A TOO-CONFIDING FATHER.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1335, 2 May 1885, Page 3

A TOO-CONFIDING FATHER.

A cent seems of little value, but if it is only doubled a few times it grows to a marvellous sura. A young lady in Portland caught her father in a very rash promise by a knowledge of this fact on her part. She modestly proposed that if her father would give tier only one cent on one day and double the amount on each successive day for just one month she would pledge herself never to ask of him another cent as long as she lived. Paterfamilias, not stopping to run over the figures in his mind, and not supposing that it would amount to a large sum, was glad to accept the offer at once, think-

ing it also a favorable opportunity to include a possible marriage dowry in the future. On the twenty-fifth day he became greatly alarmed, lest, if he complied with his own accepiance, he might be obliged to be “declared a bankrupt on hi a own admission.” But on the thirtieth day the young girl demanded only the pretty little sum of 5,368,709d01. 12c. The astonished merchant was only too happy to cancel the claim bv advancing a handsome cash payment for his folly in allowing himself to give a bond—for his word he considered as good as his bond —without noticing the consideration therein expressed, and by promising to return to the old custom of advancing small sums daily until otherwise ordered. —Good Cheer.