A RICH "FIND"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 147, 11 March 1918, Page 4

A RICH "FIND"

LONDON Cm' MAN'S STROKE OF LUCK. An automatic machino for the sale of butterscotch, chocolate, cigarettes, and matches lurked in an out-of-the-way cornor at one of the London railWily termini when a wealthy city man happened upon it one morning lyHo wanted a match to light his cigar. Ho put a penny in the slot and drew out a box of wax vestas. He doted absent-mindedly, as ho might have dono in the spacious days when nintcheß took their proper place in the scheme of things. But Mio sight of tlio little fai; wax vestas brought him back with dramatic suddenness to the grim realities of tho present. The machine was full of matches 1 Ho glanced furtively around, and plunged his hand into his pocket for coppers. Eagerly ho put penny after penny into the willing machine and stuffed the pocket of his sable-lined overcoat with boxes of matches. Nine pennies more were all he had. Ho dashed to tho. bookstall to get change. In his excitement he failed to observe a seedy man who had heen enviously watching him. On his return with thirty pennies he found this man hard at his own game. "Half a momont," said the seedy man as the city man remonstrated. "I only want four, more." At that moment the maohiue was exhausted. The last box had been givon. "Anvhow, I've got 14," the seedy man cliuckled. "And I only captured 10—confound if!" exclaimed the city man. "You can have my lot at twopence a box," said the seedy man. "Half a crown," said the other, geuoiously. And so tho bargain was struck. —"Daily Mail."