I never had no luck that way, but it's like getting married, it's a lottery! Folks git queer and put money in some spot, where they're apt to forgit all about it.

Now I knew a man who bought an old hat and a sight of other stuff; jest threw in the hat.

And when he got home and come to examine it ef thar warn't three hundred dollars in good bills, chucked in under the sweater!" "You ought to git over to Mason's auction to Milldon, sure.

It's day after to-morrow at nine sharp.

You see he'd a fortune left him, but he run straight through it buying the goldarndest things you ever heerd tell on--calves with six legs, dogs with three eyes or two tails, steers that could be druv most as well as hosses (Barnum he got hold o' 'em and tuk 'em round with his show); all sorts o' curious fowl and every outlandish critter he could lay his hands on.