Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — The Dun Done For. [ARTICLE]

The Dun Done For.

A gentleman has just died in Paris who owed most of his celebrity to the quaint manner in which he managed to disembarrass himself of his creditors. No sooner did a dun present himself than he was ushered into a room hung round with a variety ol mirrors, some convex, others concave, etc. In one the unfortunate creditor beheld himself with a head as flat as a flounder; in another his features were nearly as sharp as a knife: in a third he had several heads; in a fourth he was upside down. Here he had the broad grin of a clown, there the long,-ctrawn visage of an undertaker. On one side of the room he saw himself all head and no body, on the other side it seemed as if a dwarf had put on the boots of a giant. No applicant, however pressing, was known to resist this chamber of horrors for more than a quarter of an hour.