A Detroit Robinson.
A citizen who has an office on Monrce avenue has for the last three yeare been owing a grocery bill. The grocer's collector called on him over one hundred times to se3Uie payment of the debt, but was klwaya put off with some excuse or other. At ono time it was death, another sickness, another time bad luck, and so it went on until it really seemed impossible for the debtor to invent any new pleas. The other day the giocer himself took the bill in his fi3t and cornered the debtor in hia office. " Yes, I know — very sorry — hand you the money a v/cck from to day," was the smiling excuse. " See hero 1 " said the grocer, aa he locked the door and pulled oft hia coat ; " I've been figuring on this matter. This bill is for $15. I can give you the worst licking a man ever received and get off with a fine of §10. I'll then give you a i\ccipt for the other five and the account will b3 closed. Prepare to be pulverized ! " "But suppose I lick you— then what?" queried the other. " Then there won't ba any resort to the law, and you shall have a receipt in full 1 " •' That pecms to be fair, and I'll do my best," said the debtor, and at it they went. The grocer expected to get away with him in about a minute, bat he was a deceived man. I It wasn't over three rnihutes before ho was knocked over a chair and rendered hors da cotnbat. " Is it a receipt in full ?" asked the debtor as he sat astride of the other and kept both hands fastened in his hair. " Sho is I" " And you'll pay me $2 Jn cash for the broken furniture ?" " Yes." " Then you may get up, and I'lhecommend you to a doctor who'll fix your broken collarbone as good as new inside of a week." The grocer gave him a receipt for tho account, and handed over $2 in cash, and later in the day, when telling the story in hia store, he explained : " Gentleman, I've sassed.-gcores of citizens, abused dozens of hackmen, and been aching for three years past for a chance to pulverize some one. It's worth $J 7to me to know thai; my grit gives out with the first round I" — Free Press.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1884, 2 August 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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398A Detroit Robinson. Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1884, 2 August 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)
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