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Show His Diamond a Bargain. An amusin'j: story is told in connection connec-tion with the early days of Sir J. B. Robinson, the South African million-, aire, who has been fiurinit prominently prominent-ly in the London law courts. lie was crossing the Vaal river in ISC9. looking for diamonds. He asked the natives if they had seen any "pretty "pret-ty stones." and at last he found a man who had a diamond. It was a small stone, and the prospector offered $"o for it, but he refused to part with it. He increased his offer to $150, but still the man refused. "What will you take for it?" he was asked. "Twenty goats," was the firm reply: "nothing less." "I sent off to the nearest farm," says Sir J. B. Uobinson, in telling the story, "and bought 20 goats for $37.50, and so .. got possession of my first diamond." Philadelphia Public Ledger. |