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Of evenings they sit at little tables along the sidewalk and drink beer and play pinochle and scat. They are very thrifty people. Thriftiest among them was Peter Hildesmuller, Lena's father. And that is why Lena was sent to work in the hotel at the quarries, thirty miles away. She earned three dollars every week there, and Peter added her wages to his well-guarded store.
"Perhaps" may have been a good horse but he had a bad memory and never could recollect which end of the track was the proper place to finish. Joe must have left for Elmhurst immediately after the race because he failed to answer roll call. Then we ran across Dave Torrence, the famous inventor of the disappearing trump so much used by pinochle players.
Dave Cowan greeted the company and seated himself at a vacant table. "Pull up a chair, Buzzer, and we'll drink to the life force old electricity or something." "Yes, sir," said Wilbur, and seated himself. Minna left the pinochle game to attend upon them. She was plump and pink-faced, with thick yellow hair neatly done. A broad white apron protected her dress of light blue.
Pasinsky sits there with two nines of trump in his hand and don't lead 'em through me. You could have beat me by a million very easy." He waved his hand with the palm outward and flapped his four fingers derisively. "You call yourself a pinochle player!" he jeered, and fell to twisting his huge red mustache with his fingers.
Rapp, Senior, said that was all very well, but these pacifists would keep us out of war yet. Doctor Purdy, with whom he had finished a game of pinochle Herman Vielhaber had lately been unable to keep his mind on the game set down his beer stein in an authoritative manner, having exploded with rage even while he swallowed some of the last decent beer to come to Newbern Center.
Ford was not worrying about Sunset half as much as Sunset was worrying about him. He was at that moment playing pinochle half-heartedly with a hospitable sheep-herder, under the impression that, since his host had frankly and profanely professed a revulsion against solitaire and a corresponding hunger for pinochle, his duty as a guest lay in satisfying that hunger.
And instead of making notes I examined my new six-guinea silk rubber rain cape for barbed-wire tears. Not a shell came near. The German battery across had ceased firing at dusk that evening, and was playing pinochle four hundred yards away across the inundation. The snipers were writing letters home.
Ford suddenly hungered for the man's hearty voice, where kindly humor lurked always, and for a grip of his hand. It was like him to forget all about the herder and the promise of pinochle that night.
God knows where it came from in that backyard of a country it was a bouquet of soaked lemon peel, cigar stumps, and stale beer exactly the smell of Goldbrick Charley's place on Fourteenth Street where I used to play pinochle of afternoons with the third-rate actors. And that smell drove my troubles through me and clinched 'em at the back.
For it seems that to each of them, trained and skilled as he may be, the same occurrence presents a different facet of the cut diamond, life. My second "chiel" will take notes to the effect that while a friendly game of pinochle was in progress in the tenement rooms of Mrs.
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