A PROFITABLE HOAX.

Recently at the Copper Mines on Lake Superior, a "greenhorn" asked

some miners to show him where to dig; they offered to do it, provided

he would treat to a quart of "_prairie dew_," which he did, and they

set him to work under a shady tree, in mere sport. Before night he

struck a "_Lead_," and the next sold out for $4000.

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