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"Lost ag'in!" yelled Slippery Jim, / "Never a mo'sel o' luck in m' life! / Yankee, you're on th' velvet agin!" / Says Yankee: "Jim, let's play f'r a wife! / There's Bonanza Pearl, she's sweet on you; -- / Fairer 'card' no gambler ever drew!"
Slippery Jim staked high that night, / The game was poker, -- rake-in keeps -- -- / Yankee Pete hilarious, ready t' fight -- -- / Rakin' th' gold-dust up in heaps. / Jim's last poke throw'd on th' table, so; / "It's my last ounce, boys! Well, let 'er go!"