Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-10-22

up the jcdGe ID been nvln' on borrowed
money 80 long what his credit WAS
nigh bout Exhausted.
Mon likely he'd Il been d'sGraced IL
he'd II lived Il spell longer. but as twas
they couldn't nobody say nothin' agln
him. An he was that high speritcd AN
hotty up to the day of his death what
they couldn't be no mistake about him
bein' reel Southern gcmman.
They done give him IL funeral fttin'
70 u man q his p'sition in s'ciety, an
the ondcrtakers bill want never paid.
long o they beiH nothin but debts
70 the widdcr after the moggiscs WAS
fo'clOScd. But they couldn't nobody SAY
nothin' agin the jcdge. He was always
Il gemman while he lived. am he done
died an got buried like gcmman, an
the Disgrace all come onto Billy an the
widdcr.
''Sho was rough on Billy. Ecin'
quality he couldn'i he Xpcctcd TO- TO
how to play poker like his pa ID ought
70 to did. they didn't peer 10 be
nothin' To- him to do, on'y keep On
Twin on credit like his pa done. an
they was c'nsid'ablc difficulty bout that
him not havin' 'Xpericucc into it like
his pa had.
81 was kecpiu' bar to the tavern
them days an dom to'able well. 1t
was Just afo' brought out the p'pictor,
an just nachully Billy done told his
troubles to me. o co'Se ] couldn't give
him no money. they not bein' no pros
pect q gettin il back, but done bet
ter ] give him 'dvicc.
First off | done told him what they
want nothin' To- him TO do on'y 70 to
improve hissclf.
"'Yo' all wont never be no good /
says. 'thoutcn yo' git so so en- swat
them what's done been swattin' 90 all
so long into the game.
IF that want shown sympathy TO
| n loser l dunno what sympathy is
INTERESTED IN STORY
or billy WRITER'S
Here the old man paused In his story
and looked inuuirinSly at Blaisdell.
and that gentleman was forced to &C
knowledge that maybe he had been
too harsh in what he had said. He
ton whether Billy Withers had prof
tied By the advice that was given to
him in his extremity.
Pears he was big winner into
the game one night. an done c'nsid' :
able cclebratin' when the scttin' broke
| up. Consequent he want 'ntirely GER
tain o what was did later on. but he
knowed he had his wad in his jeans
when him an Billy Withcrs done lcf
the place together.
Then he didn't know nothin' mo-
! till next mawnin'. but when he woken
| up lie didn't had no wad I must a
! left It somc'rcs.' he says. AN l reckon
! that WAS what somebody done left 20
We'll. spealtin candid" said the old
man. "he didn't pear to git no good
| outcn it first off. Just nachully he
couldn't play poker. not havin' no
money. an they want no way o. him
| g!ttin no money, beins he couldn't
! play poker Bein gemman, they
| want noth!n' 70 him to do ony set
round the tavern an walt 70 so'ncpin'
! to turn up. but I will say 70 him
! what hc done that faithful.
Mon that he done set out TO TO
I improve hisscli like told him he'd
! ought. o. co'se he couldn't set In when
! they was game on. but they didn't
| nobody make no ELECTIONS to him look
| in on. an he al'ays done that.
/ "Now they is them wha; en- set an
/ look on frcver AN not git no good
outen 1t. Tn ain't uothin' but actual
Xpcr:ncc don't never learn 'cm moth
! in. But they's others what learns a
[ heap p'vidin' they knows enough 70
! 70 understand the fine p'ints o the
| game AN has the makin's OF n player
into EN-.
| Right thar was whar silly Wither.
! done proved what he was reel quality
! Dut just htcHuilE they didn't nobody
/ rcelizc ii till later on. All they seen
/ was what he was settin thar muslin
! hisself scein' who win an who lose in
I the game. 'thouten takin' no part into
| IL his own self.
What he was RELY dom was edi-
catin' hisseif an havn' the makins OF
! q player into him he done II remark
able we'll. Twan't a hcllova while
/ afo' he knowed s much o the science
/ % the game as anybody in Grcenville
! knowcd them days. That want moth
in to brag about. but 1t were enough
| TO TO qualify Billy Wiihers 70 TO set
| into the game on'y 70 him not havin'
! no money to play with.
! but as the Good Book says. all
! things comes 10 him what sets an
waits. an one night Billy showed UP
| with wad. They didn't nobody had
| no idcc ~ the time how come he got
H. an all's he said was what he's done
| had money left 10 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 IL. h.
I'm that time OH Billy Withers
! done tol'ablc we'll winnin' considerable
| mo- n he done lose, an stirkin' to the
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