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Show As You Like It. The aged, worn, and guileless-look ing individual sauntered up to the desk of the clerk in a southern hotel, and quavered, as he drew from his wallet a yellow bill, "Friend, will you kindly give me five silver dollars in exchange for this memento of the good old confederate days?" The clerk glanced quickly at. the proffered bill, smiled to himself, tossed it into the drawer, and counted out the five dollars. When the guileless looking individual had gone, the clerk examined the bill he had just taken in. He found that it was, or was not. a good U. S. bill. Either way you take It, It makes a story. It has never been decided which Is the better way Puck. |