TURNING THE TABLES.
A certain lawyer was very foml of sotting traps for workmen who happened to be working in or about his house by leaving money or some valuable article about. i A workman, well aware of this ; fact, found a half-crown lying on the j floor of one of the rooms. He smiled | as he said to himself, “J know what j that's for,' taking a brace and a bit from his bag, he drilled a hole in the coin, and, putting a large screw nail through it, he fastened it securely to the lloor. The lawyer has not set any traps since. i
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1985, 23 April 1906, Page 7
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106TURNING THE TABLES. Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1985, 23 April 1906, Page 7
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