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Show A Qti:.-cr Turn of I'orluno. A certain Mr. Duvies, who began life as a sawyer and carpenter, and whose honesty and industry carried him on to wealth as a railway eontructor, sunk all his money in boring for coal, no coal being found. Then he called a large meeting of his miners, and told them that he hail spent the earnings of his life in the speculation and would have to abandon it. Holding up a half-crown, half-crown, he declared that that was all he had left of forty thousand pounds, which he had sunk in the mine. A fellow fel-low called out: "And we'll have that, too." ''So you shall!" cried Davies, and threw the coin among them. This bit of desperation so didighted the men that they straightway determined deter-mined to go to work again, wagis I or no wages. In a few days theyfound , excellent coal, and plenty of it, und Davies was again a rich man. I |