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Updated: May 29, 2025
The hand was dealt, and the money-lender won with three aces, all of which he had drawn in a five-card draw. He had discarded a pair of nines to make the heavy draw. It was clumsy, but he had been forced to it. The position of the aces in the pack he had known, and well, he meant to win. Five two. The clumsiness of that deal was too palpable. Old John suspected, but held his tongue.
"There was more than fifty people waiting outside the iron fence that surrounded the house and grounds. There was generals and agitators and epergnes in gold-laced uniforms, and citizens in diamonds and Panama hats all waiting to get an audience with the Royal Five-Card Draw.
Suddenly Johnson, scrutinizing a hand dealt him by the cigar salesman, emitted a low whistle. "If we were playing poker now I'd have something to say!" "Oh, I don't know! I've got some poker hand myself," opined the dealer. "Discard one, to make a five-card hand, and I bet you five dollars I beat you." "You're on!" Each produced a bill which he handed to the athletic young man to hold.
Now you shut up whilst I go on with your sad history. Son, you was afflicted some with five-card insomnia and right off, when you first came, you had it fair shoved on you by people usually most disobligin'. It wasn't just for your money; there was plenty could stack 'em higher than you could, and them fairly achin' to be fleeced, at that.
The winner of to-day, broke to-morrow, on the day following might be riding his luck to royal flushes on five-card draws. "So they gobbled and gambled from the Atlantic to the Pacific, until they'd swined a whole continent.
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