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The Counterfeit Note
Wii walking down the street, one moming, I
found a hundred rupee note on the footpath. I picked
it up, noted the number and took it home.
In the afternoon the plumber called on me to
collect his bill. As I had no other money at home, I
settled his account with the hundred rupee note I had
found. Later I came to know that the plumber paid the
note to his milkman to settle his monthly account, who
paid it to his tailor for the garments he had made.
The tailor in turn used the money to buy an old
sewing machine, from a woman who lives in my
neighbourhood. This woman incidentally, had bor-
rowed hundred rupees from me sometime back to buy
a pressure cooker,remembering that she owed me
hundred rupees, came and paid the debt.
I recognised the note as the one I had found on the
footpath, and on careful examination I discovered that
the bill was counterfeit.
How much was lost in the whole transaction and
by whom?
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