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Jed's a mighty slick hand with the pasteboards, but he meets his boss in your Uncle Ephraim. I didn't learn to play eucher in the hay lofts o' Bean Blossom Crick for nothin', I kin tell you."
"Must be a stranger in these parts, then," said Marcom. "Most everybody knows Tom Blair." He paused to give an all-including glance. "At least well enough to get a slice of his dough," he finished with a sarcastic laugh. "Does he handle the pasteboards?" asked Buck, with interest. "Tries to," contemptuously. The curiosity of the youthful Bud was now thoroughly aroused.
There was one who was hit hardest of all, a youth of pleasing appearance who drew several pasteboards from his pocket and scowled at them for a moment before he ripped them to bits and hurled the fragments into the air. "Cleaned out! Busted!" ejaculated the Bald-faced Kid bitterly. "The old scoundrel double-crossed me!"
Yet there it was his Colt's, out, cocked, wicked and yearning and ready. He whirled it with tempting carelessness, butt first, muzzle first, his discolored teeth set in a yellow grin. The breath of the spectators vented in a sigh. "Haow'll yu take it, Mister?" he gibed. "I could l'arn an old caow to beat yu on the draw. Aw, shucks! I 'laow yu'd better go back to yore pasteboards. Naow git!"
He made an englyn for me to put in a book in which I was inserting all the verses I could collect: "'Tom Evans' the lad for hunting up songs, Tom Evans to whom the best learning belongs; Betwixt his two pasteboards he verses has got, Sufficient to fill the whole country, I wot.
They found their way to the Tudor Room, where a small number of men, mostly barricaded behind newspapers, ate briskly. A captain showed the Thropps to a table; three waiters pulled out their chairs and pushed them in under them. Another laid large pasteboards before them. Another planted ice-water and butter and salt and pepper here and there.
There are also antique pasteboards and rolling-pins for rolling shortbread, pot stirrers of wood, and other utensils such as sand glasses. In Figs. 47 and 48 we illustrate two wooden food boxes, such as were formerly used to carry food to men working in the field. Warming Pans.
"You go into the bedroom, Charley, and shut the door, and then you won't be bothered by the racket." No. 3. "Oh, hang the Puckle! Come and take a hand, Charley. We'll let you in this pool without an ante." No. 4. "Why don't you get a new pack of cards, Charley? It's a disgrace to you to keep such a dirty lot of old pasteboards for your friends."
He recognised the Chevalier's genius in the magnificence before him. "Lady Clavering is going out for her drive," the Major said. "We shall only have to leave our pasteboards, Arthur." He used the word 'pasteboards, having heard it from some of the ingenuous youth of the nobility about town, and as a modern phrase suited to Pen's tender years.
The queen that was, after all. The gambler darkened, gathering the pasteboards. "We can't both win, gentlemen," he said, tone passionless. "But I am willing to give you one more chance, from a new deck." What the response was I did not know, nor care.
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