They all Lost It.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 25 July 1890, Page 2

They all Lost It.

A_r old gentleman, evidently a gatherer of statistics, but witb a kindly face which shaded off to something like philanthropy a Withe edg"_, was gazing abstractedly down the street. Suddenly he stepped up to a gentluman who was waiting a tram, and, touching him lightly ou the shoulder, said : " Excuse me, but did you just drop a sovereign ?" at the same time holding out in hh hand a coin ol the denomination mentioned. The gentleman questioned gazed « moment at the coin, assumed a look of excitement, made a hasty search of his pooketi . and said : " .Why, so I did, and I hadn't missed it," holding out an eager hand. The old mau slow y drew forth a note book aud said :•" I thought so." lie then took the name aud address of the loser, and dropping the coin in his po-.-ket, turned away. " Well," said the other «» do you want it all as a reward ?" " Oh. I did not find one," sa : d the benevolent old m. n, " but it struck me that in a large city like this there must he a great dea! of money lost, and upon inquiry I find you are the thirty-first man who has lost ii sovei- ign this very morning." — Tit Mits.