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 mdfct good k an oldish man having a sour expression on his face, came up stairs. The instant he saw the sigh he said : - "All bosh, Sir —all bosh. I never pay any attention to such signs." ••Jftit other people do," replied the laj^er. Let 'em do so then. lam just eccentric enough to leave tbe door open when I go out." ■ Arid so he did. He walked once or twice round the room, made a few inquiries, and left the door wide open as he went out." When he had reached the street, -he was overiaken by a boy, who asked him to return on.inaportant business. He climbed back up the stairs, and tbe lawyer'asked him : "Did you leave your gold-headed cane hereP" "No, sir—here 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 day." When the stranger went downstairs, he left the print of his heels on every step. —Detroit Free Press.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3766, 22 January 1881, Page 4
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207TWO ECCENTRIC MEN. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3766, 22 January 1881, Page 4
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