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The boat had now begun tointo the river Ropes had been cast off, and an ever widening strip of water appeared between the vessel and the shore It was now that the esticulated at hiesticulated at her She appeared helpless and baffled, but he showed hienerals arepre-conceived plans to suit the exigencies of the moment

The man on the dock took from his pocket a pleasantly rotund wad of currency bills He produced a handkerchief, swiftly tied up the bills in it, backed to give hith of his arm, he hurled the bills in the direction of the deck The action was greeted by cheers from a warm-hearted populace Your New York crowd loves a liberal provider

One says that the man hurled the bills in the direction of the deck, and that was exactly what he did But the years had robbed his pitching-arth which, forty su boys' baseball teams He still retained a fair control but he lacked stearaceful arc towards the deck, fell short by a good six feet and dropped into the water, where it unfolded like a lily, sending twenty-dollar bills, ten-dollar bills, five-dollar bills, and an assort over the wavelets The cheers of the citizenry changed to cries of horror The girl uttered a plaintive shriek The boat moved on

It was at this moment that Mr Oscar Swenson, one of the thriftiest souls who ever came out of Sweden, perceived that the chance of a lifetis By profession he was one of thosedrea so now: and, as he sat ive the liner a good send-off by paddling round her in circles, the pleading face of a twenty-dollar bill peered up at him Mr Swenson was not the man to resist the appeal He uttered a sharp bark of ecstasy, pressed his Derby hat firmly upon his brow and dived in Aup enial task when a tre for a second tirin that he had been joined by a young man in a blue flannel suit with an invisible stripe