VOLUME V--NUMBER l..

.hased the ring, after this fashion.
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chased the ring. after this fashion.


well, my dear fellow, I have had my
laugh out at you. and don't want the
ring. Marquaed has offered me three
hundred and fifty dollars Tor it you shall
have 1t for two hundred and fifty, and YOU
can go to him tomorrow if you like and
make a cool hundred out Of IT,"


The offer was too tempting 10 be refused.
The shark bit, and the Soulherner recei-
we'd two hundred and fifty dollars worth of
gold for fifty cents worth of paste. The
next morning the Carolinian was non esq
tAoeSfuS and the overreached sharper
found lying or his table beautiful! Little
billet, sealed with peTfumed wax, and
stamped with Mercury, the god OF thieves
On removing the envelope. the note was
found 10 contain only three words, viz


Diamond cut Diamond


This was a puzzle bat the first jeweller
to whom our sporting man" showed the
ring. explained the mystery. The victim
unable to bear up against the torrent Of
ridicule brought down upon him by this
denOuemeut, has left town for a few weeks
on urgent business.