PRESENCE OF MIND.
Presence of mind is a valuable gift in all circumstances. Not long ago, on the arrival of a train of cars at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, a man jumped off a car and demanded of another standing on the platform thathe shouldpayhim the4odol he owed. “ I don’t owe you any 40dol,” was the reply—- “ I never saw you before.” “ Well, you pay it quick, or I’ll make you,” said the first man, brandishing a revolver, every chamber of which was loaded with powder and ball. The gentleman who was thus threatened, seeing that his assailant was either insane or intoxicated, neither ran away nor knocked the maniac down, but calmly replied,” “ Well, I haven’t got the money about me, but I know where I can get it, and if you like to go with me we’ll make it all right.” He then led the way to the police station, where the insane debt collector was taken charge of by the officers.
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Globe, Volume II, Issue 195, 23 January 1875, Page 3
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