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Anecdote Of J. Q. Adams

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Day
1
Month
April
Year
1870
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Public Domain
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lounf,' Adatas was u student io the office of tho late Judge Parsons, of Nowburyport. Parsous, who was souiething of a wag, said to bis pupil, a little buíore the closu of the Uïual courso of study, 'Adams, you are a good fellow, and will make soiuethiog if you live. Tbore is, however, ono pieco of informatiün of great irnportanco ia our profesión which 1 have not givcn you. For that we always receivo an extra feo of $20; I rnerely state this for yoar nformation. You can do as you choose about it." Adums, not over flush, hesitated, but upon cocsideration paid tho extra fee and reccived tho foílowing icformation : "Wheo you pay money always take a recoipt." Tbe young studeut saw that be was sold, but said nothing, and the thing paesed out of tho Judge's minci. A few days after tbe stage coach called at the offico for Adams, who was bookcd for Boston, and who as he was about to enter it, suddculy discovered that he was "short," when turniüg to the Judge, askcd the favor of a loan of $20. The ïnoiiuy was handod him with kind wishes for a "pleasaut journey." Adams went to Bostun and roturned, but seemcd to have forgottea the borrowed money. Timo passed on, other matters were arranged to the satisfaction of all partios, and he was abcut to take his ünal Ie ave, whep the Judge suggested to him that perhaps ho had forgoitcn tho $20 borrowed money. "Tweoty dollars burrowed monoy !" said Adams with a look of wellfuigued surprise. "Was that so ? Of courso, Judgu, you took a rece'pt." In later years the Judge was fond of telling this story as an evidence of tho 'sharpness of his favorite student.

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Michigan Argus