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Show LITTLE SHORT 0F M1BACLE If Story it True, This Englishman' Middle Name Must Surely Be Qood Luck. Lying on a path 18 months a leather leath-er wallet containing over $140 was found by the loser after being unnoticed by hundreds that passed each day, writes un English correspondent. A Ulnlng-car conductor on the. Great Weitern railway, who lUcs at Suthall, loft home one morning In Juh, 1020, nnd went to Old Oak Commos, near Acton, where tho dining cars are 'stored. From Acton station ho walked through a private path used by tho railway staff nnd leading to Old Oak carriage sheds. Later ho went to Paddtngton station and worked the dining-car ttnln to Plymouth. When he returned to London he discovered that ao had lost his wallet lie had not the faintest Idea whero or bow he had lost It, nnd although ho made Inquiries In-quiries ho could find no trace of It. The other morning he walked tip the some prlvato path on his way to work, as he has done scores of times; since he lost the wallet, when ho stopped for a moment, nnd looking on the bare ground Just at the sld of the path ho was amazed to see his wallet lying there, lie picked It up, and was further amazed to find that the contents con-tents had not been touched. Tho wallet wal-let was weather-beaten and the notes were soiled as though they had been, soaked in rain, but when he found them they were dry, Tho path is used by hundreds of men every day. |