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I've done set an' see him give away his hand in a jack-pot for two hundred dollars to some gent 'cross the table who's organizin' to go ag'in him an' can't afford to lose. An' you can onderscore it; a winnin' poker hand, an' him holdin' it, is the last thing a thoroughbred kyard-sharp'll give away.
And now, as casually as he had ever raked in a jack-pot from the bewildered sophomores, he had bought the Starkweather business, and not on a shoestring, either, as Mirabelle had suspected. He had roomed with Henry at college; he had been his inseparable companion, out of office hours, ever since; he knew him too well to proffer any trite condolence.
"Suit me," said Dunwody briefly; they nodded assent all around, but the younger man ventured: "Suppose I sit with you for one jack-pot, gentlemen. The hour is growing late for me, and I must plead other duties. When a man is both busy and broke, it is time for him to consider." "No, no," expostulated the Honorable William Jones, who long since had forgotten his rule regarding one drink a day.
And, still chuckling, he began sorting the chips into patriotic piles. "Enjoy yourselves," granted Washer, concealing his intense chagrin with as nonchalant an air as possible. "I give you my word those chips are only loaned. Go on and laugh! You fellows make a lot of fuss over a cheap little jack-pot. Johnny, must you see us Monday?"
It is equally true that on some islands, such as Malaita, the profit and loss account of social intercourse is calculated in homicides. Heads are a medium of exchange, and white heads are extremely valuable. Very often a dozen villages make a jack-pot, which they fatten moon by moon, against the time when some brave warrior presents a white man's head, fresh and gory, and claims the pot.
The drone of the fleeing super-planes diminished and was gone, and for a time the thrum of the generator and the tap-dance of relays adjusting circuits was the only sound aboard. Wade sighed finally. "Well, gentlemen, now we've got it, what do we do with it?" "What do you mean?" Morey asked. "Victory. The Jack-pot.
This hero business, for a starter what about it? I thought it was an English duke that chartered the steamer to rescue Genevieve." "No, only the son of a duke, James Scarbridge, the Right Honorable the Earl of Avondale." "My ante!" "It's in the jack-pot, and as good as lost. What chance have you now to win Genevieve, with a real earl and a real hero in the field?" "Earl and hero?
He wrote out a list of the "hands" for Bok's guidance, which was placed in the centre of the table, and the party, augmented by the women, gathered to see the game. A baby had been born that evening in the steerage, and it was decided to inaugurate a small "jack-pot" for the benefit of the mother.
Its passengers, the bishop, the Indian agent, and the doctor, after ministering to the tribe in their several ways, had ridden north to visit the people around Tepiskow Lake. The Fish-Eaters were still in a state of considerable excitement. The Government annuities five dollars a head changed hands half a dozen times daily in the hazards of jack-pot. All other business was suspended.
"I want you to understand," the Cap'n shouted back with just as much vigor "it ain't any jack-pot, nor table-stakes, nor prize put up for a raffle. It's town money, and I'm runnin' this town." "Do you think you're an Emp'ror Nero?" inquired Hiram, sarcastically. "And even that old cuss wa'n't so skin-tight as you be. He provided sports for the people, and it helped him hold his job.
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