Show A bleers confidential clerk the father of the present lord dysart was a 1 very eccentric peer lie seldom ever issued from his lodgings in norfolk street and used to carry on oil all communications with the outer world by means of a small slit si in his door through which com commini muni c eions to and fro were passed every day lay his bis lordship had sent to him the number of cabbages cut peaches pea clies on the trees of eggs laid and chickens hatched on his ills estates lie ile made his investments through an aged female domestic servant one ono day the old lady walked into the southwestern hallway railway companas comp anys office and asked whether there was not an issue of some sort of guaranteed stock steel T the clerk said there was quite safe said blie oh oil yes old lady you need not be afraid of your money do you want to put your quarters wages in fit itt it well she bald it if you please bo be good enough to give me worth of it and heres the money and with that she untied a big pocket from under tinder her dress containing notes to that amount and presented the pocket to the astonished clerk london tit bits |