Show WHEN PISTOLS RULED f A Poker of the th I Inter Ocean I There was ft good man many pot j nectar travel the river lu In the old days bate do de wait wah said ad Caleb Mix the te yet vet STan eran bartender on the Mississippi p pocket N Natchez an some of em was mo monstrous nifty There was one thing they al always aYl u eter brag about that might ha been true an not Twant very ott of otten t ten en set in by themselves an try to chaw each other up Just naturally always get a suck sucker r In the game I II if they could but one once in a while when I wat nobody around that hat would play get up a game I an when they did always agree before beginning to play playa a perfectly straight t square cam An Ad Anthe the brag was that when a BAlDNer Kin give his word to play pity square he always done doneIt it itI I never ReVer took no stock in that 0 O course they WILl was always care careful ful for jt It were scene o shoot quick if one of em sot but I dont reckon there was one on em that haT ha takes ay any adva advantage lie be could In the game no matter what lie on might ha said before he sat In Anyway one o 0 t the e worst I ever see at a poker table an Ive seen seena a good many was when four of Om em wu was together on the old Creole Belle Bene just before we got ot to New Or fir Orleane leans leane on the home trip ORe one night In the th tall ot is or 58 It been a good trip for any anI of em Somehow there been much doln doin on the way up an JI back it was worse It just happened that there Vant no passengers either way that cared to play ony a fe few that was Wail either too careful to lose much or t have much with sin ern to ta lose Jo I 1 dont reckon any one ot em had bad taken In a hundred dollars in the whole float an aa the way they spent money that want Just naturally they was sore an when they see the there wu was no c chance nce o I Imade doln doin with ith the pub public they roads made it asp to 10 b have ve a game their own selves lne the last night an see aee which of em d have to suffer sutter to help hep the others Galt There was Al Davis an Gus Hello Hallo Halloway way an George Billings a an Pierre Beauregard They was all 11 tho thorOugh thorOughbreds an was known knon up ass aa Clowa eown the rivet for nervy men as a man had to tobe be to hold his own among the sports them 1 days das but Beauregard wu was a little the niftiest t otto oItt o 0 the whole bunch They sa said he come from pod good people an had ought to be a gentleman hut but buthe he were it ft black sheep heep an they have to do with him but tIO so fu far fua faras a as manners an education gota he were ere equal to an any o 0 the aristocrats In New Orleans He were a dandy too even among the gamblers an they was all dandies them da days s sHe He were a 8 weman womanish chap too an as soft an In his talk as a preacher but when there was any call for it hed light fight like a tip tiger si Rid halt half a dozen du for tr they fought duels them days an a he had a record o killin four mesa mett with a ip In rou tima an Davia vIs had good g reputations too fighting but B Hello way was a man Im fm up UD river some ome whores that been known In InNe Ne New Orleans an whether h lid were ft r Well as I aa sayin the they made U it up to have bave on at poker before into loto New Orleans on Ute the tOme home I triP An i the play began about t 4 We was was due at the levee before d dog Break an they had some six or eight I hours to play that L is If they lasted that t le whIch W waco doubtful for tor It were I a moral that the play would be high if the run good I fligh play sit always make ake II a short game though They played lOAf along tin till midnight any good hinds hands bIg tsa Is betWeen two poor ones The They was waa all pretty cautious as for a chance about as nigh asure thing for tor Hello Hallo wa way There w a 5 that was sweetened UP till th there le was near 10 In it an h he caught four sevens in tM the deal He were In the golden seat too for br he deat an things was car smooth th him that trip BtU Bill logs opened the pot for lor a hundred right t under the guns an Bea Beauregard regard lil ted histed him a hundred Davis Dads sat next an n whether he did It to pr protEct Billings or not I 1 dont do t kno know b but ut h he e came in with 00 more It for to draw cards Just naturally b he laid back to see If be any ore I raisin before the draw au an he juat I I conic in inI I I Billings have haTe no hud hand to raise I O but he mad made good an I 1 reckon must ho hI a cross crosscut cut for he raise no more so 80 all Davis had to d do was to set beck back an wait There was 1700 In the POt an anthe the draw to come Billings took two cards an aa Beau Beauregard regard stood pat DavIs studied for tor a aI awhile while an then hed take two I I Then the dealer o 0 Course coune he lone one It was ft t pretty situation an about as night l sure eure thing for Hallo Halloway Halloway way as I 1 ever see Me In a white chip bela bein 1 an waited to see what kat the do Ie Be have to walt wait long for tor B put up bi his wAite chip an 1000 Davis down his cards Whether he had threes three or whether hed blen bluD I never knew but even I threes three want a good hand to put up 1800 1000 In h under them circumstances anee Whatever lie Ite had he make no mistake In la it down That give Halloway his chance and he be do a thing with It ony to put pur up OO more Billings took to the woods an It was up to Beauregard good an hard Just naturally he no way o 0 what H Halloway was it on he one card carel out It looked like hed filled a full tull or a high flush an o course ke he might have bae fouts Anyway y It made Beauregard atu for some time but lie he had a king full an o course eouse le he lay Jay It do down I re reckon kon mo most t players wouLd ha ba It once onee more if had bad the money alE had bad money but he looked at BaUo monstrous keen n till Ull he be tided satisfied that piat thea lVIn no bluff about hout It it an anthen anthen then he O 0 courm COllIS there w want nt no proof o 0 crooked Ute the fact that Halloway had bad dealt a pt jot run full out a against t fours tors In his own hand but thom tellers fellers knowd one another er pretty well an aa I suppose there want strange In their hem suspicious Anyway there was some c ile watch In done the next time Ute the deal eIel came to an ae a the devil would have It there was threet three hat haRd hands out 8 want in It It but I Beauregard had a flush Davis had a atral straight and caught a small fulL Stra yes yea They played straights on the rive as long ago as tM that bitt t It were the rule nIle then that they only cab counted when hen it were understood be beforehand beforehand forehand The best beet players w the value of the hand band though an It were played pretty prett general though there was some that for em Anyway Anway there was some pretty ty stiff betting an cleaned up Me or on t the hand haDd I aint saying there wan as anything wrong IOng about It It an there sure want no proof of anything but bat Davis spoke up very nasty an says Youre gettin pretty strong on the he deal aint you Well galloway showed quick enough whether he was a fighter or not AS I was sayin there want nt no nobody body bodO whether he was 9 or not but before Davis was through Hallow Halloway had a gun tUn shoved square un under der hIS nose an was a Youn eAt et them W woj sit ea at t sin quick too Beg my 1 yOu or rn Iii blo blow your bra out 0 I Jt it seem possible that he w would uld for Davis Dals reely charged him with i th though thE words sure was wa an a insult in them days was 81 counted worse than a blow but h he had the drop all aD right an if Davis had hail had sense hed ha took it back badt an laid for a chance later but I reckon he was pretty mad an beta a aman aman man without fear he undertook to jaw jawback jawback back backI I 1 dont just remember what as ashe he said but I know knew he be started to say 1 ugly an aD Halloway pulled his tri trigger er before the words was wa fairly out O course Davis fell feU over dead an anthe anthe the n next minute Billings an Halloway was at each other It seem possible that they tO could miss when they was near enough to touch each oUter other but I reckon th struggle that spoiled spelled their elm aim Any Anyway i way they tIred three or four 8 shots be 00 before tore fore either of tnt fell but wl when O n tM they t did fall they were both dead I Jut Just naturally there thu wu was a terrible excitement It was an all quick that there want no ChOt for nobody i but btu Beauregard to Interfere if an any anybody I body had bad wanted to but after it was i iaU aU all over everybody rushed In to see I what It meant an aa the only man on the boat oot that seem the least bit ex excited cited was Beauregard I Hed sat perfectly still through it I all on but not makin a move An Aa all he said laid when It was all over was Well that seems to 0 stop this game o 0 pOker pretty completely I noticed though that when he got up from the table an they wu was clean elean In things away there want much of any all money on the table been a good deal while they was play in but nobody never mowed what be of it i I 1 bad my own Ideas but butI I never isid Id I |