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Show Squaring the Account. Last evening a clerical gentleman called at a ticket agency in the city and asked the price of two first-class tickets for Halifax. The agent said that the cost would be $12. "Then," said the clergyman, "how far could I travel on a $3 ticket?" "To Point du Chene or Memremcook," replied the clerk. "I will take two tickets for Halifax ; also a ticket for Point du Chene." said the divine. The tickets" were handed over to the reverend gentleman, who after paying $15 for them, immediately tore up the two first-class tickets for the trip to Halifax. Hal-ifax. The agent naturally looked in astonishment as-tonishment at this proceeding. After the" pasteboard had been scattered in pieces and deposited in the scrap basket, the clergyman turned to the agent and said: "I suppose you wonder at what I have done?" The agent answered: "Well, yes, sir; I do." "Well," said the clergyman, cler-gyman, "a man with whom I was talking told me he cheated the railroad out of $15, and his remorse was so great that he gave me the money to pay it over to the railway department. I do not know. of .any better way of squaring the account." ac-count." After a polite nod and a gentle "good evening," the reverend gentleman withdrew. St. John Globe. |