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Show A GREAT SAVING. PH Here is un amusing tnlo from l-laH Germany about n man who thought H ho was n very clever financier, and l yet docs not seem to havo had quite H as much sense as a boy who knows H enough to go in when it rains: H A bargo was being towed up tho i Nccknr from Mannheim to Ileidel- H berg, and a shoemaker on the tramp, IH witli a largo knapsack on his back, !i camo up nnd asked the bargemun H 1 how much ho would chargo him for i a ride on tho boat. Tho bargeman, g . who was a bit of a wag, replied: SH "Fifteen kiaizcrs; but if you help f pull, only six." Tho shoemaker H thought tho matter over for a minute or two, and, calculating that H ho would save nine kreuzers by H helping to pull, threw his bag into tho boat and cheerfully tugged at M tho rope all tho way to Heidelberg, IH , when he forked out tho six kreuzors H I and shouldered his knapsack again. IH |