“ ‘And straights beat three of a kind, don’t they?’
“ ‘Well, yes,’ says Bassett, ‘they commonly do, when you get ’em.’
“ ‘And blazers, do we play them, and jumpers? And do we play with a joker?’
“Bassett was puzzled for a moment, an’ before he could get started Winterbottom busted loose. ‘No!’ he hollered, just like he were mad. ‘No, we don’t play with a joker, nor big an’ little casino, nor right and left bower, nor his nobs, nor his heels. We play draw-poker. An’ we don’t play blazers nor jumpers, because we don’t know what they are and we don’t care a darn. We wouldn’t play them if we did know.’
“ ‘Well, well,’ says Hapgood, ‘that’s all right. I only asked because they’re in the book, and we have to know, you know, before we play, you know.’
“ ‘Well, we know,’ growled Jake and he started to deal again. While he was dealing Bassett put up his ante an’ Hapgood, who set next, he says, ‘I straddle,’ an’ throws in two chips. That makes it four to play, an’ Blaisdell he throws down his cards. Pearsall comes in an’ so does Winterbottom. Bassett makes good an’ Hapgood raises it eight. They was playin’ table stakes.
“Pearsall, havin’ next say, he says, ‘I raise you eight,’ an’ shoves up his chips.
“ ‘Oh!’ says Hapgood, speakin’ up quick. ‘Then you don’t play the doublin’ game?’
“ ‘What in thunder is the doublin’ game?’ says Pearsall.