GOOD LUCK.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 20, 24 January 1881, Page 4

GOOD LUCK.

Ez9lof, a French soldier, who recently fouud £26,C00 which M. Pages lost in the Northern Railway station in P^fSs, hßg communicated to the Coorrier de l'Aiene the particulars attendtiat on hia. good fortune. They are very interesting (ihe Daily Neios remarks), and show how some tnea are born to fortune, some achieve fortune, and some have fortune trust upon them. Ezelot was walking through the roilway station with two comrades, when they noticed on the floor a packet wrapped in a ttewgpaper. They kicked it along before them for some distance, and when Ezelot was getting into (be trcio, going home on short leave, one of bis comrades^, picking Up the packet, thrust it into tho canvas forage beg slung at bis side, Ezelot going on hie way, without haviDg perceived the little pleasantry. Arrived at Neuilly, where his parents live, bis mother emptying the forage bag, discovered the bundle, and thinking it was a packet of old newspapers, put it on the table in ihe kitoluD. Tbore it remained for four or five days, till a married sister celling io and seeing the packft,was moved by unwoutad curiosity. Opening it, she discovered documents representing £26,C00, the loss of which M. Pages bad advertissd throughout Europe The European papers ure not, however, rev,' at Neuilly, where the Courricr de I'Aisuo doubtless has it bII Us own way. Tho soldier and his puren'.s, not knowing what else to do, fdlowed ihe provincial Frenchman's instinct, and had recourse to the Muire. This functionary communicating with Paris, speedily brought down M. Pages, who, gratefully paying the promised reward of £1000, went off with bis oddlyrecovered treasure. It would be an interesting supplement to ihe narrative if we could have a record of the feolinga of the soldier who thrust (he packet upon Ezelot when he beard the sequel to the little joke.