Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1874-02-27

EYES," answered the stOrekccpcr.
"lIOw much is it yarl!"
''Twenty cents"
'.Is not that Il little Lcar!7
"No, on the contrary, you will moi
get it as cheap anywhere else"
"Wcll, then give me three yards"
Sam took it; paid for it with another
bogus ten dollar bill, and left the store
with his calico 11for his daughter" "a.nd
nine dollars and forty cents OF good
money III his pocket.
Meanwhile Rugy Lad altered his
dress. beard and hat so that Sam could
not recognize him. lie also, as he fell
into Sans road, fefgncd to be some
what intoxicated.
"How are you getting along, did
fellow:" said Rugg, III a stammcrlns
voice. "Wherc are you gonlS:'
Sam stopped. They sossiprcd for q
little while, and then went together.
Rugg asked Sam what he had in his
little parcel. "Calicc for my daughter,
which have just bought III that store >
said Sam, looking backward at Tie
place. Vi pon which Rugg suddenly
remembered that he had to take some
needles and thread to ''old woman"
He took good ten-dol!ar bill out OF
his pocket and asked Sam if he could
not change it. Sam gladly seized such
!, good opportunity to do business, and
he gave Rugy two counterfeit tive-dcl-
lar bills, for, thought he, the fellow is
drunk. he viii lot know lad note
frc m a good one.
Rugg now begged Sam to go to the
store with him, then they wonld so OIL
together; and, as they set OF, RugS
noticed. as if for the first time, Sans
stick.
.What curious stick" he stam-
lncrcd. And SD saying, lie took it out
Of Sans hand. looked at it Oh all sides
and examined it TO see il the large top
1t did; he screwed it OF,
and found that inside string was
f.. .stenca.
Sam was now Gil thorns, bat he was
u cunning fellow and knew no" to
ccntrol himself.
Ruyy pulled out the string (Which
had Il knot at the lower end) and out
fell a little roll OF bank notes. lie
pulled again: another little roll tsll
Dut. and then another, till altogether
there were twelve rolls Of tive and ten
do!la: bills.
Ruyy. who still pretended to bc
drunk, laughed aloud, apparently at
the quantity Of money he had pulled
put: while Sam WAS cc,ltOulldcd and
hardly knew what to say.
"ma!!o, you are rich, old fellow, very
r;c!,," cried Rugg.
SAN collected his Eotcs together
again.
"Do you think tl.ey are good ones"
asked Sam, soon recovering himself.
Rugg looked at the notes and re-
plied: "Yes, indeed, they arc good"
while lie had noticed glance that
,hey were all new cOunterfcits Of the
Kind most recently put into circulation.
"It is curious" said Sam, ~ have
carried that stick more than twenty
,ears. 1t belonged once to my father,
who is dead, and never in my life
Knew that the head would unscrew."
"Twenty years." stammered Rugg;
and you have had it all the timc!"
"Yes,-it has never been out of my
possession"
"It seems to me-" remarked Rugg,
till feigniug drukenness, "that Your
lotes were not printed at that time
That was delicate question, but Sam
vent on as if he did not hear it; and
vhcn he had gathered together all his
lotes, he said, ''You wanted to 60 and
NY something in the store; let us 60
nd do it, and then we will move along /
ogethcr."
$50 we WILL said Rugg, making an
fort to stand on his legs.
So they went to the store.
When they had entered, Rugg ask
d the store-keeper whether the old
aan bought any calico of him.
Yes. about an hour ago." answered
he store keeper.
"And with what did he pay for it,"
"With this note," replied the man,
howing Rugg the note he had re-
eived from Sam.
"It is bad one" remarked Rugg
uietly.
"Bad,n cried Sam, t1that is not pos
ible. Then l will very soon take it
ack to the place received it from. l
N an old man and have not very
ood sight. Is not shame to cheat
n old man like that"
Saying this, he wiped the tears from
is eyes. Then be looked about in his
ockets and brought out ten good one
ollar bills and laid them down, ap-
arently very much enraged at being
heated. He was on the point of 60
e away, when Rugg, who now seem
to he sober again, asked him wheth-
. all his money was like this, which
, him seemed closely to resemble that
hich he had in his stick, to which
am replied: "Indeed, l cannot say,
II my eyes are very bad"
"Now them" said Rngg, ''let us 60
ver to the hotel and have something
drink" to which Sam agreed, al
lough he wished Rugg at Jericho.
Arrived at the hotel, Rugg called
10 landlord on one side and asked for
le ten-dollar bill which Sam had paid
inn. The landlord gave it, and Rugg
once said to him: II