It kind of amused me—
What I always say is, intellect is always important, in its place, and industry, and even ideals, so long as they are thoroughly practical, but what is more important in life than a Sense of Humor? And whatever faults I may have, certainly no one has ever been able to accuse me of lacking a Sense of Humor. And so—
Say, I hate to put Mr. Laks on to this; guess maybe it'll cost me a lot of money the rest of this game, but what he may 've thought was my being tickled by having such a good hand wasn't nothing but my being amused by having such a collection of tripe.
"He thinks," I thinks, "he thinks I've got a lallapaloosa here. I'll make him think I got three of a kind."
So when Simms calls for cards, I discards two cards—
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