Original Greenbackers

"Talk about your fish stories, gentle men," said a well known man ahout town, yesterday, "I don't suppose you vvill believe me, but when I was out j fisliing last suinmer 1 saw aqueer sight. A very queer sight, gentlemen. One morning early I got up and went down to the lake, and sure as you live there were hundreds of greenbacks lying all around on the grass ; hundreds of them. I could hardly believe my eyes." "Why didn't you fill your pockets, and come home and buy something for the boys?" asked a credulous listener. "I'll teil you friends, I tried to catch some of them, but as usual they were too quick for me, and they all jumped into the lake and swam away. They were croakers. vou see, the original greenbackers." And he walked away with the air of one who had said something smart. The listeners looked at each other j mutely for a minute and then without a word being spoken each one put his ■ hands in his pockets and, started off to see a man.