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Show A QUEER COCOANUT. A showman's clever dodge was discovered dis-covered recently at a fair held at Birkenhead, Bir-kenhead, England, as a result of which he was arrested and heavily fired for obtaining money under fal.e pretenses. The story told by the detectives de-tectives was that they saw a young man pay a penny for a "shy" at a co-coanut co-coanut temptingly placed on a ledge four j'ards from where he stood. Although Al-though he hit the nut with a sounding force, he failed to dislodge it. The officers then entered the stall with the intention of examining it. One of thm went to pick up the nut and was jcstled by the stall-keeper, while her assistant skillfully changed the "nut" for a genuine one. However, the officers offi-cers obtained the right article, which turned out to be a cannon ball weighing weigh-ing 12 pounds, over which cocoanut fiber had been cleverly glued, giving it the appearance of a genuine cocoa-nut. |