An Affecting Incident.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 140, 16 July 1872, Page 7

An Affecting Incident.

We hear (says the Wanc/auui UrmUl) of a I circumstance almost too good to he true, i which happened lately within a hundred miles ]of Wanganui. The effects of a recent hank- ; nipt had been removed to the stores of the I trustee, and that worthy personage, ass's ed I by the supervisors, was busily engaged in taking an inventory, Ac., when a folded and well-worn piece of notepaper dropped out of I a bundle of old things. “ Just see what that I is,” said one of the supervisors to a person I present, who immediately picked it up. ■ “ This, gentlemen, is important, and, under i the circumstances, affecting,” said he, after having glanced at it, “1 think I had better give it yon,” and amidst roars of laughter, he read the following ; You are going far away, far away from all your debt, | There’s no one left to pay me now, and I fear | you will forget ; But my Bill shall follow you wherever you nay ! gi >, ! Can you look into my Ledger and deny me what j you owe ? I j When races you attend you’ll he madly betting i on. j Never thinking if you lose the stakes, that my 1 happiness is gone, I And should you chance to win, perhaps a gentleman you’ll be ; i l : d be jolly glad to hear of it if you’d settle up with me. When you wear your light moustache, your belltopper, ami paletot, I’m afraid you’ll be forgetting all the small accounts yon owe : With a ring upon your finger and a lady by your side, j You’ll he letting some poor tailor in to support you in your pride. 0, were I Lord John Russell, or, what’s hotter, Sir R. Peel, I’d have all such swindling gentlemen with a bailiff at their heel. All swindling should be stopped and business go on right, j By imprisoning all the bilking gang and those that slope by uigh*.