Show ANECDOTE OF curkan curran A farmer attending in a fair with a hundred pounds in his pocket rocket took k the precaution of depositing it in in the hands of the landlord of the public house at which he stopped having occasion sion slon for it shortly afterwards he resorted to mine host for payment but the landlord too deep for the countryman wondered what anat he meant and was quite sure no such sum had ever been deposited in his hands by the astonished rustic after ineffectual appeals to the recollection and finally to the honor of Bardol bardolph pir the farmer barme applied to curran for advice have patience my friend said the counsel speak to the landlord civilly tell him you have left your money with some other person take a friend with you and lodge with him another hundred in the presence of your dour friend and come to me Y ile he ld did so and returned to his legal friend and no now w I 1 cant see how I 1 am going gain t to be the better off for this if I 1 get my second hundred back again buchow but how is is that to be done go and ask him for it when he is alone said the counsel ay sir sin asking wont do im afraid L gut put at any rate never mind take my advice said the counsel do as I 1 bid you and return to me the ile farmer returned with his hundred glad to find that safely in his possession now sir I 1 must roust be content but I 1 dont see as I 1 am much better off 5 well swell then 12 sai sat said baid id the counsel now take your V our friend with you and ask the landlord for the hundred pounds your friend sav saw you leave with him biffi 11 we need not ilot add that the wily landlord found ho he had mad been taken off his guard while our honest friend returned to thank his counsel exultingly with both hundreds in his pocket t life and works of curran |