Show GOT EVEN WITH THE CLERK how a country geneat made the hotel A guest at a certain london hotel having of pickpockets pick pockets to the cerkan clr kan d ili him a 20 be atit in safe saya johnc cuts dayt vas thunderstruck when the bunc conry to whom he had given the ii oney coolly denied any recollection tl Q ra atter whereupon the coun hrynkin ent to a lawyer get another 20 note said thelah y er and go accompanied by a friend back to the hotel apologize to the clerk tor bour mistake soy its was a defection memory Attribute iU to absentmindedness absent mindedness in the foutty foUt tj th anyta fied in r wow lawyer go back alonie to the clerk and ask him for your 20 note knowing that your friend saw him receive it he will give you back he second one then take your friend with you next day approach the clerk ask him boldly far that 20 note and ai there was no witness to your receipt of the second note he will be fenced to retarn that also the ruse proved completely successful much to the gratification of the countryman |