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BANK NOTE RESURRECTION.

The above serves as q caption to The
following recent article in Dickens
Household Words" upon Bank Note
Forgeries.o The writer states that il
was obtained from the Chief of the En-
craving and Engineering Department
of the Bank of England. We do moi
question the substantial accuracy Of
the statement:
Some years ago-in the days of thirty
shilling notes-a certain lrishnnan saved
up the sum of eighty-seven pounds ten.
in notes OF the Bank of Ireland AS a
sure means of securing this valua bic
property. he put it in the foot of an old
sticking, and buried it in his garden,
where bank note paper couldn't fail 10
keep dry, and TO come out when want
ing in the best state of preservation.
After leaving his treasure in this ex-
cellent place of deposit for some
months, It occurred TO the depositer to
take a look at it, and see how it was
getting on. He found the stocking ap-
parenfly full of the fragments OF mill
dewed and broken mushrooms. No
other shadow of shade of his trea-
sured eighty-seven pounds ten.
Tn the midst of his despair the man
had sense not to disturb the ashes of
his property. He took the stocking
foot in his hand and posted off 10 the
bank in Dublin, entered it one morn
ing ae soon as ii was opened, and staring
at the clerk with most extraordinary
absence of all expression in his face,
said:
"Ah, look at that, sir! Can ye do
anything for me 20
What do you call this?'' said the
clerk.
Eighty-seven pounds ten, praise
the Lord, as Pm sinner! Ohonei
There was twenty as was paid to me
by Phalim 0'Dowd, and a ten as was
changed by Pat Reilly, and a FIVE as
was owned by Tim: and Ted Conner,
ses he to ould Phillips
s-Well. never mind old Phillips
You have done it, my friend"
'4Oh Lord, sir, and it's done it have
most complate. Oh, good luck to you,
sir, and is it nothing at all you can do
for me %
Il don't know what is TO be done
with such mess of stuff as this. Tell
me first of all what you put in this
stocking, you most unfortunate blum
derer.p
.Oh. yes, sir. and tell you true as if
it was the last word had TO spake en-
tireiy. aud the Lord be good to you, and
Ted Conner ses he, ould Phillips. re-
garden as was owen by Tim and in
cluden of the ten which was changed
by Pat Reilly.
6 You didn't put Pat Reilly or old
Phillips into the stocking. did youan
!" Is il Pat or ould Phillips as is worth
eighty-seven pound ten lost and gone.
and includen the five as was owen by
Tim and Ted Conner 2n
Then tell me what you did put in
the stocking. and let me take it down.
And then hold your torgue if you car.
and you go your way and come back
Tomorrow
The particulars of the notes were
taken, without any reference to :. ouId
Phillips who could not. however, by
any means be kept out of the story,
and the man departed.
When he was gone, the stocking
was shown to the chief engraver of the !
notes, who said it any body could set
tie the business, his son could And
he proposed that the particulars of the
notes should not be communicated to
his son, who was then employed in his
department Of the bank, hut shonld be
PM away under lock and key; and that
II his sons ingenuity should enable him
to discover from these ashes what notes
had really been put in the stocking, !!