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Show WORTH THE TROUBLE IT TOOK. Hiram Needed Incentive to Qo After Lost Money. Old Hiram was known by bis neighbors neigh-bors as "easy goln1," 'with occasional lapses of native shrewdness. Ono summer evening ho was sitting on the front porch with his wife when he dropped a quarter. It rolled with fatal accuracy Into the only hole In the floor. Hiram sat looking at tb hole for several minutes. Ho appeared to be turning over In his mind a deep problem. Then he heaved a sigh: "Ain't you going to get It?" asked his wife, anxiously, "I've been thinking," he said, slowly. slow-ly. "I'd have to go rut to the barn and get the hatchet, take off thoso boards, crawl in under there In the dirt, crawl out again, and nail on the boards, and I guess It ain't 'north while. I may be going In under thero for something clso some time. The money's safe." "Well, I never!" exclaimed his wife, "anybody'd think you had money to throw to tho dogs." Hiram knew that she would nrguo until sho had tlifc last word, so ho always al-ways gave It to her at tho beginning ot tho discussion. For ten or fifteen fif-teen minutes longer ho sat gazing at tho hole. Then he got up and dropped another quarter nnd a half dollar Into It. "Why, Hiram," cried his wife, "havo you gone clean, plumb crazy?" "I've been thinking," ho replied, "that If It wasn't worth while going in 'under thero for a quarter It wob worth wlille going for n dollar." And he started for the barn to get tho hatchet. |