Parker Guns Case

Many years ago, we had a small monthly poker group- usually Fridays and rotated Hosts houses for the event- nickle, dime, quarter stuff, three raise limit, either 5 or 7 card stud or 5 card draw-- Mike had a hot night that Friday, he was hosting, and over the fireplace was an old Parkhurst hammer double that belong to his granddad!

Mike won nearly $50 that night, cashed in and got two twenties from the banker and small bills, and later told me that as his wife Irene had the bad habit of going through his wallet, he took both twenties, rolled them into tubes and stuffed each one in the muzzles of that old wallhanger, for "safekeeping"-- time went by, Mike came home from work, grabbed a beer and headed for the den, and noticed that the old gun was gone.

When Irene got home from work later, Mike asked her if she knew where the gun had disappeared to. This was in October, Irene told him that her younger brother had borrowed it for duck hunting, and she thought it was OK for him to use it, and Mike had other guns that he used instead.

Mike had to bite his tongue, not to ask about the $40 stashed in the muzzles, a few days later his brother-in-law brought it back with glowing testimony to its duck killing abilities, and never said a word about the 'confetti" that must have cleared the muzzles when he fired it at mallards.