NEW CALEDONIA PURSE COVERED WITH SHELLS.
Amongst other examples of small currencies I have selected the Groat-Bill issued in the States before the Revolution, and also a specimen of the small postage-currency in use in the States immediately after the Civil War.
For the loan of all the Queer Cash which illustrate this article, we are indebted jointly to Messrs. Spink, of Piccadilly, and to the authorities of the British Museum.
They are not a tithe of those which we might have published, but they are among the most interesting, and show that the money instinct is prevalent the world over. "Hard" cash it can scarcely be called, for the feather currency at least is deliciously soft.
BEADS TO GET GOLD.
[CLEVER MRS. BLADON.]
AN ACCOUNT OF A BIT OF STRATEGY.
By E. Burrowes.
Illustrated by Sydney Cowell.