How Curran Helped A Countryman To Recover His Money

The following anecdote of Curran, the celebrated Irish orator, has but recently appeared. A farmer attending fair with a hundred pounds in his pocket, took the preoaution of depositing it in the hands of the landlord of the public house at which he stopped. Having occasion for it shortly af terwards, he reaorted to mine host for payment. But the landlord, too deep for the countryman, wondered what he meant, and was quite sure no such sum had ever been lodged in bis hands by the astonished rustió. Af - ter ineffectual appeals to the recollection, and finally to the honor of Bardólph, the farmer applied to Curran for advice. "Have patience, my friend," said the counsel ; "speak to the landlord civilly - teil him you have left your money with some other person. Take a friend with you and lodge with him another hundred in the presenoe of your friend, and come to me." He did so, aud roturned to his legal friend. "And now I can't see how I am going to be better off for this, if I get iny second hundred back again. liut how is üiat to be done ?" "(Jo and aak him for it when he is alone," said tíie counsel. "Aye, sir, asking won't do, I am afraid, without my witnesa along at any rate." "Nevermind; take my advice," said his counsel ; "do as I bid you and return toma." The farmer returned with his hundred, glad to find that safely in his poseession. "Now, sir, I must be content ; but I don't see I'm much better off. " "Well, then," said the counsel, "now take your frlend along with you and ask the landlord for the hundred pounds which your friend Baw you leave with him. " We need not add that the wily landlord found he had been taken off his guard, white our honest friend returned x thank his counsel exultingly with both hundreds in his pocket.