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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1893, 17 August 1874, Page 3

" Cameo's Ma " writes as follows in an Auek« land contemporary:—" I say Bill,' said one, I have it now; I'll become an Oifieial Liquidator. Best game going; with a little smattering of law and plenty of meanness I believe a man might officially liquidate himself into a good position in this here place.' 'Nonsense, Tom,' said Bill. ' There's no nonsense abont it' said Tom. 'If a man only puts on a good coat and shades his hair nicely, and talks in a quiet way, 1 believe he could liquidate a decent livelihood. I know a chap as ha 3 done it Bill.' .He hasn't much brains either, but he has plenty of cheek, and is as cold-blooded as a frog. _ Ho picked up a little law, but he knew si little about the practice that they used to call him 'Nonsuit.' He used to get a few cases, but somehow he used always get the bull by the, tail, and when he came into court, and the other lawyers used to trip him up, and show th-it he had put the wrong end foremost, he used to accept a nonsuit so meekly, that they gave him the name of' nonsuit.' Well, he saw that this game wouldn't do, so he says to himself, says he I'll liquidate. And then he got hold of a big company called the City Hold Mining Company, or something like that, and then re* formed it into anooher called the City Confirmed and Established Company, or something like that, which in the course of time he began to liquidate. There was about £150 to be liquidated, but it takes some time to liquidate, and here iiTwliere a liquidator shines. It would bo madness to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs, and so he didn't kill her, but kept her in slow agony, feeding her on clippings of parchment, and squeezing her from time to time as occasion demanded, until he bad made her lay to the extent of £350 or thereabouts. I say, Bill, that wasn't bad to get for liquidating £150. He might not know hiw to place a case in Court, but he knew how to catch the eggs. Some of these eggs, for instance, ought to have gone to another company called the ' flour of Darkness,' but they didn't. Some sixty-eight or seventy pounds worth of eggs are'kept 'in trust' but for a couple of years past the.' Hour of Darkness' has.been whistling for them. But bless your heart, Bill, that is the secret of good liquidating; .gather iu all the money' due, and what doesn't go in law costs keep it in trust rny boy, keep it iu trust. But this, was only one of half-a-dozen liquidations proceeding at the same time, and whenever an egg was wanted he gave them a squeeze, Bill; he gave them a squeeze, my boy. In fact it was known, that whenever a company went into his hands, for liqiiihtion, it was liquidated. Bill, my boy, I'll liquidate. Who Knows but I might oven take a public position, and by making use of*my friends when they are useful, to kick, them away, when they. ce\se-,to be of any use to me, I might even.taste public money and supplement my liquidation by crumbs from the public table," , •■ :i