HE HUMOURED HIS FELLOW PASSENCER.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 50, 12 December 1891, Page 692

HE HUMOURED HIS FELLOW PASSENCER.

A well-known stockbroker, who was on his way to Manchester recently, observed that one of his fellow passengers was closely regarding him, and after a time the man came over and asked, ‘Didn’t I see you in Birmingham in 1879 !’ The broker was not in Birmingham that year ; but, thinking to humour the stranger, he replied in the affirmative. ‘ Don’t you remember handing a poor wretch a sovereign one night, in front of the Hotel !’ ‘ I do.’ • Well, I’m that chap. I was hard up, out of work, and about ready to commit suicide. That money made a newnew man of me. By one lucky shift and another, lam now worth £10,000.' ‘ Glad to hear it.’ ‘ And now I want you to take £2 in place of that sovereign. I can't feel easy until the debt is paid.’ The broker protested and objected, but finally, just to humour the man, he took his five-pound note and gave him back three sovereigns. The stranger soon withdrew, and everything might have ended then and there if the broker, on reaching Manchester, had not ascertained that the ‘ fiver ’ was a counterfeit, and that he was £3 out of pocket.

A biblical shoemaker has the following hung outside his shop : ‘ People’s understandings renovated and their frail soles made whole.’