Show I PIECES PIECE OF EIGHT MAYBE PLUNDER OF PIRATES IS FOUND Laborers Laborer's PI Pick Uncovers cover s Pewter Pewter Pewter Pew Pew- ter Pot Full of Coins in I New Haven Against AS' the crumbling foundation wall all of oC a n. house In Meadow Mcadow street two thrillIng thrilling thrilling thrill thrill- ing centuries old struck the pick of Joseph Josoph Josoph Jo- Jo soph seph a So poor laborers while making maltIng mak malt ing excavations at New Haven Conn recently Clint Clink Clink Clink Aha What was that This time timo he bent feverishly of ot course to his work worl Ills His oyes oos were all alight ht with a a. strange moving moving- Interest Ho was In the tho cellar and there was no ono one else around to to witness the stirring spectacle that was swiftly developing Clink Clink Clink Ho lie dropped his pick and burrowed with his hands His nervous fingers scooped up tho the hard resisting dirt In hea heavy clouds cloud his hands were cut and bruised by bJ the small Jagged ell stones but ho he paid no heed Three feet down he must go 10 and It was hard tear soul ing leg work but he felt no exhaustion a lively breeze fanned his burning temples He lie could hear a a. parrot warbling warbling- In n tho distance or perhaps It wasn't war war- bling And then ho he c came me upon It It-an It an old colored pot pewter r pot filled to the top of ot tho the opening with yes yes that's right right pieces of or eight Those on top were covered covered cov cov- ered with verdigris below thc they gut glit wildly e excited counted them In all thero there were 1700 Their faces bore bor the Inscription Corolus Carolus Fourth Dol Grat 1790 an and their reverse Tin II pana Et Ind Rex Hex 8 S It II F. F M M. The news quickly spreading drew hundreds of ot hunters fortune-hunters to the scene U fighting for the coins coln A riot was In progress when the police came said that where the house stands was wae once tho shore and that years of or development havo pushed the w water back thus making It appear I that the gold is tainted However ile doesn't nt mind Now lew Now York World |