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Show THERE WAS ko SfilNG TO IT. But lie IIal Abundant Iteason Kevertho- less to Be Suspicious. 1 There was a bright new 50 cent piece lying on the pavement on Jefferson avenue, av-enue, near Griswold street, when a i bow backed man with a satchel came along from the depot He saw the coin j while he was yet 20 feet away, and he j made a sudden forward rush to get it ' The movement was almost instantly checked, however, and he walked slowly slow-ly forward and backed to the curbstone and stood there and gazed at the coin with a foxy look on his countenance. In j about a minute a pedestrian came up, i saw the coin and reached for it and put I it in his pocket. Observing the attitude of the old man at the same time he j turned and queried: "It didn't belong to you, did it?" "Waal, I swan!" was the reply. "What's the matter?" "This is the queerest durned town I ever struck in all my lif a I was coming up this street last year about this time when I saw a 50 cent piece lyin jest about here. I made a grab fur it, fell on my nose and rolled all over and final ly got up to nna mat a ooy naa a string on the money and had pulled it into that doorway. " .. ... "And so you were shy of this one?" "Yaas, I was shy. " "And are half a dollar behind the game?" "Yaas, I'm half a dollar out Say, are you in a hurry?" "Yes great hurry." "Wall, I'll hev to find somebody else then. I want to find a feller who'll sot down with me fur about two hours and post me up. I'm comin into Detroit once a week now, and I want to find out what's got strings to it and what's lyin around loose and kin be picked up." Detroit Free Press. |
