FORTUNE IN TWO PAILS.
A shabby old woman in blank, carrying two bartered tin pails, shuffled into tin; Royal Bank of Canada, Montreal. and was allowed to gaze about, people thinking she was a charwoman, until an attendant spoke to her. She wanted a safety deposit box. On being told prices were five to fifty dollars, she raised her two pails* to the counter and produced lo,(100 doi! lavs' worth of bonds and about 8000 dollars in cash. Would they go in a fivei-dollar safe ? ■ Hardly, haid •i.ho amazed official ; and j the old lady sighed and walked slowly ! away with her fortune.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2067, 15 January 1925, Page 7
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103FORTUNE IN TWO PAILS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2067, 15 January 1925, Page 7
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