'I'll keep that for my little girl,' thought I at once.

Accordingly, when I went home at night, I just took the dollar out of, the till and gave it to her.

Of course, she was delighted with it, and, like a child, wanted to spend it at once.

So her mother agreed to go out with her the next day.

Well, they selected some knick-knack or other, but when they came to pay for it the dollar proved counterfeit." "Counterfeit ?" "Yes; bad.