The quick comeback
A waiter in a restaurant brought me in change, two bad silver pieces, 50 centimes or ten cents each. I did not protest, but gently pushed them out for him for his tip.
"Oh, that’s bad money; bad money!" he exclaimed. "I can’t pass that."
"It does look that way," I said.
-Caroline Lockhart, in Paris July 1900
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