RICHES IN BROWNS PAPER
» " '• A man walked into the Savoy Hotel, London, one night lately carrying a brown-paper parcel loosely tied with string. "Look after this while I hav* dinner," he said to a pageboy. After dinner the man returned and asked for his parcel. "I'll bet you can't guess what is in /this parcel," he said, smiling." The pageboy made several guesses—all wrong. "I'll show you," said the man, H« opened one end of the parcel end poured out on the counter a. heap of goldtwisted gold settings that had hel£ jewels, gold vtatoh-cases, gold bracelet* and chains, sovereigns, pencil-cases, wedc ding rings, buckles. "There is nearly £12,000 worth of gold here," the mas said. "On Monday morning it will als be melted down." And retying his parcel he strode away.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22212, 15 March 1934, Page 6
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