OUTWITTED.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 3252, 4 September 1917, Page 3

OUTWITTED.

Two young men of a certain French village were called on to draw fur the subscription. One only wawanted to complete th<- number, and of the two v. h<> were to draw, on? was the son of a rich farmer, and the other the only child of a P<.o. widow. The farmer made friends with the official in charge of the ballot, and promised him a handsome present i! he would only prevent his son from -oing to the army. In order to dj this the o-icial put into the urn two black I a'ls instead of one black an 1 one whit •. V.'h :n t yo ins men came lie su,d, "There a r o t, o 1»ill-', one bI • c.c and oii'' v.lni<. in t=ic urn ; hj? who draws the ula -k one must s rve. Your t'irn is lirst," jointing to the v. id'iv. 's s' n. 1h" l.iff'r, suspecting that all was nit fair, dn >v on* o f ih ■ bills from Ibe urn. und iuiniedi itel \ s.\ allowed it. v. it In >'. it even b o'nng at it. "V. liv hi ve you done that'."' a - ed the otlicial. "How arc we t > ino A' v.lmth r \<vi have drawn a black or white | all ?" "Oh. that's very simple," was the reply ; "let the other man now draw. If I have the black, he must necessarily draw th" white < in". There was no help for it, and th: farmer's son. puttintr hi-; hand into the urn, drew the remaining ball, which, to the satisfaction of the spectators, was a black one.