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Show "' A Mississippian's Little Artifice. A few days aso a rich planter boarded a steamer off Natchez. He purchased a paper from a newsb6y, and was soon lost in its perusal. "Colonel," said a. bland young man a few moments after, "you have just dropped this," handing him a fifty-dollar note. , , - "I reckon not," said the old gentleman as he overlooked his spectacles. "I just picked it uprunder your chair," replied the voung man, "and see no other way to dispose of it. However, since it seems to belong to neither of us, we might just as well divide it. The plan worked well. The old gentleman gentle-man passed over $25 in change, and the young .man sauntered carelessly out on land. A few minutes after the vessel had taken to water the.ild gentleman presented pre-sented the $50 note to the clerk in payment pay-ment for his fare. "Counterfeit," exclaimed the clerk, and then for the first time the whole truth dawned upon the old man's mind. |