$10 bill

So, I recently starting an unexpectedly daunting project that I have been wanting to do for quite some time.


I have a collection of recipes, some handwritten, some clipped from old newspapers, from as far back as my mother's mother's grandmother. I have having an amazing time organizing them, and have started to put them on computer, to at least digitize them in some way, before many of these old handwritten documents disintegrate forever.


As I have been going through them, I have found various other writings that I have found fun and fascinating. One I am including here. I am sure it's not new or original, considering I found it in a journal that, best guess, dates to the early 1900s. I thought it was fun, like I said, so I am including it here:


A man found a $10 bill.

He paid his rent with it and his landlord paid his grocery clerk. The clerk paid his board and the landlady paid a debt to the man who had found the bill.

He took it to the bank and deposited it, but the baker threw it away as counterfeit.

Now, who was the loser by the deal... or was anybody?