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Show His F0MEl! iiNsnU; PARIS Dec. 31. fBy tho Asso-Clated Asso-Clated Tress.) The ingenuity of French peasants in hiding mone has surpassed itself In the case of ' a man near Lorlent who received 0 H'OU franc note and a 500 franc note In payment for produce. He had them in the mu.XSles of his double-barreled shotgun, believing that would be the last place thieves would search for money. lie made .1 mistake, however. In not taking his wife Into the secrd. A neighbor called a few days later in tho absence of the man of the house, and asked tor the loan of the gun to got a hare. t The hare escaped and when the peasant came In that evening his wife remarked that the neighbor must be a very bad shot. . "Why?" the peasant asked "Because ho used both charges of your gun on a hare without hit-ling hit-ling it." "Mj shotgun'"' Inquired the pens-ant pens-ant with a gasp, at the same time making for the corner where the weapon hung. The civil court of the department of Morbihan Will have to decide the .i. licate point Of law whether the neighbor Is respon -lido for th,o his-s of the 1J100 franca. 1- 3 |