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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Most of 'em you obey to the last curl on the letter R, and do it with a jump. Some of 'em you obey only when you have to, and take your chances at improving the State o' Tennessee by buildin' roads and diggin' up stumps in the parade ground if you're ketched not mindin'. Of them kind is the orders agin gamblin'." "Shorty, stop talkin' to the boys about gamblin'. I won't have it," commanded Si.
"No, Nick was innercent that time," returned Isa. "Nick's been keepin' on the straight trail since that occasion when you'd a talk with him, I'm told, however, that he's broken out again gamblin', drinkin', an' cavortin' around with the old gang." "Which reminds me," said Abe Harum.
He had had a quarrel with the banks, an' couldn't raise a penny, an' he had lost ten thousand dollars the night before, gamblin'. He said it would take forty dollars for him to go to Los Angeles, where he had friends who would lend him any amount. Otherwise they would foreclose the little mortgage he had on the business block.
We've been gamblin'. D'ye know what he had the gall to say to me? that they was all ourn at ten dollars a egg. D'ye know what he was doin' when I left his cabin? drawin' a sign of eggs for sale. Said he'd give us first choice, at ten a throw, till 2 P. M., an' after that, if we didn't come across, he'd bust the market higher'n a kite.
"For a feller that c'd move so quick he was s'prisin' lazy; so lazy he'd trip over his feet gettin' out o' his own way. An' drinkin', an' gamblin'! say, I won't take your time tellin' you all th' things he liked. All you had t' do was t' ast yourself was a thing wrong. If it was, Sam liked it. "Bein' a champeen, o' course Sam had a manager what made money out o' Sam's stunts, for both o' 'em.
"Bosh! Look at me," rejoined Sibley. "Drink women nit! Not for me! I've got no vice. I don't even smoke." "No vice? Begobs, yours has got you like a tire on a wheel! Vice what do you call gamblin'? It's the biggest vice ever tuk grip of a man. It's like a fever, and it's got you, John, like the nail on your finger." "Well, p'r'aps, he's got that vice too.
If you happen to have grapes or oranges, if they manage to escape the frost, an' hail, an' caterpillar, then the blight ketches 'em, or there's a drewth, and there ain't none; an' if there's any, there's so much that there ain't no sale for 'em; and the farmer's life I reckon ought to be stopped as gamblin', for a gambler's life ain't one bit more precarious."
Why, most likely he'd a settled down in San Francisco he'd a-had to an' held onto them three Market street lots, an' bought more lots, of course, an' gone into steamboat companies, an' stock gamblin', an' railroad buildin', an' Comstock-tunnelin'. "Why, he'd a-become big business himself. I know 'm.
"If they'd only fetch us them things an' let alone tracts, Bibles, an' religion," returned Stubley, "I'd have no objection to 'em, but what's the use o' religion to a drinkin', swearin', gamblin' lot like us?" "It's quite clear that your notions about religion are muddled," said David Duffy, with a short laugh. "Why, what's the use o' physic to a sick man, Stubs?"
Carlisle lives there when he ain't out in the hills or on a gamblin' trip to some other town." "I see. Well, old-timer, I ain't hung on the feed bag since morning, an' I'm going on a still hunt for some grub." Rathburn went to the Red Feather for his dinner. He was thoughtful through the meal and kept an eye out for Carlisle, but didn't see him.
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