ARTICLES BY ”SNYDER.”

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 77, 8 December 1887, Page 2

ARTICLES BY ”SNYDER.”

THE END OF A JOURNALIST’S CAEEEBi HIS LAST RESOURCE. (Continued.) Tell the governor to wait a bit or sajr I'll pull him out a tooth, or make him a false one, or do anything tn my line as a set off. Tell him anything you like, but tell him I have no money. I men* tioned that my instructions were pre* eraptory. If he didn't pay I was have a summons served upon him; He asked, was lin earnest. I said yes quite so. And when will you apply for the summons ? I ssid this was Tuesday, the summons would be applied for on Thursday, He said he would take it as a most particular favor if I waited till Monday. 1 wished to know if I did would he pay the ac* count by that time. My dear boy, he said, you mistake me. Pay by Mon* day I Not a bit of it. It’s a thing not to be managed. But to tell you the truth I have ordered a new suit of black cloth, which is to come home on Saturday afternoon. If you me before then the tailor will get scent of it and he’ll be sure to keep back the clothes. Now be a trump for once and don’t do anything spiteful until Monday. A new suit will carry me on till Christmas—flying. Let me only

get the toggery, and then I shan't ob* ject to a summons in the least. Yoti wouldn't do me out of a suit of clothes would you ? But lam afraid, 1 said, that if you do get the clothes you will do the tailor. The dentist gave a good laugh arid said I was mighty witty, but he honed that I would on no ao* count be hard on him until after Mon* day. He didn't mind the summons t bit because he was only a lodger in possession of the front room and if * bailiff was put in he had only a show glass bottle full of decayed teeth and his jaw grippers to seize upon. But spoil him by depriving him of his professional appearance m a new suit of clothes ana I was taking the bread out of his mouth. I didn’t order a summons to issue. The fellow got his suit of clothes and left for Sydney, via Auckland, by the following steamer. I am beginning to think that collect* ing outstanding accounts is not in my Hue, or that I am living in -a community where people have acquired a wonderful aptitude for stalling off an application tor payment of a debt. I call at one house on a Tuesday and am told by a member of the firm that they only pay accounts on Mondays. I call on Monday, making sure of getting the money, when I am told that the cashier has gone up the country and as he is the only one who knows how the account stands I must wait

until the next Monday. I meet a man in the street who has told me to ask him for the money the first time I set him. lam about to take advantage of the opportunity when he oomos up and taking me by the hand squeezes my fingers together so hard that my signet ring draws blood from the adjoining finger. He says he knows what I want. It is that little amount. He had just been thinking of it before I came along. Wasn’t it a curious coincidence. I was always knocking about a good deal and knew almost everyone. Did I know where he could raise a tenner on hi* P.N. I tell him I don’t know what a P.N. is. He «»y innocent heart and only wishes he was so unsophisticated as me. He then enlightens me by saying that a P.N is short for promissory note. I then say that I really don't know where I can raise a tenner, but I should be glad if he would pay mo the six pounds seven and ten which he promised the next time I saw him. He coolly told me that it altogether rested with myself. If I could VaisO him the tenner he would wipe off the debt and stand something handsome for the trouble. He wanted mo to go with him for a game at billiards. He would give me ten points in fifty up. I knew quite well that he could give me forty and then beat, or if he happened to lose would borrow the money from me to pay the marker, so I declined. - (to sk ooxTwvsn.)