Show BEGGED ON A GOOD HAND HD Excusable Assault on One of the Par Participants Part Participants t in a Game of Seven Up UpS Senator S Clay Cla of Georgia is looked upon as one one of the raconteurs In the upper house of congress says the Brooklyn Eagle In negro neg dialect sto stories storIes to tories ries he is inimitable This 5 Is his latest late t Yh n Judge David Irwin was hold ing court in Marietta Ga a negro was brought before him for smashing the nose nos of a a companion while the two were engaged in a supposedly friendly game of cards There was as a dozen witnesses who testified that there was no provo provocation provocation roo cation whatever but that the the prisoner I had suddenly leaned oer over the table and smashed the nose of the man opposite I nearly ne all knocking that organ org n out of place I IThe The belligerent was convicted of as assault sault saul and battery battel and sentenced to six si months Imprisonment Time TIle man had hadin hadin hadin in the past pst borne a it a good reputation and Judge Irwin had known 1 him for foi years year I and beside beide the judge was noted for his clemency to first offenders So he asked the prisoner when the cae came before him for review leview why wh he had ha act acte I ed ad e in such a manner You must mu t have had some good rea rca reason reason son he said mid Now Kow tell tel me all al about it i juse between ourselves I Deed Peed I did have some reason deed I did the negro blurted out did you ou eber play seben up uple The le stern dispenser of justice de tie declined del dined cUned to answer the question queston Whether l er I play seven up or not has nothing to todo todo 1 do o with wih the case he said sid I But deed it i hab it I hab heaps to do wit it i the negro nero insisted for lessen lesen you can play seben up you how this yere happened You see se me and that ober dar was pla in and I dole the and and I turn up de nine mime spot of or si and anti I hab in my ban han the jack and the ten ter and a d the tho deuce deu e He Ho beg an anI anI anI I gib im one omme an den what you ou think dat ober dar clar done He lead de deace deace ace acc ob spades an I put on ou my deuce I Den what you ou think dat ober dar dardone dardone dardone done He lead de do king kin ob oh spades an anI anI anI I gave him a hard look Jook but I put lUt on my ten Den what you ou think that onery one lowdown done joge He lead de queen ob spades I put on my jack an den I just lean ober an smash hes lies nose clean offen hes cean face Cace I When rhen order was restored the judge solemnly revoked the previous sen sea I tence ten e or I think tat that if I the 1 he said all al the the requirements of ot justice which the sovereign SYe eig state of or Georgia Geora satisfied demands demand will wi be bountifully |