"You may draw on me for all you like, if you care to continue.

We shall see that you get a ticket back home.

No man can ask more than that!" "I have a thousand acres of cotton land 'n a hunnerd niggers waitin' for me to git home," said the Honorable William Jones, "an' by hockey, I raise the ante to twenty dollars right hyer! Are you all comin' in ?" "I have at least that much left in my locker," answered Judge Clayton.

"What do you say to doubling that ?" "Suit me," said Dunwody briefly; they nodded assent all around, but the younger man ventured: "Suppose I sit with you for one jack-pot, gentlemen.

The hour is growing late for me, and I must plead other duties.