Paying Debts Eighteen Years old.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 82, 10 March 1885, Page 4

Paying Debts Eighteen Years old.

• New Yprkv'-Dec. : 30.-At the stiOy.e ll of-.a.,fir^ > Q£ \iqjipx fleers,, ojie, ' of the oldest.on;iEront^Btrie'ets'yesier--1 day| a l str&nger e.hteredj and .enquired, ' foiiKe 1 f se"ili^ p4rjtiier' > s i 'f?i ; fheri i - • '•■'■ I" ::ff Mess yQ.u.v^saj&jtlie 'senior part-; j her, " my fatiher tfias^een deacf i',for : . lyears:.'?."';^ I :. 1 '•"'"' \ •••■'••>i^..-. ,;„;,<. : .y\« Well, li'qyie tlie firrh ; lj a jl ji;Ale .moneys''' said the' stranger, ■? and iw^nt 'to 'pay' it: I wish yoli would ;looli at the books land see how rn'itch (i'tisr Then changing; the subjest 'he said^ I "1 want tq.go.ta; ]^r/}oj{■^yn:, v ' f -'''l^thfe ; 'firidge,-str^t^ei?ry-'ru Tn--;nrag?" ?';: 1^ >*l ' "-^rhe soniov I partner was dazed, | f^l'he Jjpdge^treet fenf^^to'pp^d I vupning ;|ift^enyear^ ; ag^o vM ;^e -Mid. " Well I can take the. Fulton ferry, then. I owe some brewers over there a Ilt'tfe 'Bill. ' Wlii.le I'm gane • look up my bill." ; ; "::;',;v:v :;;//, \^ vi " : ■ He* 1 gaye 1 ' his■n am c ■ an d< ; . departed . se.nipr partner began to : over--naul(his.'iedgers ? and ' li^lir's wtfrk'fotond the n'ameias iPar (l bacic as; "i,S6d v ! 'Tlie -man 1 owed' the- firm! 294d015.' 70c. : hv 'i\ib' afternrion , the. stranger earned '; back^ ■ :drew a big; pocKet-book from "his pocket .••and! counted „put 'the 'money.. '^Dont; you know that the debt, is outlawed "three times over?" asked the senior partner. „r , ; " That-miie^ no difference. I always pay my debts. Sorry I wasn't aj>|g.jp jjay before. It kept me awak^iglits.' x^v^. i " You^p^geridehian, l ' said the senior pafiirer....^ .^•Tfike a drink." ; " Tljanl^-you,'' _>I hev'er drink,' 1 ' 1 said the^t?!ance;rvaslie walked out;