The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-01-10

whose proprietor he had played similar
game.
"My daughter said he, as he went in,
"asked me to get her three yards of calico.
Have you anything good in that way?"
"Yes," answered the storekeeper
GLOW much is it yard?"
"Twenty cents"
"Is not that little dear?"
"No, on the contrary; you will not get
ii as cheap anywhere else
"Well, then, give me three yards"
Sam took it, paid for it with his boz
gus-ten-dollar bill, and left the store with
calico 'tor his daughter" and nine dol
lars and forty cents of good money in his
pocket
Meanwhile Rugg had altered his dress,
beard and hat so that Sam could not rccog-
nize him. lie also, as he fell into Sans
road, feigned to be somewhat intoxicated.
GLOW are you getting along old fellow p
| said Rugg, in II stammering. "Where arc
you going?"
Sam stopped. They gossiped for little
while, and then went off together.
Rugg asked Sam what he had in his lit
tie parcel. "Calico for my daughter, which
| have Just bought in that store said Sam
looking backward at the place. Upon which
Rugg suddenly remembered that he had tC
take some needles and thread to his cold
woman" He took a good ten dollar 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 Rugg two counterfeit five-dollar bills,
for, thought he, the follow is so drunk, he
will not know bad note from good one
Rugg now begged Sam to go to the store
with him, then they would go on together
and, as they set off, Rugg noticed, rs if fol
the first time, Sans stick.
"What a curious stick" he stammered
And so saying, he took il out of Sans hand
looked at it on all sides and examined it tC
see if the large top unscrewcd. 1t did; he
screwed ii off, and found that in side a strin
was fastened.
Sam was now on thorns bnt he was
cunning fellow and knew how to contro
himself
Rugg pulled out the string (Which had d
knot at the lower end and ont fell little
roll and then another, till all to.
gether there were twelve rolls of five ant
ten dollar bills.
Rugg, who still pretended to be drunk
laughed aloud apparently at the quantit,
of money he had pulled out; while San
was confounded and hardly knew what t.
say.
"Tlallo you are rich. old fellow, very
rich,' cried Rugg.
Sam collected his notes together again.
''Do you think they are good ones = asRct
Sam, soon recovering himself.
Rugg looked ut the notes and replied
Eyes. indeed, they are all good" Will,
he had noticed at a glance that they wer,
all new counterfeits of the kind most recent
ly put into circulation.
sgTt IL apripuq ~ cai, at lo,
ried that stick more than twenty years.
belonged once to my father, who is dead
and / never in my life knew that the hcac
would unscrew."
"Twenty years" stammered Rugg; "ant
you have had it all the timc?"
"Yes,-it Encver been out of my pos
session."
sit seems to me-, remarked Rugg, still
feigning drunkenness, "that your note
were not printed at that timer"
That was delicate questions; but San
went on as if he did not hear it; and whel
he gathered together all his notes, he said
"You wanted to 90 and buy something il
the store; let us go and do it, and then W.
will move along together
$50 we will" said Rugg, making an eff
fort to stand on his legs"
So they went to the store.
Whey they had entered, Rugg asked til,
storekeepcr whether the old man had bOugh
any calico of him.
'!Ycs, about an hourago answered tn
storekeeper.
"And what did he pay for it,"
with this notc," replied the man show
ing Rugg the note he had received from
Sam.
1T is bad one, remarked Rugg, quiet
"Bad," cried Sam, "that is not possible
Then will very soon take it back to thu
place | received it from. am an old MAJ
and have not very good sight, it not
shame to cheat an old man like that"
Saying this, he wiped the tears from hi
eyes Then he looked about in his pocket
and brought out ten good one dollar bills
and laid them down, apparently very nue.
enraged at being cheated He was on tn
point of going away, when Rugg, who nov
seemed to be sober again, asked him whetl
err all his money was like this, which to hin
seemed closely to resemble that which h
had in stick, to which Sam replied; "In
deed, / cannot say for my eyes are yer
bad A."
Now them" said Rugg, "let us go owe
to the hotel and have something to drink :;
to which Sam agreed, although he wishe
Rugg at Jericho.
Arrived at the hotel, Rugg called the land
lord on one side and asked for the ten dol
lar bill Sam had paid him. The landlor
gave it, and Rugg at once said to him =
"Did this man give you this notc?"
eyes, he is the man who gave it to me.
"What did you give him in changer"
Mine dollars and half"
In moment Rugg took ELAINE Sam H.
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