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He also frequently made himself one of the poker coterie, and relished keenly the stock jokes as to his grandson's proneness to lose. "Your pa," he would say, "never could learn to stay out of a Jack-pot unless he had Jacks or better; he'd come in and draw four cards to an ace any time, and then call it 'hard luck' when he didn't draw out.
He was a mere boy, with passionate aspirations to be considered a sport. He had been going a rapid gait for a year. He had lost to Scarborough alone as much as he had expected to spend on the year's education. Toward ten o'clock there was a jack-pot with forty-three dollars in it and Brigham was betting wildly, his hands and his voice trembling, his lips shriveled.
"Look at that crazy fool!" Pinkey ejaculated, aghast. "It's Canby!" Wallie exclaimed. "Nobody else! Watch him," incredulously, "tryin' to quirt his horse across the crick!" "Isn't it the ford?" "I should say not! It looks like the place but it ain't he's mixed he'll be in a jack-pot quick if he don't back out. Onct his horse stumbles it'll never git its feet in there."
He came in an' blurted out, right while we was boostin' up a jack-pot. "That'll do, me good man," sez I, "wait until this hand is played." Bill, he took off his hat an' stood humble until Artie had scooped in a hundred thousand dollars, an' then I told Bill he might talk. "The watchman was found froze to death, Mr.
He enjoyed its risks and ventured, on a trifling hand, to bluff the company and secure a fair stake. To his self-satisfaction intense and strong, he did it. In the height of this feeling he began to think his luck was with him. No one else had done so well. Now came another moderate hand, and again he tried to open the jack-pot on it.
"I see," says I. "Thirty-six holes a day, eh?" He nods. "And a jack-pot session with the old crowd every evening?" I asks. "Oh, only now and then," says he. "With a few late parties down in the grill?" I goes on. "Not a party," says Babe. "State's dry, you know. No, generally we went into the ballroom evenings and I helped Lucy try out the new steps she was learning."
Once in a while, when for hours no word had been spoken except some broken reference to a royal flush or a jack-pot, or O'Flynn had said, "Bedad! I'll go it alone," or Potts had inquired anxiously, "Got the joker?
So for about six days we devoted ourselves to studying how to get out of the "jack-pot" we had got into, without losing our stake. We were not kept very long in suspense, for early one beautiful April morning we learned the terrible news that Farragut's fleet had passed the forts, and General Butler with a large land force was marching on the city.
And it shall be a jack-pot, too, if I can manage it. He disappointed me, but let that pass." He was watching the bidding. At a thousand, the market broke: the prices tumbled swiftly. He waited and still watched. One competitor dropped out; then another, and another. He put in a bid or two now.
It was Dick's deal an' we all held three cards except Jabez who had furnished openers. He only wintered through a pair, but after he looked at his draw he settled back to enjoy himself. I held three kings an' a brace o trays. It looked to me as if that jack-pot belonged to Happy Hawkins. The peculiar expression had wore off Jabez' face, an' his eyes had a glad glint in 'em.
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