The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1918-02-23

II The count is right lie shouts, "HuuSeI
correct, pay the lucky gentleman, and
sell him card for the next School."
The lucky gentleman" generally buys
one unless he has miser trace in
his veins.
Then another collection is made. al
school formed, and they carry on with
the game.
The callerout has MANY nickEHncsl
for the numbers such as "Kelly's Eye'l
for one, Legs Eleven For cRNen.
"Cllckety-cIick" for siXty-siX. or {'e,Top
Of the house meaning ninety.
The game is honest and quite. en-
joyable. Sometimes you have fourteen
numbers on your card covered audi
YOU are waiting for the fifteenth to bo
called In an mploring voice you call
out Come on, Watkins chum, I'm
sweating on Kellys Eye"
Watkins generally replies, "Wen,l
Keep out of a draft, you'll catch cold"
Another game is "Pontoon,' played
with cards; it is the same as our
"Black Jack. or "TWenty-one."
A card game called "Brag' IS also
popular. Using casino deck, the
dealer deals each player three cards,
Ii Is similar to our poker, except for
the fact that you only use three cards
and cannot draw. The deck is never
shuilled until man shows three of a
kind or prize as it is called. The
value of the hands are high card,
pair, run, Il flush or three of Il kind
or "prile.' The limit is generally O
penny SO it is hard to win fortune
The next in popularity is care
game called Nap" 1t is well named
Every time PLAYED it went to sleep
Whist and solo whist are played b!
the highhrOWS OF the company.
When the gamblers lire of all othe
games they try Banker ami Broker
7 spent a week trying to teach some
of the TommicS how to play poker, hut
because | won thirty-fivc francs they
declared that they didn't "fawncy" the
game.
Tommy plays few. card games; the
general run never heard Of poker. cu-
chrc, seven UP, or puochle They have
game similar to pinoche called
"RoyaI Bezique,' but few know how TO
play it,
Generally there are two decks of
cards in a section, and in Il short timel
they are SO dog-eared and greasy, you
can hardly tell the ace of spades front
the ace Of hearts. The owners of these
docks sometimes condeScend to lend
them after much coaxing.
So You sec. Mr. Atkins has his fun
mixed in with Ills hardshpS and, con
trary to popular belief, the rank and
file of the British army in the trenches
is one big happy family, Now in Nir-
glna, at school, | was fed ON old Nc
Guffy's primary reader, which gave me
an opinion of an Engishman about
equal to Il '7G Minute Mans backed up
by a Sim Foincrs But found Tom.
my To be the best of mates and IL gem
tlcman through and through. He never
thinks of Knocking his officers. If one
mtkcs costly mistake and Tommy
pays with his blood, there is no gen
cral condemnation Of the officer. He
Is just ptcd. II is exactly the same
as ii was with the Light Brigade at
Iaaclavl, to say nothing of, Gallipoli,
Neuve Chapellc and Loos. Personally
] remember a little incident where
twenty Of Us We're sent on n trench
rald, only two of us returning. but ]
Will tell This story later ON.
said ii was biz AaplJ family. and
so 1t is, but as in all happy families.
there are servants. SO in the British
army there are also servants, officers
servants, or 80. $. us they arc termed
In the American army The common
name for them is dog robbers" From
controversy in the English papers,
Winston Churchill made the state.
ment as far as can remeWber, that
the officers servants in the British
forces tolaled nearly two hundred
thousand. He claimed that this re.
movcd two hundred thousand exccp.
lionally good and Well-traincd fighters
from the actual firing line, claiming
that the officers, when Selecting man
for servants duty, generally picked the
man who had been out the longest and
knew the ropes.
But from my observation | find that
Il large percentage of the servants do
20 over the top, but behind the lines
they very seldom engage in digging
parties, fatigueS, paradeS or drills.
This work is as necessary rs actually
engagln" in an attack, therefore think
ii would be safe to say that the ALL
round work of the two hundred thou
sand is about equal to fifty thousand
men who are on straight military du-
ties, In numerous Instances, officers
servants hold the rank of lance-corp0-
rails and they assume the same duties
and authority Of a butler, the one
stripe giving him precedence over the
other servants.
There are lots of amusing stories
told Of 90 s.
CONTINUED TOMORROW