Show WON BEANS FOR HIS FRIEND Gambler Made a Stake and Forced His Partner to Eat Chicago Inter Ocean Two friends at mine said the old gambler were broke and pretty hungry hun-gry One was an indefatigable gambler gamb-ler the other a man who thought of his stomach before anything else in the world They stood in front of a Sixth avenue beanery looking hungrily at a pot of pork and beana from which a waiter was taking some for a customer They hadnt a cent between them but pretty soon a friend of my game friend came along and passed out a 2 bill on request Thank heavens we can have some of those beans now said the hungry one We can eh said the other Well wait a while and well see 1 My friend made a be line for a gambling house followed by the hungry hun-gry one who pleaded with him eloquently elo-quently to something to eat first He was inflexible however and a few minutes later was seated in front of a layout with 2 worth of checks before him He won a little and then he lost a little and every two minutes the hungry hun-gry one would whisper to him to quit and get some beans He drew fascinating fascinat-ing pictures of that smoking bean pot they had been looking at but the other was game to the core He finally had about 20 in front of him and then began be-gan to plunge The hungry one gasped for breath and finally implored him to give him a quarter check to put aside for beans in case they went broke Not a cent said the other and if you dont shut up Ill kick you out v of the place The threat was useless for the other was too far gone in hunger to fear violence vio-lence He kept nagging and nagging at the player who finally got up and threw him bodily across the room But I thehungry one crept back and his first remark was about beans With an exclamation ex-clamation of rage the gambler jumped ufo cashed in S300 worth of checks grabbed his friend by the coat collar dragged him down two flights of stairs to the street ann fairly hurled him through the swinging doors of the beanery GiVe this blankatyblanked idiot 300 worth of beans he roared and make him eat every one of them Then he stood over the hungry one and made him eat beans for an hour He wouldntlet him have anything to drink riot even water and the hungry hun-gry ones pleadings for bread and butter but-ter were in vain He wanted to quit on his third plate of beans but the other tt11dltt Itt him He made l meat m-eat beans until he could eatno more and then gave him a 50 bill and loft himWhim = |