Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1918-05-02


,,sntly crowded the proprietors of the
mia. aHorse" game get busy and, as they
'p''u .arm II '.form school," This consists
we of going around and selling cards al
LONG franc each. If they have ten In the
regO sobool the hackers of the game de-
u h, 5duct two francs for their trouble and
Mira. the winner gets eight francs.
Then the game starts. Each buyer
-,locos his card before him on the ia
V's ble first breaking up matches into tif-
teen pieces.
re One of the hackers of the game has
rider small cloth bag in which are ninety
'rCes cordboard squares, each with a num-
AIDE her nrinted thereon, from one to nine
THEN ~ He raps on the table and cries
ZONE Int; "Eyes down, my lucky lads
a. All noise ceases and every one is at
tentiOn.
lor The crOupier places his hand in the
% 70 nag and draws forth numbered
hese souare and Immediately calls out-the
ors humber. The man who owns the card
'au with that particular number on 1T,
70 covers the square with a match. The
pro one who covers the fifteen numbers on
'uei his card first shouts House" The
'ep. other hacker Immediately comes over
gua to him and verifies the card by calling
'ms out the numbers thereon to the man
O"' giwith the bag. AS each number is
called he picks it out of the ones
eOf1 picked from the bag and says, Right"
iOu' n the count is right he shouts, blouse
wy correct. pay the lucky gentleman, and
'aA sell him a card for the next school,"
"Du The "lucky gentleman" generally buys
oue unless he has q miser trace In
Wv his veins.
u"s Then another collection is made,
az school formed, and they carry on with
Wv the game.
A,l j The caller-Out has many nicknames
n,N Tor the numbers such as "Kelly's Eye"
Srs Tor one, Legs Eleven" for eleven,
'Clickety-click" for sixty-six, or "Top
of the house" meaning ninety.
Oos, The game is honest and quite en-
o,o jOyable. Sometimes you have fourteen
=, numbers on your card covered and
oas + you are waiting for the fifteenth to be
ont called. In an imploring voice you call
tbs but, "Come on, Watkins, chum, I'm
and Sweating on 'Kelly's Eye"
Watkins generally replies, swell,
orn keep out of draft, you'll catch cold"
hau Another game is 'Pontoon," played
nay with cards; it is the same as our
ers BLACK Jack" or ''Twenty-one"
xed card game called Drag" is also
per EpOpular. Using a casino deck, the
un' dealer deals each player three cards.
sF II is similar to our poker, except for
TO the fact that you only use three cards
lns and cannot draw. The deck Is never
10 shufled until a man shows three of
Seo kind or 'prile" as it Is called. The
o~ value of the hands are, high card,
ut pair, run, a flush or three of a kind
'u 0r "prile." The limit is generally a
u" penny, so 1t is hard to win fortune.
-, The next in popularity is a card
~ game called Nap" 1t is we'll named.
Every time played it l went to sleep.
"a Whist and solo whist are played by
al highbrows of the company.
cd 7n the gamblers tire of all other
Il ey try Banker and Broker"
r. spent a week trying to teach some
T. OF the Tommies how to play poker, but
D. because | won thirty-five francs they
at declared that they didn't ''fawncy' the
al game
he Tommy plays few card games; the
De general run never heard of poker. eu-
Of chre seven up, or pinochle. They have
b game similar to pinochle called
j. royal Bezique," but few know how to
at play it.
Generally there are two decks of
u cards IN section and in short time
y 'ney are 80 dog-eared and greasy, you
eah hardly tell the ace of spades from
, he ace of hearts. The owners of these
uecKs sometimes condescend to lend
y 'hen after much coaxing.
30 you see Mr. Atkins has his fun
mixed In with his hardships and, con-
nary TO popular belief, the rank and
'e OF the British army in the trenches
, . one hig happy family. Now in Vir-
snla' at school, l was fed on old Nc
uuiys primary reader, which gave me
1n opinion of an Englishman about
qual to '76 Minute Mans backed up
" Sim Feiner's But found Tom
, s 10 De the best of mates and a gen.
s'nah through and through. He never
MINIS OF knocking his officers. If one
"Aes costly mistake and Tommy
WIN his blood, there is no gen.
condemnation of the officer He
just plued. 1t is exactly the same
pa,l was with the Light Brigade at
Na'aciava' to say nothing of Gallipoli,
1--WE Chapelle and Loos. Personally
'eineinoer little incident where
ro,a OF us were sent on a trench
r,n 1' only two of us returning but /
III tell this story later on.
80 =, sa,u It was big happy family, and
&c in, oil
"ere are servants. so in the British
nny there are also servants, officers
ants or 20. s." as they are termed.
~ the American army the common