The pawnbroker, who had risen to wealth and had retired, was staying at a fashionable hotel. His only worry was that ho had fits of absent-mindedness. One night a conjurer came to the hotel and went through his performance. Presently he cried out: “Will any gentleman in the audience lend me ten shillings?” “,on-what?” shoirfM the exjawnh’roker.
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Evening Star, Issue 17954, 27 April 1922, Page 4
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57Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 17954, 27 April 1922, Page 4
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