Category: Short Stories
INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THIS WIRETAPPER WAS COLOR-BLIND. "WHOOPING" A RACE-HORSE UNDER THE WIRE. JUST LIKE FINDING MONEY. THIS SON OF FONSO WAS OF NO ACCOUNT. HARD-LUCK WAIL OF AN OLD-TIME TRAINER. STORY OF AN "ALMOST" COMBINATION. "RED" DONNELLY'S STREAK OF LUCK. AND "RED BEAK JIM...
"I was rather surprised that he didn't come back when he got sober. But, nope, he didn't come back at all. I got another stableman and during the following week, the last of the...
3. Part 3"I went at my freak Fonso right away to see if anything could be done with him. I devoted more time to that one than I did to any of my two-year-olds or three-year-olds in train...
2. Part 2"And, talking about Alexander Island, there were some funny ones yanked off over there, sure enough, some of them almost as funny as a few that happened over in New York at the...
13. Part 13"This, of course, is only preliminary and it only puts me next to what the marks around the table have got in their hands before the draw. If they're too well fixed for me befor...
14. Part 14"The game they dub poker out there isn't poker at all, in my opinion. It's a hybrid sort of affair, full of fancy moves that must have been chucked into the original game by ear...
5. Part 5"We all gibed and roasted Red about the delirium-tremens finish we foresaw for him, and when he didn't turn up at the track at all on the following day, necessitating the turnin...
9. Part 9"Well, about a month after I struck Latonia--it was then getting on toward midsummer--the old trainer in hard luck who owned Caspar took to his bunk, not to get up any more. He...
8. Part 8"On a pipe," said the red-haired tout. "Rolling Boer. He'll make 'em dizzy and stroll in with his head a-swingin' an' his tail a-swishin'. Do you come in with me f'r the half?"
15. Part 15"Baker nodded good-naturedly to Haskell and then waited for the turns on the ace. The ace was only half a dozen cards below, and it lost. The dealer ranged ten more yellows besi...
4. Part 4"This was a hard fall for me, I'm telling you that. I had been building on it for one of my cinch hunch things, and to hear that it had gone rank took the nerve out of me. Of co...
18. Part 18"So the game was arranged. Four or five of us were invited around to the old Willamette House to look on while the game progressed. The two men sat down to the game about 8 o'cl...
16. Part 16"A couple of months after he quit Baltimore he turned up at The Dalles in Western Oregon and settled down to the career of a short poker player. Where he had picked up the game...
12. Part 12"I had the buck when it came my turn to deal again, and so it was a jackpot. I was wishing myself well out of it, and had cold feet, if ever a man did, though I was afraid to sa...
7. Part 7"A couple of months after this accident Kelley, somewhat pale, turned up in the paddock at the Gut one morning and announced that he was fit to ride again. His services were imm...
17. Part 17"'Well, I'll tell you what I'll do to give you a start in life, Tim,' said Carmody finally. 'You've got my checks for $11,000. Supposing you call those two contracts worth $70,0...
1. Part 1INTRODUCTORY NOTE. THIS WIRETAPPER WAS COLOR-BLIND. "WHOOPING" A RACE-HORSE UNDER THE WIRE. JUST LIKE FINDING MONEY. THIS SON OF FONSO WAS OF NO ACCOUNT. HARD-LUCK WAIL OF AN OL...
11. Part 11"Phil Cuthbert was a raiser of perique tobacco up in St. James's parish, and he had besides several thousand acres in cotton. His father, who died before the war was well under...
10. Part 10"Mighty belligerent sort of an affair, too," he mused. "Now, what has this Jim Conway done to my partner that he needs to be punched for it? And who's this Bub? Bub! That's a de...
19. Part 19"Before we got back to Guthrie, Jink McAtee and several of his pals in the pool to smash the Gately squeeze-spindle had been given the sudden chase by the United States Deputy M...