The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1899-08-29

know l sAly bought mine week ago. |
| presume it is the newest style, and |
William has none yet. He means to get
a cheaper one. So today. while l was
in the office, in walked an old mana
seritable old gentleman.
Sir, says he, 4 am a man who
does not find himself getting on vel!
and am forced to try going about among
the gentlemen. | am tailor. / have
made an expensive overcoat for a gen.
tleman. Ten pounds was the price, and
he did not pay me. So when he had it
OIL his back one day l said, "Sir, pay
me- - And he said, "You wait until
am ready.
every well, sir, 1 will wait. But I
see there is button loose 1 will fasten
it for you. 1 have silk and needle here.
"'Ah, said he, Just like you to
leave it that way, and off comes the
| coat.
"'You shall have it again the next
| day after never" said l. So away I
walked would sell it for Sc, which is
very cheap. /.
81 looked at the coat. which he un-
folded from a paper.
6 Guess it will fit my son, said l.
'I'll try it on. and we'll see.
$50 it did.
| Then, said l. now, you see, do
this to make up to you, as far as can.
for that other fellow rascality.
s'You are an honest gentleman
said he 'and l will repay you by a
great bargain l must sell my solid sill
yer spoons I meant to melt them, not
to expose. my poverty, but you shall
have the whole dozen for the trif1e of
e.
"Well, of course, jumped at that
Mr.. Christy here laid the spoons on
the table-"and took out e10.
"But he had something else which
! he took from under his arm.
''My wife is trying to sell her
shawl, he said.
"Well, looked at the shawl he shook
} out of its folds.
"'You shall have it for e1, as a sam
pie Of my generosity, he said, with a
tear in his eye.
"Well, 1 knew you'd like it, my
dear. 1t looks like one used to admire
you in when courted you-red center,
: cashmere border" and Mr.. Christy
| shook out the folds-the old shawl Mrs
5 Christy had exchanged for the vases
| that morning She knew that at once
l she could not mistake it. But as she
looked at her husband, beaming ant
twinkling with good humor, she coul(
, not bear to utter the truth outrigh
and tell how completely he had beer
taken in.
''Six pounds for the coat and 60 fo
the spoons, he said merrily, "and 6
: for the shawl, and this holding out
81 note-''is all l have out of my 81
: motel Poor old fellow The last poun
; he had in the world, he said. Hello
Q What is this?' Mr.. Christy put on hi
|, glasses and looked at.the note. "You
u name is written on it in red ink, m
y dear-'Caroline Christy.' Ahl This
o counterfeit. Why. what in all th
10 world'-
"Oh' cried William, at this me
g ment entering the door. "That's th
l. note mother took long while ago
" counterfeit y
le ''And it has come back to me, sal
MI. Cnr1SIy. Ou never passed.
le Caroline Perhaps some servant took j
What fool was not to put on m
"a glasses when the man gave it to mel'
Il 1--WE both need spectacles, said Mr.
he Christy. my dear. neither of us ca
1T laugh at the other We are both con
N pletely sold" And when she had to-
L her story it became very. plain to all
e. them that the peddler who had stole
the coat, spoons and the counterfe
IS note from Mrs. Christy had by chan
9d entered Mr.. Christy's Office in his bus
ness travels; that he had sold him bat
his own stolen coat and his own plat
lie spoons under the guise of wonderf
K bargain in solid silver.
Happily the Christy family were tt
ne erably well off and could afford to laus
IS at the farce they had taken so prom
nent a part in, and Mrs Christy declar
n she was glad to recover the shawl tn
en- her husband remembered her wearil
ed during the happy period of their coul
ry ship days.
od A member of the police force call
OF shortly after to state that the thi
IL could not be traced and was no dou
nd very cunning fellow. But the Chris
as family did not confide their joke to t
Id worthy officer. They had the wisdc
or to keep it in the family.-London Spa
at Moments.