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He begged; I gave him one and made four. He dealt, and I made three on his deal, which put me out. He was as hot as a pepper pod, but he called for the wine. After we drank it, he said: "I wonder if you are that lucky at poker; if so, I will try you a little while." I said, "All right; I think, myself, I am in luck to-night." We went at it, but he said the limit must be $50.
"No, not much not yet but he's got temperament and refinement and a ten commandments' code of morals." "Rather rare, isn't it?" I asked. "Yes perhaps so." "And I suppose you are going to take him up and do for him, like the others." Peter picked up the poker and made a jab at the fire; then he answered slowly: "Well, Major, I can't tell yet not positively. But he's certainly worth saving."
Gilligan," she added, with a hysterical giggle, "has the broom and Laura has the poker." "Maybe we'd better stop on the way and gather up a few bedposts," suggested Ferd, as they took the last flight of stairs on a run and landed in the lower hall. "Hello, did you find anything?" sang out Chet, as the girls, looking scared but valiant, came out to meet them. "Where's Mrs. Gilligan?"
Don't let him run away." "I'll look out for that," said Mrs. Perkins, smiling. "Perhaps I had better leave you a pistol, my dear?" "I am afraid I should not know how to use it." "You might tie my hands," suggested Luke. "That wouldn't prevent your walking away." "Then my feet." "It won't be necessary, husband," said Mrs. Perkins. "I've got the poker and tongs ready."
True, no one had seen either Pete or Ropey Smith, but Lang said that they were upstairs playing poker, a favorite relaxation from the strain of their intellectual life.
"Now, then," said he of the red beard, "heat that poker in the fire." Peter quickly thrust the poker between the bars of the grate, in which the coals were red. "Stoi!" cried the man "Stop! They have gone to the old Château Ivanovitch." "If you're lying," said Andrieff, "we'll come back and cut you into ribbons for the dogs."
'You stood by me noble, and I'll do the same by you. He fumbled in his pocket. 'I've saved a complete equipment from the wreck, says he, and with that he hauls out a couple of decks of cards and a box of poker chips. 'All is lost save honor, Zeke," says he, 'but I reckon we can raise a dollar or two on that. "I was so moved in my feelin's I could only shake his manly hand.
Stella is a middle-aged, full-chested, kind of old-fashioned female who probably thinks a Bolshevik is a limb of the Old Boy himself and ought to be met with holy water in one hand and a red-hot poker in the other.
Time hung heavily upon him, and at night he joined the switchmen and certain young men of leisure in the town in a more or less friendly game of poker in the rooms at the head of the dark stairway on South Main Street. When spring came the young man had no desire and little need to go back to work, for by that time he was known as Lucky Red.
Sometimes it would be necessary to enlarge a crack or hole in a tough stump, to gain a hold for the fire. Norah always carried a light iron bar, specially made for her at the station forge, which she called her poker, and which answered half a dozen purposes equally well, and though not an ideal weapon for killing a snake, being too stiff and straight, had been known to act in that capacity also.
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