PENNY CHEQUES.
. A taxicab drew up at tho pavement ia Haymarket recently and out dashed A well-groomed man aged about twentyfive. Paying the cabman, he flourished what appeared to be a bundle of cheques, and addressing those nearest to him. said rapidly; "Who will give
mc a penny for one of these? Only a penny, I can't stop. Only one to each person." Soon there was a little'crowd round him, the "Mail" says, and he was selling the "cheques" as fast as lie could hand them out. The buyers included men in silk hata, women carrying pet dogs, and working men. Within four minutes the young man had sold seventy-one "cheques." Then ho raised his hat, glanced quickly up and down, and jumped in a passing taxicab. The "cheques" were drawn on the Bairns Branch of the Fruits' Bearing Bank, and were payable to Nobody, and signed "Tatty Ad Am All." There wa* a sketch of two boys with their fingers pointing from their noses. The young trickster's profit was probably about ss. He could easily cover e.ght ''pitches" in an hour, and assuming that ho adopts an eight-hour day, he could make £16 a day.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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196PENNY CHEQUES. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14841, 5 December 1913, Page 7
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