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Show A OOQ THAT KNOWS A S.TRA1CMT - FLUSH.,, A quiet game of draw, quarter ante, was in progress the other evening even-ing at Chico. One of the party managed to get a heart flush, ace at the head, out of the deck, and laid it in his lap, waiting a chance to play it. Presently the chance came. The guileless gentleman counted out $40 better with one hand, and quietly went down with the other hand (or that flush. It wasn't there. He had to play his original hand. Two ol the party called his $40 better, and one of them in the show down produced the identical heart flush that he had been at such pains to secure. He knew it was the same, forthe ace was crimped just ns he hul done it. The secret was that Ira Wetherbte's dog", '"Pat-sey," '"Pat-sey," had quietly put his noso in, picked up the flush, carried it around to his friend, wagged his tail knowingly know-ingly and walked oil". San Francisco Chronicle. |