WHAT A CENT GROWS TO.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 363, 27 April 1889, Page 8

WHAT A CENT GROWS TO.

Acentseem* of Hitle valup, butif if is only doubled a few time 5 ?, it » rows to a msirvelons smn. A yonna; l:nly in Portland caught h ■!• father in n very rash promise, by n knowledge of this fact on her part. She modestly proposed tli.it if: htr father would five her only ono cent on one day, and double the amount on each successive day foi jn^t one month, she would pledyv lu-ist'ir never to ask of him another cent of mnn<-y as lonu as ever she lived. Piteifiiiuiliiis, not stopping to run over the figures in his head, and not supposing it would amount to a huge sum, was glad to accent the offer at once, thinking it also a favourable opportunity to include a po* il>le marriage dowry in thefutuie. On the twenty-fifth cUy he became «t<-;itly alauned, lest it' he c implied with his own acceptance he inijiht bo obliged to be ' declared a bankrupt on his own petition.' But on the thirtieth day the youna; girl demanded only the pretty little sum of 5,3G8,709d, 12c. The astonished merchant was only too happy to cancel the claim by advancing a handsome cash pavmont for his folly in allowing himself to give a bond— for his word he considered as good a^ his bond— without noticing the consideration therein expressed, and by promising to return to the old custom of advancing smaller sums daily until otherwise ordeied. Oui antlnnotical reporter has be^n figuring on it,' and says that if tho old i gentleman had fulfilled his piomise, his daughter would have had, upon the receipt !of the thirtieth payment, the Bnug little sum of 10,436,517 d, 43e— Good Cheer.

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