WORSE THAN BOOK FIENDS.

Evening Star, Issue 8530, 1 June 1891, Page 3

WORSE THAN BOOK FIENDS.

TO THB EDITOR. Sir,—Comments have been frequently made in your columns on the above, but I think there are worse individuals going about—to wit, collectors and canvassers. A friend of mine—now dead—used to eall one in'livdual of this class by the name of «'D'liar raker." He represented a certain public company—now in liquidation—and the sunt of him used to make many a poor shareholder think of the liability he, was responsible for. Talk of the politeness of book fiends! This "Dollar-raker" could give them all points. When on the dollar hunt he would talk to you as nicely as could be p -ssible, and at the same time would be mentally taking down a rough schedule of all the furniture, etc., about the place. The only thiDg he did not deem necesßary to take notice of was the little fair-headed ones by my side. Probably he thought that these would rank as a formidable objection to his company obtaining an order from the magistrate for the payment of the debt. We are the reverse of blessed with many objectionable things, and I wish someone could suggest a way of ridding us for ever of such as I have described. —I am, etc., DOLLARLKBS. Roslyn, June 1.