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Updated: June 6, 2025
On goes the game, the burly "tough" winning all the time, his pile of tens steadily increasing in hight. "Talk about Joner an' the ark, an' Noar an' ther whale!" he cries, slapping another X onto the pile with great enthusiasm; "I hed a grate, grate muther-in-law w'at played keerds wi' Noar inside o' thet eyedentical whale's stummick played poker wi' w'alebones fer pokers.
Meanderin' round her grave on the hill, yander, in course." "It's suthin bigger nor thet, pard," said Dick confidently; "no ghost kin rake down the pot ag'in the keerds I've got here. This ain't no bluff!" "Well, go on!" said a dozen excited voices. Dick paused a moment, diffidently, with the hesitation of an artistic raconteur. "Well," he said, with affected deliberation, "let's see!
I'll allow ez you've settled all the preliminaries and bought her the ring and sich; I'm only askin' you now, kalkilatin' you've got all the keerds in your own hand, what you'll take to step out and leave the board?"
I'll allow ez you've settled all the preliminaries and bought her the ring and sich; I'm only askin' you now, kalkilatin you've got all the keerds in your own hand, what you'll take to step out and leave the board?"
"I hope so," said Mrs. Kimper, releasing herself from her husband's arms and taking up the cards again. "I was just tellin' my fortune by the keerds, havin' nothin' else to do, an' they showed a new man an' some money, though not much." "They showed right both times, though keerds ain't been friends to this family, confound 'em, when I've fooled with 'em at the saloon.
"Every keerd's thar thet I hed in my hands, ef you mean me," said the Kentuckian, sharply. "Waal, I don't mean you. A feller may have his little joke, I suppose." "Depends on the kind o' jokes. Here's the two missin' keerds on the floor. Now, ef you say I put 'em thar, it's a little joke I reckon I won't stand. Sabe?" "Come, I'll pay for the drinks, old fel', if you'll allow me to apologize.
"Look yer, old man," he said, "every gal stakes her WHOLE pile, you can bet your life on that, whatever's her little game. If she took to keerds instead of her feelings, if she'd put up 'chips' instead o' body and soul, she'd bust every bank 'twixt this and 'Frisco! You hear me?" Somewhat of this idea was conveyed, I fear not quite as sentimentally, to Peggy Moffat herself.
"Why, after we had got to going we'd send a feller, and I know one who would do first rate, to the United States, and after playing our keerds putty well, we'd agree to annex Australia to the United States, and we'd do it, too, by thunder."
"Look yer, old man," he said, "every gal stakes her whole pile you can bet your life on that whatever's her little game. If she took to keerds instead of her feelings, if she'd put up chips instead o' body and soul, she'd burst every bank 'twixt this and 'Frisco! You hear me?" Somewhat of this idea was conveyed, I fear not quite as sentimentally, to Peggy Moffat herself.
"Well," sighed a discontented miner from New Jersey, "Providence knows His own bizness best, I s'pose; but I could have found him a feller that could have made a darn sight better use of his good luck ef he'd had any than Tom Chafflin. He don't know nothin' 'bout the worth of money never seed him drunk in my life, an' he don't seem to get no fun out of keerds."
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