Too Apparently Honest.

Otago Witness, Issue 2490, 4 December 1901, Page 76

Too Apparently Honest.

The grocer was weighing some sugar for the woman in the dypd blue bonnet, when the liian in the black frock coat, who had be->n standing in the deer, came inside and l.iid a sixpence on tl-e counter. " 1 picked it up on the floor, just at the edge of the steps," lir feaid. "It must belung -to you. A sixpence or a five-pound note, f'r; i~ is the principle of the thing l look at. 1 want nothing that is not mine. There is the money."

Tho grocer laid his forefinger on the coin and r.ushed it across the counter.

"You put iliat money in your pocket, my friend," he eain.

"Bur, fir. yen or one of your men must l.a^o dropped it, rait' it rolled o\ci there. Mv liwito ha^ alwav-s beer. "'

"i belio\o,'' said the giooer, "that you h?vc just mo^cd your family into that house p. rr e s the street this morning; is it not so? " "Ve 3 , til 1 , I did, and. it being comonient, Wf expect to do 3 great deal of bus "

" You puc that money back in your pocket riqlit away. That was not mine. You put it hack in your pocket, and when your v ife comes o\ or for lior groceries, you will remember that my term-- aie each every time."