Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1914 — SHOW THE GAMBLING SPIRIT [ARTICLE]

SHOW THE GAMBLING SPIRIT

Bidders at Auction Sales, Without Funds, Find Delight in Just Avoiding Being r ßhown Up.

One of the funny sights, to the person who didn’t bid at all, at the Morris Park real estate auction, was the look of high courage, shading insensibly into reckless daring, on the face of some man who was bidding 1800 when he knew he would have trouble raieing 30 cents. "A-trun dolls! A-trun dolls!" the auctioneer would call, trippingly on the tongue. "A-trun dolls! Going at a-trun dolls. Going! Unless!” The strain on the bidder’s face would be terrible to behold. What on earth was he going to do if the lot. was knocked down to him? What was he going to do, he asked you. with wild, beseeching eyes. "Why doesn’t somebody go on and bld? I don’t want the darn lot,” be whispered to his next neighbor one night “Ateny-flve, Ateny-five!" called the auctioneer, just then. "What does he say?” queried the reckless one. ’ ■ "Eight-twenty-five. You’ve lost your lot” "Ain’t that the plague-take-lt luck!” said the reckless one, who was also resilient "Neb mind. I’ll get another chance before this thing Is over.”— New York Post