The C.S.S.
If during the past week you have been accosted by a gentleman, who, before leaving you, has relieved you of a penny, there is no fear that you have been the victim of a confidence trick.
"On Monday," writes a correspondent, "I was accosted by a rather stout gentleman who begged of me to give him a penny. I told him that I had nothing but a sixpence and he quickly took this and tendered me five pennies change. Why should he beg, I thought, he is too well nourished to want food, and too well dressed to want clothes. Before my thoughts had wandered further he handed me a printed slip about 2 1/2 inches by 1 inch. On it were these words:
COPPER SNATCHING SOCIETY.
IF YOU WANT YOUR PENNY BACK FIND ANOTHER MUG.
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I found out on Thursday, that the gentleman was none other than Mr H. Clarke, and that as a result of his penny snatching he had paid into the Buntingford Nursing Fund Account at Messrs Barclays Bank the sum of six shillings."
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