Show I HE CAME of GOOD STOCK I I I i BUT ur you GET MORE OUT OF y Y y I i I A MAN THAN r IS IN HIM I o I I V DU cant nver make int j to get more mere out n a airan good Lord has hu f in s td man as he of w at the end of his bar t An I inmar there aint nO good to mere money In pencer nor there js 1 ino the game II ou reckon on any man beth bein fop fool enough to try that an t thy It ft they had sense enough to size up afore setti in ut there d dant Ut be on earth so fOOliSh but what if f anybody can think going to be fool enough to do it That there Peter as just w went nt Up fl the treet was waa one 0 fellers SOme years ago as had more c to em in the way wa general than ten smart men cd larn through college ex t he lere a fool You tall aU him that ony he just naturally know of any value Ca Came e of Good Stock all sll t he WAS just Irl COine of good stock too tool l l alp old man were reckoned un 0 tIe the best poker In Arlum Arkan a CIty In hi his day He t tre of his 1115 family he wore alive an he left em sonic little property bela s he were a 4 industrious man t tended to hi his busIness I never him t to neglect lk for a sin single Je night Ight if there were a game goin and he let lIquor interfere e l pleasure he to say au an anTO TO elo his drinkin ater the game ame ameHe He did his bett with Peter I reckon there want never no young feller In Int t had a t better 0 gottin gettin a l thorough Peter Cart Cartwright Cartwright wright had The old man used to spend 1118 doin his best to teach tench P Peter r lib ItOw to Play Ilay poker nn an nobody a had a bette er but twant no use used usei i d Thought Hini Ornery HIs dad SKY says to nie ue one da tiny with teas tears in hit his e eyes I reckon that cub n mine Is just plain ornery ive did f t i I cn think or of send in him to bed b hungry to kickin the f tuf fin out of him Ien he pl ys foolish but p pears urs like he cant aut sen sense e the game gamen II n o 06 I dont see become of him j he says An there aint no Question in I Im m my mind but that the old fellow wor Vor ned jed Into his grave premature fret frettin tin about that boys future I cd see lIe he were down he tole me about the eff he a 8 to bring the boy up In Int Inte t te way he should go so 0 s st t when he was old he cd go It ft The tears came in hit hI e e when hen he were a tellin about what he did that I gave hIm 5 he says ant an put up my pocket it for out so peter he stood to make 10 or lose an I said to him if he lost Id lick him good and proper co be no more liberal nor that nor I 1 see no bettor inducement a young oung feller cd have to do his best ha thou thought ht hed ha a anyhow ater aU all the Ive gave hIm Well ou believe It but buton on ony r on the deal we made a jackpot an It went on for two or three deals afore he opened It I came in on two queens uee 5 an we both d ed t tH three cards H b tan an I raised him a ones in the draw an say Greenhut what dYe reckon that boy done lie He called rue me ari au showed down three a aces es rust Just naturally I walt after that afore givin hIm the Id spoke P ab about out I did 10 mb aate him good goodan an took pains to explain hy I done don donit donet it t but twIt twant no U The e c U three of 01 off f me ngin a 41 pat hand an went broke su so I had to lick him some more but ret Im monstrous i afeard taint goin to do dD no good YoU I cant pour a quart of whiskey into a aI aI I pint flask an Im my boys a aI I I pint flask He Pined Away Ater that the phd man to 10 pins away like an when he cashed In he left ever everything thing he had to his with that Peter want to have from the estate thou ten he make some show of bein being some somebody body She was telling me about it knowin I was a friend o t the old man an like ike likely ikey ly y to tell her the bost doShe says to no me that he Were terrible like o 0 what a poor show shaw she had of gettin any comfort her only son He aint no good on earth h he says to her jan an I dont ont see no way o 0 makin makina a man 0 him you ou cn get hIm to set In with them players down to place long enough for to larn the game Taint like t thell thell I hell ever Jarn It even then but he will there if he cn ever larn it Send him down there h he says an speak to Greenhut It the they cn put him through a course 0 sprouts fetCh him If they cant there aint no hope YeU the tho old Jady ady wore were so worried an Id thought a good bit o 0 the om old man Cartwright anyway t I told her herto herto to send the thc bo boy along an Id see what cd be did with him It a a Kindergarten U We c aint mania kl round here but if an thIn to be made the boy well do our best I says But Mis Cartwright she pear to take no what I Isaid Isaid said ony just lot t she were to send Peter to me an be a Chance o him gittin ater all an she sort 0 dried her tears an says shell do It So T seen it were up to me to give her some pInts I 3 says to her You know Mis lIS Cartwright there aint no larnin o 0 othe the game grone 0 poker without it ir If Peter comes he wants to come tol set into a a game You dont need to give e him no great money to once I says for If you do hell most likely lose It all In a gallop Likely hell los the first fo fec times any ow O 0 YOU dont better gi gir him moren morea r ty or a hundred at a time till he s sort rt 0 gets the hang hango Looked to See Her Eer Flinch I 1 was as lookin to see her flinch When I come to talk money bebi she were a woman but shed been to seem her old man win an lose to once an she were good grit Moren that she he had confidence In I was vas tellin her Iter I never went back backon backon on my religion n an I says to her The bO d book says ys Mis Cart I as how pure religion arl s fortl visit the rs r an I orphans In their affliction an If I en cn do and nd good cal callin on you at any time why you cn alays call on me m But she said she reckoned there rant no use o 0 my cauSe There want no distress round the house what come com o 0 Peters omer ornery ways waye an shed send him down own to m my place An she went home per u I told the boys they was gp gO fp to nave a pupil the there r was waR sonie tie disposition tod fun at the Idee They seem no fl gret mota obligation re ln on em to oid cub That was the wa way the wa way Joe put it in an he spoke onas ona t ty an says them was his hh Old done me up good moren once he says an if theres an any to be did pears to me mea a stout hickory switch d be as good gooda a weapon n to do It wIth as aai an any Jake Spoke But Jake hed been qUiet like an he speaks up an says say What sort or of a game game is it to tobe be Greenhut Is we expected to poker with this cub for clothespins or toothpicks or is it goin to be reel live draw poker uSo So then I teNs tells tern em t the is is goin stake him from time to time and send hint him along fur for to ram larn all there is isto isto to be larned an when they heard that they all set up straight an took more notice Its up to you ou I sayS for to play the most skilful game you ou knows I aint goin to have n no inferior article handed out to the thc young man pla ln in his good mon Y to larn tm the game Jame in my house more specIal when hes my old friends son U Moren oren that I says taint goin gem to tobe he be no ways for tor hIm to lose tose all the time Likel Likely h hed d get discouraged discouraged aged his an th old woman not see her way to him continual if he never to make no winnin You kno know women Is cur ous It to em clear like that twant tant long afore they seen it were a reel dut duty for em to do what they could tord the young man a proper start in life lite an they said the they mind givin a few to it now non an again just to see how goin to turn out Th The boyS boy is a little hasty sometimes fm not seem Into a subject as a as they might but I will say t when they do see a dut duty a starin of tem em in the face th they aint no wa way slow about d doin in it Pete Was Scared Long about three nights after Peter come a In soon goon ater dark He were a clumsy clums chump at the best an he looked like he were scared outer hIs seven senses but I spoke nIce nIcean nicean an easy to him au an aim ulm to a drink o 0 red lIquor an he got lImbered up quick so t he got spunk enough to sat st If there was any poker goin on onAs onAs As It happened there were a game an I took him into the back room an sold him tiny fifty In chips st he h have to bother about gettin more an 1 ft him to take his first reel I lesson 0 course his dad had hIm some but with a teach teacher or er tellin you things all the time Aint no way vay to ram lain real poker no moron moren on the floor an o an legs is the wa way to ram larn rams s You e SOt ot In t the e tat r t larh got gotto to set into a reel to Well rell this were a reel same game all allright right I heerd ater that Peter run his fifty up to nIgh a hundred he 4 I caught an ate aee full an run up agin I four eights Ater that just naturally I II I there want else for him to do only to wait till his ma a staked lim for another 1 game t S1 e St b I I recko ha told lor ller bout th the wa way thin things s run nn an i ish sh he enough fm hearm hearin her old 1 than man t lk k tie he were alive for to f see e twant nt Pet Peters fat t hed lost ilie sta lie round the next nt night ht an another other fifty an pl d tl he were s sv v ah ahead ad Then he got e c l feet an jumped the game Some o 0 the Joys boys was a lit i I tie indignant about it ai wanted to what the good o 0 tr in to tomake make a man that 1 kind of a piker but lut I says to em em twant goU to do doI I o 0 good to nobody for him to Quit loser everY ever tIme lime H He never neer learn that way hem as how lIed hed sure It sc his c let alone aono the heart his mo ma What That you Jou all has to do I says ays Is not to get et weary in well dOln doin Theres lessons to be Im fm losin losina a as rell ell as winnie I says sas an hes gem to take his lessons all right if r he sheered oft 0 course I were He COme round the Ye very next night with a hun red tred an lost it In about a hour Next tight lie he flashed d another hundred an lost that an then we di nt S see e him nb more t for ra a week WJ When m he did me annin he brought t fifty rt an the bo boys s seen t he want like likely I ly to take no proper Interest into the same ame he made a now an again t ow it happen 1 l t h he hea a little streak Q 0 luck night an lea up th thirty rt odd dollars so he beg begin in to feel lIke h he e were ere larnin some fiu flu I After th 1st me inc It If I reckon he were o some but I one to hold out no false hopes so 50 soI I J I just told hint him h he Were th ony way there was to Well ell it went on fOr like two months an 3 al 1 of a sudden he quit c comin min Ye We was up just about the time he quit an a as nigh as we cd figger It he must hat ha dropped nih to get on to draw poker That was a thousand or so moren anybody Y thought his dad had left an anC Vi e C heard afterward d t l the he ramil family was numb busted It was a gr grat at moral I lesion to em an h the mon y Mis come to see me d about it an Uke she were dis disposed posed to kIck some count o 0 the bo boys s winnin all her mori but I put it to her lter reasonable I She Bad Done Her er Duty There ant aItt no good to get more outer a man nor the good Lord has litis put into him T I says an its ICs clear nough now t Peter aint cut out for fora a man Youve Youe tool the only way there was as o 0 ou out an you aint got ot no call for to let your con conscience conscience science trouble you Youve did your best hest for the boyan if there aint the i its the Lords You an I hays gays has did our duty She pear tobe altogether sat if taIled but s say t much an she went t away sorrowful like pa parents n ts Is when their chI ren is worth less She said or other about the three thousand but I help her none abou abo t not harbi played I In the thc game myself An theres that Peter CartwrIght that just went u the thC street as less as ever eer He never to t o spite of the was ven him just you Jou cant got get mol man man there is into to him lim |