was he who answered
Pearsall's question before the old man
had settled in his mind just what re-
ply to make.
IL sh'd say" said the most famous
short-card player Of his day, that
evaporation was somepin' like what
yo' all does occasional when Winter
bottom boosts a outsider what's done
bet on his hand, him havin' say afo'
It come to Jake. an yo' all not havin'
nothin' on'y the chanst o. playin' next.
Stands to reason tn amt no show
To- yo' all to rake in the pot yo' own
self, but just nachully yo'd a heap
druther see Jake win it nor yo' would
the outsider, an 20 mought be some
doubtful o. what the stranger helt, mo-
special If twas afo' the draw. | reckon
tn amt no question bout what yo' all
d be liable to do if me an Joe had
both passed out"
Sam Pearsall's System.
Goose they wouldn't" said Sam,
with some such indignation as the
crack speller in match might show
If the word cat was given to him to
spell. "If twas afo' the draw Id trail
along Just to see what the stranger'd
do. If he was to go back at Jake an
Jake sh'd weaken O co'se I'd have to
uEODI lOO, DlL IL JAKE udu EN- L stay
along an take hand in the raisin'
alter the draw. Mon likely wouldn't
take no mon one cyard in the draw"
well, that's what the old man
means when he speaks o. evaporation.
Means two playin together ag'n one.
Beats computation all to hell"
That's the idea" exclaimed old man
Greenlaw. gleefully. ~ couldn't 'xplain
1t no better my own self. knowcd a
man onc't-"
Now look hyar!" exclaimed Mr..
Pearsall suddenly. 81 amt gwine to
stand TO no mo- o. them Greenville
yarns. If yo' all can't find no other
place TO- people to come from yo'
needn't to tell EN-, not while I'm
round, yo' needn't. is done had my
feelin's harried enough already, 'thout-
en- havin' the hull population o. Green
lille rammed down my throat, one to
" time. l can't stand 1t an | won't
an that's all they is to it."
9TH amt no casion TO to git het
up like that" said the old man some
what Indignantly, though he tempered
his wrath, remembering Mr.. Pearsall's
domestic Affections. "Yo' all didn't
marry the hull town o. Greenville.
They was some thar what was"
L..