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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 231, 1 December 1916, Page 6 (Supplement)

FOOL'S GOLD. WHY HK MATMMKD THK WIDOW A chemistry professor at the University of Kansas tolls tliis story of a (jowly-looking man who stole noiselessly into a clifinift's olfi-o and eloped 1 Indoor behind liim. "Kin n 11yilorly hoar what I .-ay mi here!-" lie asked, anxiously. " Not a soul," tlio chemist fissured liini. Whereupon Iho ilia") produced a |i,n !;a«re, carefully wrapped, and handed it to tlio chemist, with the query, "What is this stuff, anyway?" After fxaminiiiK the contents, tlio chemist replied, "Why, that is iron pyrites, commonly known as fool's gold." "Whit's it worth!'" asked the seedv (vile-,. "Oh. :■ 1 >o'll fifteen shillings a fon in carlo.'d lots." "Just inv luck." r-xelairned the f|iie-.'-tioner. ""Blest if T ain't the hicrcest fool in the world. I found a lot of that i Maft' on a widd''r's firm, an' went an' married the widcter."