Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1910 — Wanted a Pattern. [ARTICLE]

Wanted a Pattern.

A ragged Irishman was charged in a London court, a short- time ago with tendering a counterfeit shilling in payment for a penny loaf. '-~s Though forlorn in aspect, he was not destitute of that shrewdness which is characteristic of his countrymen. He stated that he was sent for the loaf by a person at a public house close by, who gave him the coin to pay for it, and that on discovering it was not good he bought the coin for three halfpence. The Magistrate—How came you to buy the shilling after you had discovered it was a bad one? The prisoner, with much apparent gravity, replied: “Sure, tfien, your honor, I bought it so that if I should happen to have a bad one offered to me I might know it by looking at the one I had with me.” There was a burst of laughter, and the rogue was dismissed with a caution.