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Show THERE WAS NO STfSKtl fo flT' Bat He Had Abundant Reason Neverth less to Bo Suspicious. There was a bright new 50 cent piect lying on the pavement on Jefferson avenue, av-enue, near Griswold street, when bow backed man with a satchel cam along from the depot. He saw the coin while he was yet 20 feet away, and he made a sudden forward rush to get it The movement was almost instantly checked, however, and he walked slowly slow-ly forward and baoked to the curbstone and stood there and gazed at the coin Tith a foxy look ou his countenance. In about a minute a pedestrian came up, Eaw the coin and reached for it and put It in his pocket. Observing the attitude of the old man at the same time he turned and queried: "It didn't belong to you, did it?" "Waal, I swan!" was the reply. "What's tho matter?" ' 'This is tho queerest durned town 1 ever struck in all my life. I was coming op this street last year about this time When i saw a 50 cent piece lyin jest about here. I niado a grab fur it, fell on my nose and rolled all over and finally final-ly got up to find that a boy had a string on the money and had pulled it into that doorway. " "And so you were Ehy of this one?" "Yaas, I was shy." "And are half a dollar behind tne game.?" "Yaas, I'm half a dollar out Say, we 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. |