human
How are the eggs down where you are taking your meals now, Horner?
gpt
Oh, they are birds!
human
Speaking of birds makes me think that riches hath wings. I dropped seventy-five in that little game last night.
gpt
That's nothing, he said, dolefully.
human
I lost a hundred and ten last week, and I've been broke ever since. Wired home for money, but the gov didn't respond. After that game all I could think of was two pairs, three of a kind, bobtail flushes, and so on. I made a dead flunk at recitations for two days. The evening after I lost my roll I was to attend a swell affair up on Temple Street. I was in a rocky condition, and I took something to brace me up, for I knew there would be pretty girls there, and I wouldn't have missed it for anything. The memory of that horrible game was still with me, and whenever my mind wandered I was thinking of jack pots and kindred things. Well, I went to the party, and there were plenty of queens there, but I didn't seem to enjoy myself, for some reason. I fancied it possible they might smell my breath, and that worried me. I thought I would go off by myself, and so I wandered into a little room where I imagined I would be alone, but hanged if I didn't run into the hostess and a stack of ladies. Then, with my mind confused, I made a fool of myself. 'Er--er--excuse me,' I stammered; 'what room is this?' 'This is the anteroom, sir,' replied the hostess. 'What's the limit?' says I, as I fumbled in my pocket. Then I took a tumble to myself and chased out in a hurry. I saw the girls staring after me as if they thought me crazy. It was awful.
gpt
Oh, well, you mustn't mind the loss of a few dollars, said Andy Emery.
human
A man can make a fortune in this country picking up chips--if he puts them on the right card.
gpt
Put a little perfumery on that before you use it again, Emery, grinned Tad Horner.
human
It's got whiskers.
gpt
I think Swallows all right, but he reminds me of a man I knew once on a time. I haven't seen Swallows when he had over twenty-five at a time since he's been here, and still he says he dropped a hundred and ten in one game.
human
How about this man you knew?
gpt
He was a great fellow to stretch the long bow, and it became such a habit that he could not break it. He seemed to prefer a falsehood to the truth, even when the truth would have served him better. Well, he died and was buried. One day I visited the cemetery and gazed on his tombstone. On the top of the stone was his name and on the bottom were these words: 'I am not dead, but sleeping.' Now that man was lying in his grave, for his habit--
human
That's all right, said Swallows, nodding at Emery, who was laughing.
gpt
I'll square that the first chance I get.
human
Do! But when you get a roll, remember there are Others who are looking for you.
gpt
Drop this persiflage and come down to business, said Browning, winking at the others and nodding toward Hartwick, who did not seem to be taking any interest in what was going on.
human
Let's talk about the races.
gpt
Yas, by Jawve! drawled Willis Paulding, who tried to be
human
in everything.
gpt
Let's talk about the races, deah boys. That's what interests me, don't yer know.