But he'll be skeerce enough when we get to Paducah.

Now, see how quick he'll catch the greenies, won't you ?" The prospect was so charming as almost to stimulate the mud-clerk to speak with some animation.
But August Wehle, the striker on the Iatan, had an uncomfortable feeling that he had seen that face before, and that the long mustache and side-whiskers had grown in a remarkably short space of time.

Could it be that there were two men who could spread a smile over the lower half of their faces in that automatic way, while the spider-eyes had no sort of sympathy with it?
Surely, this man with black whiskers and mustache was not just like the singing-master at Sugar-Grove school-house, who had "red-top hay on to his upper lip," and yet--and yet-- "Gentlemen," said Parkins--his Dickensian name would be Smirkins--"I want to play a little game just for the fun of the thing.

It is a trick with three cards.

I put down three cards, face up.