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And we'll dance some more by and by. The night's young yet. Go to it, old girl." He released his arm and thrust her playfully on the shoulder, at the same time turning to the poker-players. "Take off the limit and I'll go you-all." "Limit's the roof," said Jack Kearns. "Take off the roof." The players glanced at one another, and Kearns announced, "The roof's off."

I'm dreamin', Smoke, an' you're just snoopin' around in my dream an' tormentin' me with system. If you love me, if you sure do love me, you'll just yell, 'Shorty! Wake up! An' I'll wake up an' start breakfast." The third night of play, as Smoke laid his first bet, the game- keeper shoved fifteen dollars back to him. "Ten's all you can play," he said. "The limit's come down."

Only I'm a little shy of dust just at present. So, to oblige a friend, maybe you'll hand over, huh?" The captain reached into his pocket, extracted a two-dollar bill, and passed it to the speaker. Mr. Smith smiled and shook his head. "You can't come in on that, pard," he said. "The limit's five." Captain Cy took back the bill and exchanged it for one with a V in each corner.

But whenever a game gets immoderate that a-way, an' the limit's off, an' things is goin' that locoed they begins to play a thousand an' over on a kyard an' scream for action, gents of experience stands ready to go to duckin' lead an' dodgin' bullets instanter. "But to resoome: The Stingin' Lizard lines up his stuff, an' the deal begins.

"Well," says she, "we never played anything for pikers, did we, dad?" Then them two looked each other in the eyes. I looked at them both. To me it seemed there certainly was going to be some doings. "Go to it, sis!" says her pa. "You've got your own bank account and it's bigger than mine. The limit's the roof.

Anyhow, so long as he's a director, Horsfield must hold a stipulated amount of stock. He's actually holding a good deal." "The limit's rather a low one. Suppose he sold out down to it; he wouldn't mind having the value of the rest knocked down, if he could make more than the difference by some jobbery. Of course, we're only a small concern, and we'll have to raise more capital sooner or later.

But I tell you frankly, I can influence others to keep the secret after the time limit's up or I can refrain from using influence. Which shall it be? Is it peace or war between us?" I stopped to think for a moment, and then I answered, "It's an armed truce." We have all heard quite a lot about the mouse who saved a lion. But it was only one mouse out of a world crammed full of mice.

So it continyoos; an' Nell beats this Holliday hard for half a hour. Nell sees she's in luck; an' she feels that strong she concloods to press it some. "'The limit's five hundred! says Nell to this Holliday. 'Come after me! "Holliday bows like he's complimented. 'I'm after you; an' I comes a-runnin', he says.

You see," he continued, explanatory of his vivid memory, "he's gen'rally a piker plays a long shot an' his limit's twenty dollars; so, when he comes next a favorite that day with a cool thou' it give me stoppage of the heart. Damn'd if I didn't get cold feet. Bet yer life it wasn't Billy's money not a plunk of it; he had worked an angel, an' was playin' the farmer's stuff for him."

Uncle Jim gravely took a pill and swallowed it, and handed the box back to his partner. "We'll leave it on the table, sociable like, in case any of the boys come in," said Uncle Billy, taking up the cards. "Well. How do we stand?" Uncle Jim consulted the memorandum-book. "You were owin' me sixty-two thousand dollars on the last game, and the limit's seventy-five thousand!"