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Show Had Been There Himself. - One of our citizens was going home at a late hour recently, when he was suddenly confronted by a footpad, who with pistol pointed at his head, demanded his money. The citizen assured the fellow that he had no money, that he had "been to a fair." Before he could say more the rascal dropped his pistol, put it in his pocket, and presently took out his wallet, and crushing something into the citizen's hand, said, in grief-broken accents, as he turned on his heel, "Been to a fair? Poor fellow! Take that - I wish it was more." He was soon lost in the night. Upon approaching a street lamp, the citizen found that the miscreant had given him a ten-dollar bill. Verily, one touch of nature makes the whole world kin. - Boston Transcript. |