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We eed from the shop amazed, and doubtful of the paper stuff, and walked up the street and out into the country, pausing under a great maple-tree to sort this new Continental currency, of which we had enough to stuff a pillow

Scrip by scrip I exaal tender ofthe printed slips of yellow, brown, and red in groonder One slip bore three arrows on it, under which was printed: Fifty Dollars Printed by H A L L and S E L 1778

Upon the other side was a pyraend: PERENNIS

And it was further decorated with the following: "No 16780 Fifty Dollars This Bill entitles the Bearer to receive Fifty Spanish milled dollars or the value thereof in Gold or Silver, according to the Resolution passed by Congress at Philadelphia, September 26th, 1788

"J WATKINS; I K"

And we had several dozen of these of equal or less denouinea worth all these dollars? And do you suppose that we could buy anything with these paper bills?"

"Certainly," I said, loyal to ood as silver shillings--if you only have enough of them"

"But what use will they be to h I iuinea in exchange, but she refused it, and we had a pretty quarrel there under the maple-tree

"Carus," she said at last, "let us keep them, anyhow, and never, never spend them Some day we may care to re as sober as a wedded pair in Hanover Square"

There was a certain note of seriousness in her voice that sobered h mine, and we strolled out into the sunshine and northward along the little river, where in shallon pools scores ofin schools under the bush's shadows, and the great silver and blue kingfishers winging up and down like flashes of azure fire

Aour business, and as we had none we turned back, for ithay in the river-oons; herds of cattle and sheep grazed aain dragoons rode past us, convoying endless lines of wagons piled up with barrels, crates, sacks of meal, and sometimes with bolts of coarse cloth