Two months passed before hearing from the lawyer again, when he apologized for the delay, saying:
"I have been unable until now to find another counterfeit two dollar bill, but hope the one now enclosed will suit, professing at the same time my inability to discover what the objection was to the other, which I thought as good a counterfeit as I ever saw."
HELPING THE HORSES
A gentleman riding on the front platform of a down-town horse-car, noticed standing beside him a tired-looking Irishman who held a heavy bundle on his shoulder.
"Why don't you set that bundle down on the platform?" asked Mr. L----.
"Sure," said the Celt, "those poor horses have all they can do to dr-rag the car and the payple. Oi'll carry the bundle."
DISCREDITED THE STORY
A well-known character in a small town in New Jersey, having returned after a year's absence, was accosted by an acquaintance as follows:
"Hello, Bill, where in the world have I you been? I heard you were dead long ago."
"I heerd o' that meself," Bill replied, "but I knowed it was a lie soon as I heerd it."