{"id":"01KG8AKC4QMMWJHEQPBV6Y0QQ0","cid":"bafkreietu7q6zmdmp3e4k4pvrb4jli6qbfefsy44wwun6delgotvi7lthu","type":"chunk","properties":{"end_line":10889,"extracted_at":"2026-01-30T20:47:57.726Z","extracted_by":"structure-extraction-lambda","label":"Chunk 7","source_file":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","start_line":10812,"text":"\"Well, what say you, Mr. Foreman; guilty, or not guilty?--Not guilty,\r\nain't it?\"\r\n\r\n\"I don't know, I don't know,\" returned the old man, perplexed, \"there's\r\nso many marks of all sorts to go by, it makes it a kind of uncertain.\r\nHere, now, is this bill,\" touching one, \"it looks to be a three dollar\r\nbill on the Vicksburgh Trust and Insurance Banking Company. Well, the\r\nDetector says----\"\r\n\r\n\"But why, in this case, care what it says? Trust and Insurance! What\r\nmore would you have?\"\r\n\r\n\"No; but the Detector says, among fifty other things, that, if a good\r\nbill, it must have, thickened here and there into the substance of the\r\npaper, little wavy spots of red; and it says they must have a kind of\r\nsilky feel, being made by the lint of a red silk handkerchief stirred up\r\nin the paper-maker's vat--the paper being made to order for the\r\ncompany.\"\r\n\r\n\"Well, and is----\"\r\n\r\n\"Stay. But then it adds, that sign is not always to be relied on; for\r\nsome good bills get so worn, the red marks get rubbed out. And that's\r\nthe case with my bill here--see how old it is--or else it's a\r\ncounterfeit, or else--I don't see right--or else--dear, dear me--I don't\r\nknow what else to think.\"\r\n\r\n\"What a peck of trouble that Detector makes for you now; believe me, the\r\nbill is good; don't be so distrustful. Proves what I've always thought,\r\nthat much of the want of confidence, in these days, is owing to these\r\nCounterfeit Detectors you see on every desk and counter. Puts people up\r\nto suspecting good bills. Throw it away, I beg, if only because of the\r\ntrouble it breeds you.\"\r\n\r\n\"No; it's troublesome, but I think I'll keep it.--Stay, now, here's\r\nanother sign. It says that, if the bill is good, it must have in one\r\ncorner, mixed in with the vignette, the figure of a goose, very small,\r\nindeed, all but microscopic; and, for added precaution, like the figure\r\nof Napoleon outlined by the tree, not observable, even if magnified,\r\nunless the attention is directed to it. Now, pore over it as I will, I\r\ncan't see this goose.\"\r\n\r\n\"Can't see the goose? why, I can; and a famous goose it is. There\"\r\n(reaching over and pointing to a spot in the vignette).\r\n\r\n\"I don't see it--dear me--I don't see the goose. Is it a real goose?\"\r\n\r\n\"A perfect goose; beautiful goose.\"\r\n\r\n\"Dear, dear, I don't see it.\"\r\n\r\n\"Then throw that Detector away, I say again; it only makes you purblind;\r\ndon't you see what a wild-goose chase it has led you? The bill is good.\r\nThrow the Detector away.\"\r\n\r\n\"No; it ain't so satisfactory as I thought for, but I must examine this\r\nother bill.\"\r\n\r\n\"As you please, but I can't in conscience assist you any more; pray,\r\nthen, excuse me.\"\r\n\r\nSo, while the old man with much painstakings resumed his work, the\r\ncosmopolitan, to allow him every facility, resumed his reading. At\r\nlength, seeing that he had given up his undertaking as hopeless, and was\r\nat leisure again, the cosmopolitan addressed some gravely interesting\r\nremarks to him about the book before him, and, presently, becoming more\r\nand more grave, said, as he turned the large volume slowly over on the\r\ntable, and with much difficulty traced the faded remains of the gilt\r\ninscription giving the name of the society who had presented it to the\r\nboat, \"Ah, sir, though every one must be pleased at the thought of the\r\npresence in public places of such a book, yet there is something that\r\nabates the satisfaction. Look at this volume; on the outside, battered\r\nas any old valise in the baggage-room; and inside, white and virgin as\r\nthe hearts of lilies in bud.\"\r\n\r\n\"So it is, so it is,\" said the old man sadly, his attention for the\r\nfirst directed to the circumstance.\r\n\r","title":"Chunk 7"},"relationships":[{"peer":"01KG8AJNPWTERPN2J92AFP8QXB","peer_type":"chapter","predicate":"in"},{"peer":"01KG89J1JMR8XVKPA0G8ADAPC4","peer_type":"file","predicate":"extractedFrom"},{"peer":"01KG89HMDZKNY753EZE1CJ8HZW","peer_type":"collection","predicate":"collection"},{"peer":"01KG8AKC4PN3ZY3BMEWXP9WHRS","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"prev"},{"peer":"01KG8AKC4VZ5P11J83JPY4MNXB","peer_type":"chunk","predicate":"next"}],"ver":2,"created_at":"2026-01-30T20:48:02.199Z","ts":"2026-01-30T20:48:15.915Z","edited_by":{"method":"manual","user_id":"01KFF0H3YRP9ZSM033AM0QJ47H"}}