Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1885 — The Honest Gambler. [ARTICLE]

The Honest Gambler.

I suppose the story is as old as the hillt, but it is just Tas funny to-day as it was years ago whan it happened on the Mississippi boat, in the days when gambling was at its height. An old poker sharp had stuffed four aces in his boot for an emergency. Another expert tw gged the movement and equally gracefully removed them for his own use. The moment arrived and the poker sharp dived down into the leathern recess. The cards were gone. “Hold on!” said he, raising his hands to stop the game. “There’s been cheating here.”—San Francisco Chronicle.