Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1877 — Collecting a Debt. [ARTICLE]

Collecting a Debt.

At last a man has been found who has got even with the demon debt collector. One of the hideous tribe took a trip up the country this spring to try and get a debt of $l5O out of a small hotel-keeper who was in arrears to his liquor-mer-chant. Boniface received him politely, and said that he would give him something on account the next morning, as he expected a gentleman then in the house to pay him a bill. The dollarsqueezer, of course, staid over nigh* - -, got up the next morning, called for his bill, paid $3 for his board and lodging to the clerk, and then went for the proprietor to get the promised coin. After hanging round all the forenoon, the smiling debtor held a COllSllltutiun with hin elork, which resulted in a three half-dollars being extracted from the drawer and duly handed to the impatient dun. “ What’s this ?” he yelled. “ Dollar and a half,” returned my host; “you are the party I expected to pay uie a bill this morning, and I think I’ve done a pretty square thing in giving you 50 per cent, of it. Hand me a receipt for the amount and credit me with it on the bill.” —Man Francisco Chronidle.