East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-01-10
4 Stocking Full Of Bank Notes.

mp the sum Of eighty seven pounds, ten,
in notes of the bank of Ireland. As a
sure means Of securing this valuable prop
erty, he put it in the foot of an old stock
ing, and buried it in his garden, where
bank note paper could't fail to keep dry
and como out, when wanted in the best
preservation. After leaving his treasure
in this excellent place of deposit for some
months, il occurred to the depositor to
take look at il, and see how it was get
ting on. He found the stocking foot APP
pareutly full of the fragments of mildew
and broken mushroom. No other shadow
OF a shade Of eighty seven pound, ten.
In the midst OF his dispair the man had
the sense not to disturb the ashes OF his
property. He took the stocking foot in
his hand, poste1 off to the Bank in Dub
lin, entered it one morning as soon as it
was open, aud staring at the clerk with
a most extraordinary absence Of all ex-
preston in his face said;
"Ah! look at that, sir. Can ye do
anything for me?" .n
what do you call this? said the clerk.
Eighty sivin pounds, tin, praise the
Lord, as I'm sinner Ohone There
was twenty as was paid to me by Mr..
Phalin ODowd, sir, tin as was changed
by Pat Reilly, and five as was owned by
Tim; and Ted Gamer says to ould Phil
lips
We'll Never mind old Phillips
You have done it, my friend
'Oh, Lord, sir, and it's done it | have,
most conplate Oh, good luck to you,
sir, can you do nothing for me?'
Il don't know what's to be done with
such mess as this. Tell me, first Of all,
what you put in the stocking, you un-
fortunate blunderer. a.fYt
ooh, yis, sir, and tell you true as if it
was the last word had to spake entire
", and the Lord be good to We, and Ted
Conner says he to ould Phillips, rcgarden
the five as was OWN by Tim, and not in
cludcn of the tin which was changed by
Pat Reilly
'You didn't put Pat Reilly or old Phil
lips, into the stocking, did you?'
is it Pat, or ould Phillips as was ever
the valley of eighty sivin pounds, tin, lost
and gone, and includen the five as was
owned by Tim and Ted Conner
'Then tell me what you did put in the
stocking, and let me take it down. And
then hold your tongue, if You can, and
go your way, and come back tomorrow.
The particulars of the notes were taken
without any reference to ould Phillips,
who could not, however, by any means,
he kept out of the story, and the man
departed When he was gone, the stock
ing foot was shown to the chief engraver
of the notes, who said that if any body
could settle 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 this
department Of the bank, but should be
put away under lock and key, and if his
sons ingenuity should enable him to dis
cover from these ashes what notes had
really been put in the stocking, and the
list should tally, the man shonld he paid
the lost amount. TO this prudent pro-
posal the Bank Of ireland readily Assem-
ted, being extremely anxious that the
man should not he loser, but of course,
decming it essential to beprotected from
imposition.
The son readily undertook the delicate
commission proposed to him. He de
tachcd the fragments from the stocking
with the utmost care, on the point of II
pcnknife; laid the whole gently in basin
of warm water, and presently saw them,
to his delight, begin to unfold and ex-
pand like flowers. By and by he began
to tease them with cameps hair pencil,
and the penknife got the various morsels
separated before him, and began to piece
them together. The first piece laid down
was fairly recognized by practiced eye
as a bit of the left hand bottom corner of
twenty pound note; then bit of a five;
then of a ten; then more bits of a twenty;
then more bits of five and ten; then
another left hand bottom corner of a
twenty--so there were two twenties-
and so on, until to the admiration and
astonishment of the whole bank, he noted
down the exact notes of which it had
been composed. Upon this, as he wished
to see and divert himself, with the man
on his return, he provided himself with a
bundle Of corresponding new, clear, rust
ling notes, and awaited his arrival.
He came exactly as before, with the
same blank staring face, and the same
inquiry. Can you do any thing for me,
sir?
WELL said our friend, Il don't know
May be | can do something. But | have
taken great deal of pains, aud. lost a
great deal Of time, and | want to know
what you mean to give meY
rs it give, sir? Thin is there anything
wouldn't give for my eighty siver
pounds, tin sir? And its murdered | All
ould Phillps.'
Never mind him. There were tive
twcntics, were they notf'
OH holy mother, sir, there was
Two most Elegant twcnties, aud TED
Conner-a aud Phalin-which Reilly
lie faltered and stopped, as our friend
with mush ostentatious rustling Of th'
crisp paper, produced a new twenty, anc
then the other twenty, and then a ten
and then five, and so forth. Meanwhile
the man, occasionally murmuring an ex
clamstion of surprise, or a psotestatiol
of gratitude, but gradually becoming