Taking them as they lay, I read aloud the nature of each before I proceeded to the next.

They were also numbered.
"No.

1," I commenced.

"Certificates of public stock held by Tho.
Goldencalf, June 12th, 1815." We were now at June 29th of the same year.
As I laid aside this packet I observed that the sum indorsed on its back greatly exceeded a million.

"No.