Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1884-05-01
A Lawyer Yicfimized.

While on his way to Lancaster, via
the Chicago and Northwestern railroad,
last Tuesday, Attorney W. L. Hodson
was approached by young man on the
train, who was carelessly chinking a
handful of pennies. Hodson asked
what he was doing with them, and the
young man replied that they were some
rare coins that he had been collecting.
Some pleasant conversation followed,
when another nice young man came up,
and noticing the pennies, said he could
perform nice trick with those pennies,
and asked the gentlemen if they had
ever seen it. They had not, and so he
produced one dice and an ordinary dice
box with q very small hole in the bot
tom. The pennies were stacked in a
pile and the dice then placed on top of
them, with the six up, and then the dice
box was nicely adjusted over it all; and
the young man said that he could take
broom straw and put it through the
little hole in the bottom of the box. and
turn the dice over so that the ace would
be up. HodsOn remarked that it was
ga little difficult, but still it might be
DONE" Then the young man went into
the baggage car to get broom straw,
when the other very nice young man
suggested to the lawyer that they lift up
the box and remove the dice. Then he
lifted up the box, and the lawyer
snatched the dice, his conscience it APP
pears not troubling him about the inno-
cent young man who had gone in quest
of straw, and of whose absence Hod-
son and his friend were taking advan-
tage. Then the young man returned
with the broom straw, and, of course,
all unconscious of the cruel trick that
had been played on him during his alb
sence, he put the broom straw through
the hole, moved it around, and declared
that there Twas an ace up" Then the
other nice young man smiled and winked
at the lawyer, and the lawyer smiled
and winked at the nice young man, and
turning to the young man with the
| broom straw told him that he ''dassen't
bet there was an ace up under that box"
The young man replied he would .be-
cause he could do it nine times out of
ten," and he suggested that they bet
small amount. But the lawyer had too
thing worth the while.'' The bet was
finally arranged. and the young man
took hold OF the box to lift it, while Hold
son smiled and winked at the other nice
young man. Then the box was care
fully lifted off of the pennies, and be-
hold, there was the dice and the ace up.
The lawyer says that he could hardly
trust his eyes when he saw it, and it
seemed as though the pile Of pennies
were diminished. Then the lawyer
sighed and said he ''didn't see how that
was DONE" and his friend, the nice
young man who had suggested the Ia
king of the dice off while the other
young man was gone for the straw, he
sighed too and said he couldn't see
through it," and then some of the pas
Sengers who had been interested look
ers-on. all smiled, AMI somehow our
| friend Hodson felt warm and concluded
that he'd 60 into the baggage car and
smoke, and be promised the Chicago and
Northwestern boys that they should .sall
smoke nice ten-cent cigars after this -
GdleRa Gazette.
From the reading of the above very
highly colored narrative. one would in
fer that the Galena lawyer had been
"feecedn out of an extraordinary
amount of his hard-earned savings.
The object THE HERALD has in copying
this article is to make plain the facts in
the case and to show that lawyers, some
of them. at least, are not too sharp for
a couple of mice young men," These
mice young men, did play the trick on
the Galena lawyer, but the stakes
were a cigar, which. at last accounts,
the mice young men, had not received
as reward for the little education they
had bestowed upon the Galena lawyer.