Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1918-05-10

numbers on your card covered ana |
you are waiting for the fifteenth TO be
called. In an implorlng voice you call
out, r,Come on. Watkins, chum, rm
sweating ON 'Kelly's Eye"
Watkins generally replies, "Wel.
keep out Of a draft, you'll catch cold"
Another ganle isy"Pontoon.9 played
with cards, II ls the same as our
"Black Jack" or srwenty'one,"
A card game called "Brag" Is also
popular. Using a 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
shuiiied until man shows three OF a
kind or u "prile" as Il Is called. The
value Of the hands are, high card.
pair, u run, u flush or three OF kind
or "prlle." The limit IL generally
penny. no Il Is hard 10 win fortune.
The next In popularity Is q card
game called "Na,,." II Is well named.
Every time played Il ! went TO sleep,
Whist and solo whist are played by
the highbrows Of the company.
When the gamblers tire OF all other
games they try Banker and Broker"
I spent a week trying TO teach some
Of the Tommies how to play poker. tut
because I won thlrty.five francs they
declared that they didn't "fawhcy" the
game.
Tommy plays few card games; the
general run never heard OF poker. Gu.
chre. seven up. or pinochlc. They have
game similar 20 pinochle called
Royal Bezique." but few know how TO
play II.
Generally there are two decks OF
cards in section. and In short time
they are 30 dog.eared and greasy. you
can hardly tell the ace OF spades from
the ace Of hearts. The owners Of these
decks sometimes condesccnd to lend
them after much coaxlng.
So you see. Mr.. Atkins has his fuu
mixed In with his hardshlps and. con.
trary TO popular belief the rank and
nle of the British army In the trenches
Is one big happy family. Now In Vlr-
ginia. at school, l was fed on old Nc
Guffy's primary reader. which gave ne
an opinion of an Engl!shman about
equal TO 70 Minute Mans backed up
by Sim Feiner's. But found Tom
my to be the best OF mates and gem
tleman through and through. He never
thinks of knocking his officers. II one
makes costly mistake and Tommy
pays with his blood. there Is no gen.
eral condemnation OF the officer. He
Is Just pitied. II Is exactly the same
rs Il was with the Light Brigade at
Balaclava, TO say nothing of Galllpoll.
Neuve Chapelle and Loos. Personally
remember q little incident where
twenty or US were sent on trench
raid. only two Of us returning. but
will tell this story later on.
I said II was q big happy family, and
so II is. but as In all happy families,
there are servants, so In the British
army there are also servants. officers
servants, or 20. s." as they are termed
In the American army the common
name for them Is dog robbers" From
a controversy in the English papers.
Winston, Churchill made the state.
ment. as far as can remember. that
the officers servants In the British
forces totaled nearly two hundred
thousand. He claimed that this re.
moved two hundred thousand excep-
tlonally good and well.tralned 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 l find that
large percentage OF the servants do
90 over the top, but behind the lines
they very seldom engage In digging
parties, fatIgues, parades or drills.
This work IL as necessary as actually
engaging In an attack, therefore think
1t 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-corpo.
rails and they assume the same duties
and authority Of butler, the one
stripe giving him precedence over the
other servants.
There are lots Of amusing stories
told of 10. s."
One day ono Of our majors went Into
the servants billet and commenced
"bllndlng" at them, saying that his
horse had no o'straw and that he per;
sonally knew that straw had been, Isl
sued for this purpose, He called the
lance-corporal to account. The cor
poral answered, "Blime me, sir, the
straw was issued, but there wasn't
enough left over from the servants
beds; in fact. we had to use some of
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