Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1917 — A Pair of Tricksters. [ARTICLE]

A Pair of Tricksters.

They were on leave from the front, and they had dined well and wined well, and finished at a theater. Outside they separated, and the leader of the party was* lucky enough to secure a taxi. Half way home, however, he discovered, on putting his hand in hhrpraket, that he-wasf pehnllesß. What was to be done! ~ . The British army is never at a loss, and In a few moments he -saw a way out. ~ He caught up the speaking tube and shouted “Stop!" Then, Jumping out, he told the driver to wait. “I just want to pop into this tobacconist’s to get a box of matches. I’ve dropped a sovereign on the floor of the cab and I can’t find it in the dark/* He entered the tobacconist’s and the moment he was through, the door the driver and the cab softly and suddenly vanished into the night, as he 1 had anticipated.—Exchange..