Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1892 — CALLING HIM DOWN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CALLING HIM DOWN.

INOW, ' Said “I’ll hot «h»’* th#PA ntil ftßii “And there she is. Ip# Haljjulcf. xiere you ur©—“■xoxwjr the long green. Once Ina whiteTjar® caughtYust in that way. Coma, hurrah, boys—whoa next? Here* the marble—you can see it go under the cup. Now, I’ll bet you either w*y. ate * Three rough hands were raised with three twenties, when a husky voice shouted at the edge of the crowd: 4 “Hold in ver bronchos, boys.*|%a| the first man to bet.” A burly individual in a blue shirt and broad bar. “Now, professor, I’m ready fur ye. Lift up yer box. There's the ball, dead to rights—-sec it* fellers?” The boys answered affirmatively - “Here’s a twenty, professor,” went on the husky voiced I bet the ball’s under that cup. ’Cause why? ’Cause I'm- a rational man, an’ we’re all rational menj|we ■ believe what we see. We seen the ball under that cup an' it’s got to be here au, I’m bettin’ it is there. It tain’t there, they’s been a hocustocus and that kind o’ work don’t: go down with this hyer community.” The husky voiced man produced • six shooter about as long as a Winchester. “In my opinion I’m bettin on a dead sure thing. Lift up the "KIESSL .a. an ominous “click” and the husky voiced man looked the protestor in “rhTWw smiled, * » way, coughed, hesitated and would have said something had not a pair of determined, steely gray eyes give him fair warning. WW He raised the box-the marble was there. “I thought so,” said the husky coiced man, as he pocketed the money. “If you want to take any . more bets, professor, I reckon this hovs'll accommodate ye. 1 * Hut he didn't He faded oat of the saloon and Anaconda knew him ao more. ■

Hold on! bold on! Thief-You jest bet die chile er*s hold on to ’em. Won’t drop a single pullte. ,