"I take out three small, thin spelling books, cloth bound,
all alike as the bindery and the presses can make them.
Then, careless like, I take a $10 bill out of my pocket,
fold it across in a sort of V-shape and slip it into the
middle of one of the spelling books, so that just one
corner will stick out, probably a quarter of an inch. Of
course, I haven't seen it! Sometimes the man on the cars
will try to say something about it, but I cut in and drown
him out with easy talk till he gets the idea that he might
as well have that ten and the books for five, and let it go
at that.
"But one corner all the time is torn off that bill, and
about a quarter of an inch of that bill is sticking out of
the center of one of the other books. Of course the jay
hasn't seen that!