TWO ECCENTRIC MEN.
One day last week, as a Griswold-street lawyer had just finished tacking up a sign of *' Shut this door " "where he thought it would do the most good, an oldish man having a sour expression on his face, came upstairs. The .instant he saw the sign he said : ** All bosh, sir — all bosh. I never pay any attention to such signs. " "But other people do," replied the lawyer. " Let 'em do so, then. lam just eccentric enough to leave your door open when I go out." And so he did. He walked once or twice around the room, made a few inquiries, and left the door wide open as he walked out. When he had reached the street, a boy overtook him, and asked him to return to the room on im-
porfant business. He climbed back up the stairs, and the lawyer asked him : " Did you leave your gold-headed cane here ?" "No, Sir — hero it is," replied the caller as he held it up. "Ah! so it is. I was just eccentric enough to think that this stove poker was your gold-headed cane. All right — no harm done — good-by !" When the stranger went down stairs he left tbe print of his heels on every step.— "Detroit Free Press."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 27, 1 February 1881, Page 4
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