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For the rest, they sat by the fire playing endless games of euchre, seven-up and bean poker, while Mac, more silent than ever, smoked and read Copps's "Mining Laws" and the magazines of the previous August. Nobody heard much in those days of Caribou. The Colonel had gradually slipped into the position of Boss of the camp.
"But I can't have my little niece laid up again just as she is on the mend: Annie, come in." The girl obeyed reluctantly. The old lady rose too. "Ah, Mother, you are wise," said the bald man; "and a game at euchre is safer than poetizing in night air." He wound his arm round the old lady with a careful fondness, for she moved with some difficulty as if rather lame.
Gosh, wasn't the minister mad! He had started to read a hymn and he quit after he read two lines where it said, 'In a game of four-handed euchre, never trump your partner's ace, but rely on the ace to take the trick on suit. Pa was trying to explain how the book came to be there, when the minister and the deacons started out, and then I poured the two quart tin pail full of soft soap on the front step.
"Maybe so," she replied, with visible effort at self-control. Manifestly she had a great fear of Bland. "If I could only think!" Then she dragged Duane to the door, pushed him in. "Euchre, come out with me! Duane, you stay with the girl! I'll tell Bland you're in love with her. Jen, if you give us away I'll wring your neck." The swift action and fierce whisper told Duane that Mrs.
Wanted to euchre her out of the twenty thousand life insurance she got when Benny took the booze count last winter, eh? Well, it happens she's a friend of Mrs. McCabe, and it was through me your little scheme was blocked. Now I guess we ought to be real well acquainted." But I might have known such crude stuff wouldn't get under the hide of a polished article like J. Bayard.
I've got a near relative that's come into a fortune. Now I think I ought to come in for a share." "To be sure!" "Have another game of euchre, Dick?" "I don't know I ought to be going," said the kidnapper, hesitating. "We'll make it poker, and the boy may take a hand." "No," said Jasper, languidly. "I don't know how to play." "We'll teach you." "I don't care about it."
"Wal," replied Euchre, dryly, "he's been quicker on the draw than the other fellers who hankered to kill him, thet's all." Euchre's reply rather chilled Duane's interest for the moment. Such remarks always made his mind revolve round facts pertaining to himself. "Speakin' of this here swift wrist game," went on Euchre, "there's been considerable talk in camp about your throwin' of a gun.
Kent looked on at euchre awhile, then listened to us awhile, then walked about uneasy. By and by says Bob, "Look over there, spry!" and there was Kent, sitting curled away in a heap under the stern of the long-boat. He had a book. Bob crawls behind and snatches it up, unbeknown, out of his hands; then he falls to laughing as if he would strangle, and gives the book a toss to me.
I asked him if he would play euchre to pass the time, and he said he would. We then sat down and began a game for the drinks. Once in a while the old fellow would say something about poker hands, so I finally ran him up the old chestnut of four queens and an ace, giving Tripp four kings, and taking nothing myself. I came the old spit racket, and exposed my hand.
They had also set habits even in their improvidence, lost incalculable and unpayable sums to each other over euchre regularly every evening, and inspected their sluice-boxes punctually every Saturday for repairs which they never made.
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