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Updated: June 9, 2025
Nothing doing in the ghost business, eh?" "Nothing," I answered, mournfully; "I couldn't coax a shiver." "A fire wouldn't do, would it?" Bunch suggested, thoughtfully. "It wouldn't do for you, unless you are aces with the insurance Indians," I answered. "We-o-o-u-w!" yelled Bunch, "I have it burglars!" "Burglars!" I repeated, mechanically. "Sure! it's a pipe!" Bunch went on with enthusiasm.
"But what in the name of common-sense," said Hart's aunt, "do you do with it with all those numbers around in circles, and that little ball?" Charley had himself in good shape by that time, and he put down his words as sure as if they was aces with more, if needed, up his sleeve. "It is used by our most advanced class in arithmetic, madam," he said.
"It was a fair fight," said the accused, not without some human vanity, feeling that the camp hung upon his words, "and was settled by the man az was peartest and liveliest with his weapon. We had a sort of unpleasantness over at Lagrange the night afore, along of our both hevin' a monotony of four aces.
One hand we had four jacks out against four aces, and right after that I held four kings against an ace full. Say, one time there I was about two-eighty to the good, but I didn't have enough sense to quit. Hear about Gus Giddings? They got him over in the coop for breaking in on a social out at the Oak Grove schoolhouse last night. Say, he had a peach on when he left here, I'll tell the world!
Those who become aces have no great faults; those with great faults become mere tallies for the aces.
When the cards are shuffled the aces protrude a trifle over the edges of the other cards. It is a simple matter for the dealer to draw or strip out as many aces as he wants, stack them on the bottom of the pack as he shuffles the cards, and draw them from the bottom whenever he wants them. Strippers are one of the newest things in swindling. Marked cards are out of date.
Du Sang made no reference to his gift horse and saddle, but spoke of the man that had held the target aces. "He must be a sucker!" declared Du Sang, with an oath. "I wouldn't do that for any man on top of ground. Who is he?" "That man?" wheezed Rebstock. "Never have no dealings with him. He plays 'most any kind of a game. He's always ready to play, and holds aces most of the time.
He slides around to the player facin' the dealer across the table. "'Say, he whispers, 'I seen the dealer deal hisself four aces. "'Well, an' what of it?" says the player. "'I'm tryin' to tell you-all because I thought you-all ought to know, says the tenderfoot. 'I tell you-all I seen him deal hisself four aces. "'Say, mister, says the player, 'you-all'd better get outa here.
""In a five-hand game, table stakes, what is a pair of aces worth before the draw?" is one of them questions that company asks. "Every chip you've got." ""That settles it, says the company; "we don't want no sech resk. Thar never is sech recklessness! You won't live a year; you're lucky to be alive right now." An' they declines to insure Steve.
"Have a drink, old man, to wake you up?" his neighbor said to him, about half-past two. "No, thanks," he answered, listlessly looking on at the cards. "A cigarette, then?" "No, thanks. I think I must give up smoking altogether my throat isn't quite right." But an extraordinary stroke of good-luck aroused him. On looking at his cards he found he had been dealt four aces and a ten.
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