"I don't know much about cards, and I don't want to play for money." "That's dern foolishness," said the stranger, whose object it was to clean out his new friends, being an expert gambler.
"Perhaps it is," said Joe, "but I only speak for myself.

Mr.
Bickford may feel differently." "Will you take a hand, Bickford ?" asked the Pike man, thinking it possible that Joshua might have some money of which he could relieve him.
"You kin show me how to play if you want to," said Joshua, "but I won't gamble any." The Pike man put up his pack of cards in disgust.
"Derned if I ever met sich fellers!" he said.

"You're Methodists, ain't you ?" "We generally decline doing what we don't want to do," said Joe.
"Look here, boy," blustered the Pike man, "I reckon you don't know me.

I'm from Pike County, Missouri, I am.

I'm a rip-tail roarer, I am.