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Newly appointed to the Law School, Professor Prosser started his second lecture on that morning with an illustrative example of "negotiable" securities. "Has anybody got a $5 bill?" he questioned his audience...
...being slow-witted, reached in my pocket and handed him one," said Poindexter. Prosser then pocketed the bill, "sat back, looked smug, and smiled," and the whole class burst into laughter...
Professor Prosser seemed to sense that he "was going to be served with a summons," said Poindexter, "and he knew about my coming marriage. So he called me up to the podium and gave me $5 'for a wedding gift'," and the constable gave Prosser the snmmons...
Poindexter was married Sunday and both he and his wife are looking forward to a Durgin-Park steak dinner with Professor Prosser's gift, but Poindexter still wants his original $5 back and plans to file a declaration of his injury next Saturday in the Cambridge courthouse...
...Poindexter plans to drop a "thank-you" note in the mail for Professor Prosser, "who was a very thoughtful man to make us a wedding gift," and Mr. Poindexter has decided to spread his time between thinking up an appropriate image of Prosser to garnish his mantelpiece and deciding just what to do with another fiver that came his way last night...