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Old Roger was standing in State street, and saw an
Irishman rolling a keg of specie from his cart to the
institution for which it was intended.

“There,” said the old fellow to a foreign gentleman
who was standing by him, “there you see the benefit of
our free institutions; there is a man who came to this
country six months ago, as poor as poor could be, and
now, you see, he is actually rolling in riches!”

He said this, and turned round, very red in the face,
and struck his cane several times violently on the sidewalk,
and waited for his friend to explode. Hearing no
sound of cachinnation, he turned and found the gentleman
vainly endeavoring to decipher the emblems on the
Merchants' Exchange. He evidently had n't understood
the joke.