Some years ago there were a number of army officers stopping at a hotel in Washington. Among them were a Captain Emerson and a Captain Jones. Emerson and Jones used to have a good deal of fun together at the table and elsewhere. One day, at tho dinner tabic, when tho dining hall was well filled, Captain Jones finished his dinner first, got up, and walked almost to tho dining-hall door, when Emerson called to him in a loud voice : " Hallo, Captain ! See here —I want to speak to you a minute." The Captain turned and walked back to the table, and bent over him, when Emerson whispered, " I wanted to ask you how far you would have gone if I had not spoken to you." The Captain never changed a muscle, but straightened up and put his fingers into his vest pocket, and said, " Captain Emerson, I don't know of a man in the world I would rather lend five dollars to than you ; but the fact is I haven't a cent with mo today"—and he turned on his heel and walked away. Emerson was the colour of half a dozen rainbows ; but he had to stand it. '
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3065, 23 April 1881, Page 4
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