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All of a suddent, with no more warnin' than a streak of lightnin', she burst out cryin'. 'Oh, oh, oh! says she, 'how I have been deceived in men! Then to relieve her feelin's she got to work with both hands. "There was a genuine Sand-hill cloudburst of hair-brushes and combs, porous plasters, tooth-powder, tooth-brushes, pomade, soap, Jew's-harps, playin'-cards and the old Boy knows what all.
The idee was to put a little box full of playin'-cards on the table, and draw them forth one at a time, to see just how they'd fall. Some of the students got that interested they bet on the results." "Oh!" said Charley, "I took a course in that one winter myself. Did you always draw one card at a time out'n that box, Zeke?" "So help me, Bob! I did," returned Mr. Scraggs most earnestly.
It's easy enough, our language, she'd p'int out, 'but most o' you two-legged critters don't seem to get us. It's right funny! You appear to get 'most everything else houses, and land, and playin'-cards, and sich. But you don't never seem to get us that is, most o' you! Why, 'tain't nothin' but sign language, neither same as Injuns talkin' to whites.
I gradual come to particulars, and producin' a pack of playin'-cards, proceeded to show Percival how odd five of 'em dealt at a time would come out. He was interested, and I suggested that he sh'd take five, too, and he did; and the first thing you know I had everything that Percival owned, owin' to his misjudging the way them cards would fall. Then we divided again and went at it.
"He laid down one thousand dollars' worth of Government promises, and I took a long breath, drew forth, first trey, next queen, removed his money from the table with a light, sure touch, threw the layout in the stove, blew out the lamp, remarked that the bank was closed, and stood prepared to deal in chemicals instead of playin'-cards. "Simpson was surprised.
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