PAWNING A DOLL.
Pawnbrokers see strange eights of all kinds, “from grave to gay, from lively to severe.’' A French paper reports this touching case. A little girl enters the pawnshop with something in a handkerchief. She takes a seat until her turn comes, and then approaches the counter and lays down her parcel. The shopman proceeds to open it in his usual indifferent manner, but his curiosity is suddenly aroused on finding the contents to be a doll! “ Now, my little dear,” he asks, “ what do you want me to do with this F” The girl replies, “Father is ill, and mother is crying because she has no money to buy him physio; so I thought I would bring you my doll and ask you to lend me something on it.” The shopman reflects for a moment, looks at the child, then goes into the rear room where the pledges are examined, comes back again, and returns the doll to the little girl, with something wrapped up in paper. “ Five francs on a doll,” he cries out to the clerk, and then goes on to the next pledge. This story is guaranteed as authentic.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9446, 22 June 1891, Page 6
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195PAWNING A DOLL. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXV, Issue 9446, 22 June 1891, Page 6
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