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within a period of 20 years, amounting to an annual rental
of 64 pounds, headrent included, the titledeeds to remain in
possession of the lender or lenders with a saving clause en-
visaging forced sale, foreclosure and mutual compensation
in the event of protracted failure to pay the terms assigned,
otherwise the messuage to become the absolute property of
the tenant occupier upon expiry of the period of years stip-
ulated.
What rapid but insecure means to opulence might facili-
tate immediate purchase?
A private wireless telegraph which would transmit by
dot and dash system the result of a national equine handi-
cap (flat or steeplechase) of I or more miles and furlongs
won by an outsider at odds of 50 to 1 at 3 hr 8 m p.m. at
Ascot (Greenwich time), the message being received and
available for betting purposes in Dublin at 2.59 p.m. (Dun-
sink time). The unexpected discovery of an object of great
monetary value (precious stone, valuable adhesive or im-
pressed postage stamps (7 schilling, mauve, imperforate,
Hamburg, 1866: 4 pence, rose, blue paper, perforate, Great
Britain, 1855: 1 franc, stone, official, rouletted, diagonal sur-
charge, Luxemburg, 1878), antique dynastical ring, unique
relic) in unusual repositories or by unusual means: from the
air (dropped by an eagle in flight), by fire (amid the car-
bonised remains of an incendiated edifice), in the sea (amid
flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict), on earth (in the giz-
zard of a comestible fowl). A Spanish prisoner’s donation
of a distant treasure of valuables or specie or bullion lodged
with a solvent banking corporation loo years previously at