An' to rouse your moral nacher I wants to tell
you, whatever you rakes in you keeps. Now thar's luck at the jump;
you can't lose an' you may win, so set in yere. Napoleon never has
half the show.'
"Peets goes away for an hour about somethin', an' Rainbow Sam takes
his seat; an', merely to show how one gent outlucks another, while
Peets has had the luck of dogs it's that profuse an' good, it looks
like the best Rainbow can get is an even break. For half an hour he
wins an' he loses about equal; an' he's shore tryin' hard to win,
too.
"'If I takes in a couple of hundred or so,' says this Rainbow to me,
'I allows I'll visit my folks in the States once for luck.'
"But he never visits them folks he adverts to. It's on Boggs's deal,
an' he's throwin' the kyards 'round when Rainbow's took bad. His
consumption sorter mutinies onto him all at once. He's got the seat
on the left of Boggs, too,--got the age.
"'Play my hand,' he says to Hamilton, who's stepped in from the
dance-hall; 'play my hand, Jim, till I feels a little better. I'll
be all right in a moment. Barkeep, deal me some whiskey.'
"So Rainbow walks over to the bar, an' Hamilton picks up his kyards.
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