Experimenting with Human Nature.
An old gentleman, evidently a gatherer of statistics, but a kindly face that shaded oft to something like philanthropy about the edges, stood at the Junction gazing abstractedly down the street. Suddenly he stepped up to a gentleman who was waiting a cable train, and, touching him lightly on the shoulder, said : ‘ Excuse me, bub did you just drop a §2O gold piece ?’ at the same time holding out in his hand a coin of the denomination mentioned.
The gentleman questioned looked a moment at the coin, assumed a look of excitement, made a hasty search of his pockets, and said : * Why, so I did, and I hadn’t missed it, 9 holding out an eager hand.
The old man slowly drew out a notebook and said : * I thought so. 9 He then took the name and address of the loser, and, dropping the coin in his pocket, turned away. * Well, 9 said the other, ‘do you want it all as a reward ?’
*O, I did not find one, 9 said the benevolent old man, * but it struck me that it* a large city like this there must be a good deal of money lost, and upon inquiry I find that you are the thirty-first man who haft, lost a S2O gold piece this very morning^'
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 481, 18 June 1890, Page 3
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219Experimenting with Human Nature. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 481, 18 June 1890, Page 3
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