Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1909 — Paid in His Own Coin. [ARTICLE]

Paid in His Own Coin.

“I’ve £ot nothing else, and youTl have to" take it.” said the consequential man. in the tramcar. “Bat wh ain’t supposed to change half-sovereigns,” said the conductor. “Can’t help that,” said the passenger; “you’ll have to find change, that’s aIL ITn not going W get off.” A man in the corner with a bfg black bag beckoned to the conductor; there was a whispered confab, and a smiling conductor returned to the wealthy passenger. “A gentleman has offered to give you change,” he said. “Ha, ha! So you had l to climb down and find change after all, my fine fellow, eh! Well here’s the halfsovereign.” It was five minutes before he got his change. • Wttien the conductor brought it, it was in a double handful. “There you are, sir,” he said. Ans\ dumping down one hundred and nineteen pence and a penny ticket upon the cantankerous one, he left him to gasp out his expostulations. The man with the black bag was an automatic gas-meter collector.— Tit-Bits.