Show Life on the tI Creole Belle I I Bow Jim Beesleys System Went Wrong ina iii i Poker Game do does s saId h Old tan Man ManI I Greenhut very cry the o 0 Provi d deuce nee wa s plumb foolish Au An I that I doit dODt go for br to be nor o 0 the sort But Blit it stands to reason that there fire tiie things that mIght be better than they ther are an It If a 3 mp hAG ha got d good braIn an has Ims sen sense e enough to nei thIngs they aint no reason reason h hy he speak about em The old man lapsed Into nence after and looked out or of the win window do dow for a long time evidently ing hard and arranging his hI Ideas for ut utterance Utterance terance Presently he came out front from behInd the bar and walked aro around nd to hit hI favorite seat b by another wIndow and havIng put his feet OD oi the Produced a long Jong black cigar which he carefully lIghted When he had it bUrn bUrning burning ing he resumed Non theros theres that I It 0 na 1180 tore that prevents a man from rom goin to happen To m my notion there Aint so 80 stupid A man may know as much as you like about done happened afore but he Suet just cant kno know ahead Looks to me as It if the Lord Lard had made men with eyes In the back o 0 otheir their he dS sos t they see ee In front on them an then had given era em all necks sos t the they turn around What sort of a 8 awand world wand that be to live in Id like to Looks to me like be hard gittin round It If we was as built that wa way but when ye come to look Jook at it we be just the way we c to re planned an anif II if that int a plumb foolish wn way to tomake tomake make a man I mIia my my You can know krow aU all about what done gone h by an aint no manner r o 0 use but yoU yea cant see n a millionth part of a 3 ec onI ond ahead to know comin even when make all the difference in he world orld I if you OU just what was Join to hapPen right awa away The was VUR a mam up with mo mc that I 1 cottoned to a heap that used to Worry wom over things a good bit Iong Uler ther things he used need to so sa If he cd I ony see ahead just for a minute he be het ask no more mor i t Jim Beesle his name war wae au an he were as good a there were on the river afore he got to know more about than he did about bottles Then Je he got a good deal ju just t an by he be give up hs job jeb behind the bar an aD took to pOker stead stad I thou thought t a heap o 0 Jim and I were kind o troubled about him when hen he did It T r used to talk to him like a father Cather when I conic come to know he be were about It 0 0 no god goed I sa saye Youve Youe got a sure thins thing now I 1 says saye an what the use that aa away to take one If you OU play poker r for r a 1111 Its all alJ right I aas arB It If you OU get t the other elies Cellers money but lies hes all 11 the time to get yours ours an you never know when lies hes gaIn goin to todo todo do It 04 Now it If you tit tay behind the bar bor 1 yOu sta stay where th noney Is in all comin I your our way a an none on it gum out There aint nobody to got get your Our money aWn tm Im you an theres always h hanes n es esThere There no surer way o gettin on than youve got DO now But ut It if you take taketo to poker you ou never know what night II you may drop your our whole wad on four kings LIke as not you Ou ma may gOon for tor tora fora a year winnin I sa saye e an then 1 P go broke In a night Well hed listen te fe me all tight for tor i him bun an rue me was great reat an ho he thought as much o 0 me as I did o him but ho bE w take no heed o 0 what I Id 0 Greenhut he says you know Ive Iu said bow It If a man ed cd on ony see a abit little bit ahead In this world sos eos to know for sure what was gem to lisp hAP hAPpen pen be all hed want wantI An or of cour I did know It for I hed been about that for forI years U 00 Well he Says saS 10 made Up I mInd that you can oan come doln that In draw poker nor In any uny other othar brunch o trade I aInt that thata a man canalus can alays know for certaIn but there Is Ia fluch a thing as sense sanse an 1 a little ot of It oP ioe 1 mON meet geir bell U what the iU r r I is golm to do store h b do lt for no other rea reason n o ony r t rV rye sot got that poker sense Non it stand to reason he sn says s sr If r I cn on ony cultivate that poker sense seam sos t It Jl 11 work steady stead I dont want b If I know nU all the time what the ether fellar eller n goin to do I Ien en cn beat his game gana 0 dead easy An I believe that ere poker sense ORn ean be cultivated It if youve got enough bC It An b gum Im gem to do It or bust he sa say el an anI anI I Seen twant tant to ito use to r reason wIth l him m When a m Is really sot t like Uke he be was the only Way you OU cn do wIth him ie I to let him alone So I quit rea soli in with rIm Jim Beesle Beesler an he threw UP his job ll like e I said Raid an set et tied down to business at the poker ta table table ble bleI I see seem a lot of him for a year or two for tor I 1 was vas bar on the old Creole Belle with another side partner o course an Jim he stuck to the old boat bont pretty prett steady beta as lie he was ed cd with all hands an moren that th there e eWas Was alay a good game goin oln on The Creole Belle was the crack creck boat on the tho Jow lower r river in them days s an caught the best o 0 the travel An where the best travel was the most poker was wasSell as Yell Sell I watched Jims pla as an care careful careful ful as I could whenever I Id get the an afore Joo I 1 come to thInk there was something in it as he said There aint no doubt but that he had o 0 that poker he was about There people is who ho S says S there aint no Mo such thing but every fool that knows about Ute the game knows that the man that haq the poker sense gense will beat the tho that aint got it every time J In l a square game As I was sayIn Jim sure had It Hed sense another r ninas play pla as well as most an a heap a good ln many an l I aInt Jim alays played n a strictly square game at that There was Inti latitude tude took in pla playing ing poker them days das when It come to a game but It was mIghty short r with the theman theman man was caught James Tamos Warned of Danger I used to o the danger but hed al alays s say that he was his hig poker sen e with lal reference to that very thing His aim was to be able to tell eer every time just whAt the other fellow was to do doan I Ian I an lIe was that when it come cometo to he was dead sure sure to know I I 0 Pears like hed It out t the the he cd tell what WiS goin to happen I about nine times out o ten an when It came to a reel reely serious matter like a serape lie he think he cd miss it Wed talked it over oyer sometimes when hen things WAS qUiet an he claImed as how he was gettin the thing worked down to a fine point 0 I tt Ill get thor there lie be sa says s to tome tome me An hen I do ret et so I can tell teU eel every time Ill go Over oer the rh river er lie he says He was do dip well it was the first year car I know just how much lie he was aHead till one night he was in a game with four greenhorns Twant a very big game for nobody showed over dollars In the whole game till somewhere om where nigh midnight when there come a hand band that was like Ilke a bolt 0 I 1 was lookin on an 1 I seed the play One o 0 the greenhorns dealt and It was wa Jims age fl n a dollar like they was nn nit he next man sime In Then twe o 0 em dropped an the dealer he raised It Jim looked at hiS hand ud un an lie he seen other 1 kings so lie he hehl hl ted hr her again The ne nest t man h looked at his curds cards kind o doubtful nn an he came caine In Ina a tile the double raise ralso an then the thede de dealer ler he mud made good Jim ho took cards an the next nett man two an an the dealer took I one Then the first chic ne bet 10 an the dealer raised d him 10 an Jim looked at his Hod Hed caught n a lUng king an anace anace ace hI his the strongest there c couLd uld be a straight flush 0 Made It Ten More i I Well he want to play it hard f enough to scare em out 0 course so solie lie bp just made Jt It an the next nox 1 man p pu t ti an th 1 l 1 0 left lott st t a 1 araw with four kinga an an ace in hi his lUs oi own hand hana There nobody h tot or noU Q Jet t p ci lb s the theother theother other t p ar l to have rg h b tile ay ho cl bt t They other ac 14 orth till thero nas s over oyer ten tho saml on op the table anthen f Jim A ct I 4 got to call caU for br I got no na namore nomore more money the way r I found out how bow ahead he was on his years work b his expenses Wehl s s the r feller kind c 0 slow I 1 for tor a royal J mI an I t get It but I caught a straight flush An he showed one down queen queen high Next da day when we was It over oer I says to JIm U You crin can see now where y your ur th tho the o oy Is aU all wrong The Lord men sost the they can tell goin to happen You ma may come nigh enough to it to think youre oure right for tor a long longtIme longtime tIme but youre bound to sUp slip up some sometime sometime time an look what It does to you An ho he sa says s very bitter I 1 reckon youre right Greenhut The Lord m a man that kno knows s to t 1 when a fool Is goUt gain t to stay a double raise to draw a monkey flush No theory is goin to stand pp against again t that sort ola of a thing nObody see like again Ina In a years F m ll dont pla poker that hatway ay outsIde o 0 t tie e bug se But m my the theory ory al rIght hundred years yeam or so Ck the thIng 0 that kind that ever happened cd or 01 ever wilL iiI So lie ed s taK akean started in again rm Im 1 sal sa t he seemed to hit It right O the time He Be di J t pehr tm ter terrible Tible bI bf but t h he lost often orten an alt W b Q his money mone ex extent ni gettin tb b 0 side or You S see et tai 8 thing Jim that a 7 11 p Ift hIs favor r an made nt was a good d deal t ire e were a carefuL ort o omal mal nat He given to too big chances but he were tor r the sute suie thi things gs so r n ngot got Wh taUt talk v r hed that he W itts s the 0 that poker s iise c a s t he t alays t tell what Was g goin to lt i 1 but s I Isaid sat said lie gem slow t tell he felt fait sure When I do set get sost for certain he says Ill cut loose an ake anything In sight But his theory failed him aguin just as a I was alays tehlin hint him I Me JIe got In with a party ore one after anel we left leU on the way down the rIver that W wits s for fair tj The They was cans l for forthe forthe the ante tn 14 bets bete was wae frequent JIm played along pretty careful for tor a hour or so 90 an took In Inome some ome pretty good pots but he lost 1051 Clon on ble too laIn down when his poker sense told him he W S beat which was as a Jump heap lie he li liI I was an I reen en or I thought I seen he were pro yoked so I there be trouble ahead for I never seen j man manyet yet et that pla played ed as good 11 a gathe o poker oker when be Was mad 53 he c could uld when lIe he Jim pIR Ve steady enough though till It came his deal Then I 1 seen hIm palm a e card a favorite trick o 0 tin an I must say he did it well ell I h hI ha been fUre eure 0 what I saw if I his pla play as well as I dla nd I I ne never er thought nobody ese else had ha seen It There want nothing said till the pot was made pp lP Three men men stayed JIm bein one 0 the tte three Then they c culled IJ d for cards an the othe two but juat as JIm wa lepI 1 to lila own aGlone I one o 0 the that a nt sta e 1 reached over Oer an caught 0 both 0 hIs wrists antI twIsted his hands I over oyer the ace lie he had hId In a second there was four guns across thet table T f feller Jer hop kep his bis hold hoid o 0 Jims t so eo him himan himan an JIm pull their guns hns but all the others did an a I was lookin tO td see quick work but w none on em to have boe the stomach to shoot They hesitated d a mOe an then n the feller that was tim JIm he sa says s 4 I 1 reckon w aY dont want to Mi this mon Lets can call the un have him Warned off 00 the river Au An JIm he sat still There want Vant n thIn he could say sa saSo So thc they caU d the old man an he had Jim set ashore In the woods with witha a that lie he want ne nevor r to he caught on none nono o the river b beats ats again an he never was I dont know what became of him a after er erAn An just one case ease that makes me nb foa ray how foolish It Is to make a aman aman man sost he Cant neer sa say for er tam gum to happen Poker roker sense nor no other sense do o U It Un n It things would b be a heap sight different If Jim Beesle Be sley cd ca ony have he was Vas goin to git caught that time he ha b been en rIch an re respected respected afore no now A tie there aint no telling what degradation he may have haye sunk York Sun SUllo |