Show how it was wae detroit free reo A citizen doing business busine on monroe avenue was interviewed the other day dar by a man who had a family bible in hand and wanted to pan it for a dollar saw lets lets ice ace replied rep lil I tha the citizen I believe you were here several days ngo ago with your dead mothers ring and hud wanted fifty cents for it yes and previous previous to that you called hero here with your dead fil fathers thees watch 11 I did and a month ago you halted mo ma on Jef laron ton avenue and wanted a loan loam on a it locket which had been worn by y your dead slater sisters I think you are the man sir it looks to me aa as if all your family were dead 11 such is the cac as I itin am the sola survivor your dead mothers ring ring was only a washed affair if I remember only ti right t E exactly acely I tell a lie m she always ff wore oro washed rings in in preference to any other sort and your dead ei sisters locket was clear bra brass brao O so it was air ar she preferred prefer preferred rd that kind and we always humored her and your dead fathers watce I was a galvanized one I think I si youve hit it again air the old man had some queer notions and that was one and what dead member of youri family once owned this bible my NIT sir I see that many of the leaves have been torn out and others aie are stained and spoiled was that a notion of your grand grandmothers mothers it was n as she was queer but when slit sh e read her bible she liked to skip from the fifth verse in luke to td the sixteenth verse in john and she discolored colored dit the pays to rest her r eyes while readings read reading ingv and what cranky notion have you got asked the citizen n I think lend me fifty cents on that bible wa was the ille reply well where one member of your fiti family lily made a MIS mistake akke I believe you yott are a fraud sir au and d ill bitoy have you arre arrested ted sir sirl your words colv convince i nce me that tou you are no gIntle gentleman man good da dav V ile lie fell ater a chair and nearly kicked the stove over in his haste to get got omand after all left hia his bible on the table it will be handed him any time he returns for it A r T |