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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 87, 6 January 1908, Page 9

Tho story of a sudden hope, and a moro sudden disappointment, is told by the Newcastle "Herald." An amateur gardener, says tho paper,- on tho North Shore (Sydney) lino was digging in his garden recently, whon ho was surprised and gratified to find a shilling—then a two-shilling piece, tlion, a little later, a sixpence, several coppers, and a halfcrown piece. . Noodlcss to say, ho began to dig with renewed energy in tho hope of turning up u few sovereigns, and soon tho porspiration was standing in beads on his brow. He straightened his back at last, with a feeble groan of pain, and in tho same instant ho felt something sliding down his leg. In a momont he had grasped the truth—there was a hole in his trousers pocket, and lie was sinking his own capital ao fast as ho dug it up 1