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Updated: May 22, 2025
"I know of course that they cut the jay's tongue with a knife, but as you are not a bird, Prepelicza ..." "No, no," stammered the man hastily. "Well, instead of a knife I take these two bank-notes to cut your tongue with." And with that he took two hundred-florin bank-notes out of his pocket-book.
One day I received a registered letter containing money. It was stamped all over with the cheapest kind of sealing-wax, and, on opening the envelope, I was surprised to find a letter from my Uncle Dion, with an old, crumpled hundred-florin bill, of a kind that had long gone out of circulation, and which showed every mark of having issued from one of the hollow reeds.
The master-carpenter had by this time finished his scribbling and rummaging, and he now beckoned Kárpáthy to the table, and counted out before him a bundle of hundred-florin notes in six lots, together with four florins in twenty-kreutzer pieces, and thirty red copper kreutzers besides. "Look here!" said he; "count.
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