His Preference.
“Lost anything by that bank failure, Brown ?” we asked, meeting an old Adelaide friend the other day. , “ Not a penny, Smith. Sing'lar tAng about that, too. I sold some property the day before the failure, and had the money in my pocket, ready to deposit it in that very bank the next morning, but that night the burglars broke into my house and took every penny. Big luck that." " Call that luck 2 Why the bank is going to pay at least five shillings in the pound,” “ That's j ust it. The robbers were caught and they returned fifty per cent, to escape prosecution, so I’m thirty per cent, ahead. Say what you please, Smith, I’d rather do business with the burglars than the banks, any time,"
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Woodville Examiner, Volume 3, Issue 284, 17 September 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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