Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1903 — It Was Bad. [ARTICLE]

It Was Bad.

The other day a young London street arab, having found a bad sixpence, was trying to make use of it at different places, but to uo purpose. At last he went into a tobacconist’s and asked for a threepenny cigar. Having got the cigar and also the change, he was leaving the shop when the man called out: “Come back here; It’s a bad one.” “Never mind, sir,” replied the youngster. “I'll smoke it if it makes me iIL” And he bolted out of the door.—Pearson’s Weekly.