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Updated: June 4, 2025
First thing I knew, though, Piddie was havin' star-chamber sessions with a seedy-lookin' piker that wore an actor's overcoat and a brunette collar that looked like it had been wished onto his neck about last Thanksgivin'. They'd get together in a corner of the reception room and whisper away for half an hour on a stretch.
About half-past ten Piker had to dig up some more funds, an' he sez, "It's gettin' kind o' late, boys, let's raise the edge a bit. Hawkins there has had all the luck so far, an' when it changes we ought to have a show to get back our riskin's." "All right," sez Jabez, "we'll double." "The stakes suit me all right," sez Dick. "In fact, I'd ruther split 'em."
Percy M. Piker was riding homeward with his Head out of a Trolley Window, he recalled dimly that a large number of long-legged Ponies came out on the Track. One of them was the color of an Old Glove and was doing a Two-Step. There was about twenty minutes of Fussing around at the Bend in the Track and then they all kited away like a flight of Swallows and there was one Horse in front and Mr.
Of outward praying I had done none. I thought about it and wondered. To pray now no, that was being a piker. I had not prayed openly before, now when I was nearing death it was no time for a hurried repentance and a stammered prayer. I watched the vision as it slowly faded, and a great comfort surrounded me. I was happy. I crawled on and reached a shell hole.
She also declined. "I can't have that. You will at least take your own money back." "Only for another try, madam," I assented. "In that case we'll find a livelier game yonder," said she. "Bob's just a lazy boy. His game is a piker game. He's too slow to learn from. Let us watch a real game."
But you lose out on that side even when you think you've won. You get exactly what you go after, but you don't get any more, and so you lose out. Why? Because you're an egg-sucker and a nest-robber and a shrike, and a four-flusher and a piker, that's why! "The first road don't give you anything you can put your hands on; except that you think and hope maybe there's that light at the end of it.
I have read a few war stories of bombing, where baseball pitchers curved their bombs when throwing them, but a pitcher who can do this would make "Christy" Mathewson look like a piker, and is losing valuable time playing in the European War Bush League, when he would be able to set the "Big League" on fire. We had had a cushy time while at this school.
I was only in for my table stakes, so I didn't make much of a noise, nohow; but the other three kept boostin' her up till it begun to look like a man's game all right. "If you'll excuse the limit, I'd like to show my appreciation of this little hand by bettin' a hundred on it," sez Piker. "I'm willin'," sez Jabez, "an' if it goes, why, I'll see your appreciation an' raise you five hundred."
The squatters were impressed with the necessity of doing what had to be done quickly. The big 'Piker' spoke first. "Boys, ain't it true that in this yere county there ain't bin a single man executed by the law fer murder in the first degree?" "That's right. Not a one!" "And if a man has a bit o' dough behind him, isn't it a fact that he don't linger overly long in San Quentin?" "Dead sure snap."
She put on a simple White Gown and wore a Rose in her Hair, and just before starting she locked all of her Slang words in the Escritoire, whatever that may be. At the Dinner she sat next to a Bachelor who had Nothing But. She talked to him about the Panama Canal, just to show that she was no Piker.
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