I bought it from a donkey-boy in Cairo for about thirty shillings." "Indeed," he replied suspiciously.

"I should have thought the stone in it was worth more than that, although, of course, it may be nothing but glass.

The engraving, too, is first-rate.

Adams," he added with severity, "you are trying to hoax us, but let me tell you what I thought you knew by this time--that you can't take in Ptolemy Higgs.

This ring is a shameless swindle; but who did the Hebrew on it?
He's a good scholar, anyway." "Don't know," I answered; "wasn't aware till now that it was Hebrew.