REASONABLE DOUBT.
" Pardner," said Derringer Dan, "you'll excuse me, but I'll have to qmt you. I ain't playin' no more poker tins evenin'." " But you have a lot of cliips yet," remarked the young man from the east. " I know it. And Fm goin' to cash 'em in too. You look like er tenderfoot, an' ye talk like one. But I've heard o' people that got bunkoed and bought gold bricks even if they did read the newspapers, an' orter know better." " I really don't quite follow you." "I had four nine-spots a little while ago:" "Did you?" " Sartin'." An' ye, didn't do a thing but say ye'd stay out. Then I had a flush an' ye said the same. I got four kings an' an ace, an' ye laid down yer hand ez usual." "That was remarkable." "'Remarkable' don't seem ter quite cover the ground fiu- me. Pardner,l don't say yer workin' one o' these here Boentgen j ray outfits on me. All I say is thet-I ain't aplaying no more poker this evenin'."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5686, 3 October 1896, Page 7
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175REASONABLE DOUBT. Star (Christchurch), Issue 5686, 3 October 1896, Page 7
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