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Show A Poker-Playek'S" Bluff. One night I was sitting by the chair of a player, who was an old acquaintance and a Virginian. It wag a pretly high game, the chips being fives, : twenty-fives and fillies. Atunestage of the game somebody got to raising before the draw, and in a minute or two there was an much as $1,000 on the board. When the hands were helped, one man took one card, another stood pat, another took two cards, and so did the party behind whose chair I w:;a tuning-. They all bet before he did, and the amount put up by each "as, il 1 remember "ghtly, $500 s'raight. When it came to my fiienl'a turn be went into his breast pocket, aud pulled out a wallet and fished thence a certified check or draft for $3,500. Going to a deak he wrole his name acroaa tho back, resumed his sett, threw the paper in the centre and said: "Gentlemen, I've been run out of Virginia. I was once a man of wealth, but the war came and closed me out. I settled up my business busi-ness the best I could, and lhat certified certi-fied check for $3,500 represents not only the fortune I once had, but is every dollar I have in the world. I see that $o00 the gentleman bet and ihe balance of this check, $3,000." The man who stood pat, as he turned up his cards and showed a big flush, sa:d, "I lay down mine." Another laid down a full; the next three aces. ' My friend then raked iu the pile and! showed his b nd. He bad a pair of j . (ours. |