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Show A GREAT SAVING. H I lure is .111 amusing tale from fJ Germany nbottt a man who thought l ho was u very clover financier, and -H yet docs not seem to have had qttito 9m as much sense ns n boy who knows H enough (o go in when it rains: lH A liargo was being towed up tlio 4JH ICocknr from .Mannheim to lleidel- H berg, u ml a shoemaker on the tramp, -'H with a largo knapsack on his back, Ymm camo up and asked the bargeman Imm how much he would charge him for "mmt a ride on the boat. Tho bargeman, H who was a bit of a wag, replied: &H "Fifteen kuuzcra; but if you halp pull, only six." Tho shoemaker ,H thought tho matter over for a fl minute nr two, and, calculating that H ho would save nine kreurers by - helping to pull, throw his bag into J tho boat and cheerfully tugged at H tho ropo nil tho way to Heidelberg, IH when lie forked out tho six krouzors IH and shouldered his kuapsack again. jjt |
