HE HUMORED HIM.
A Now York stock broker, who was on his way to Buffalo last week, observed that one of his fellow-passengers was closely regarding him, and after a time the man came over and asked, "Didn't I see you in Chicago in 18791" The broker wasn't in Chicago that year, but, thinking to humor the stranger, he replied in the affirmative. " Don't you remember handing a poor devil a half dollar one night in front of the Tremontf "I do." "Well, I'm the chap. I was hard up, out of work, and about, to commit suicide. That money made a new man of me. By one lucky shift and another I am now worth 25,000 dollars." "Ah! glad to hear it." And now I want you to tako 5 dollars in place of that 50 cents,- I cannot feel easy until the dobtis paid." The broker protested and objected, but finally, just to humor the man, took his 20 dollar bill and gave him back 15 dollars. The stranger soon withdraw, and everything might have ended then and there if the broker, on reaching Buffalo, hadn't ascertained that the " twenty" was a counterfeit, aud that he was 15 dollars out of pocket.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 19 April 1884, Page 4
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204HE HUMORED HIM. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1664, 19 April 1884, Page 4
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