Schweinmagen's Game of Poker.

Manawatu Herald, 30 September 1897, Page 2

Schweinmagen's Game of Poker.

The usual little game of poker was running at Scbweinmagen's, and the players were all betting very freely. An unusually large jackpot was in the centre of the table, and as the cards were being dealt Si-bwoinmngfn remarked :

" V*M. shentknipnp, I guess I yin dia bot."

It was duly opened, and there waa a raise of two all the way around. Schwt>inmag» j n drew one card, another player drew two, and two stood pat. The betting was brisk, and every time it came around to Schweinmagen he raised. Suddenly his four-year old boy exclaimed : *• 0, look ! Papa's got four cards all alilep 1"

" Shut up y.our mouth 1" roared Schweinmagen, but it was too late. None of the other players would call his last raise. Sohweinmagen took the boy upstairs. He returned in five minutes, red in the face, and resumed the game, with the re« mark : "You bet, I sphank dot poy goot !" Half-an-bour later, when all were trying to win a big pot, Sohwein* magen's six year-old girl exclaimed : " Papa has got four cards just all alike l" Again every one dropped their hands), Schweinmagen pocketed the cash, and the six year-old girl was led upstairs. When, a few mioutes later, the grocer's six year-old son said : " Papa has got four all alike," one of the players studied his band an unusually long time, scratched his head, studied the grocer's face, and then called. " What have you got ?" he demanded. 11 What haf you got ?" " I called. Show down your hand." Schweinmagen spread out a pair of duoes. The grooer didn't take the boy upstairs, but whipped him on the spot for lying.

" Dot poy might haf fooled some of you shentlemann," he explained* —San Francisco Post.