Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1840-06-20
HARD TINES HARE TIMES !

"Can't YOU pay me little money on your note
to-day p said a bard. working mechanic Of our ac
ouain,ance, the other day 10 a man, who was dri.
wing hae horse before dashng one hundred dol
lar sleigh trimmed with twa buhalos robes "Csnt
YOU pay mo a little money am 10 great want 10
buy provisions for my family" Z" really cannot !"
was the laconic reply. The times are 80 hard
cannot The whip cracked aud he dashed on
Ali said I TO myself, ere these times so hard is
money 50 scarce that the industrious poor cannot be
compensated for their labor ! will observe the
saving aud dcinga ofmen for one day and see.
"Ohl these hard times + said the man IN the
sleigh as he was wrapped in his bullalces. ! fol-
lowed him 10 the biiaId table, and saw him hose
ten games and twice as many sllings, which were
paid nc free as water There were no hard times
10 this man when the music OF the billiard balls
ialls sweelly on his ear nor would he hesitate 10
stake fifty times tho mechanics note on game OF
bfaR. these hard times.
"Ohl these hard times I" said the man in broad
cloth to his washer-wOmsn, as he turned away from
her bill fur the last months washing. ~ have no
msney now !" and he flung himself into the street
saw him pay ten dollars Tor a gold headed rattan.
and iwenty for new fashioned fur cap. He never
lhinLe OF hard times when be wants TO deck out his
own dandy.
"Oh these hard lmes!" said the father as he
turned away the sch0olmaster who had presented
his bill Tor the quarters tuition Of his "Three
dollars in these hard times for school teaching |
cannot psy YOU but one. Soon after he paid the
dancing master ten dollars for teaching the same
child the gen,eel accomplishment of dancing and
said nothing about hard times.
"Ahl these hard ,imss" said a robust red. faced
man, as he turned of his lumber Of brandy and
sugar; II can see no prospect OF better Hard times
these for poor man to make money. canno, re,
"a bttu az T.. las Ill
the dainties. Why landlord, as you live, have Mad
10 DO without butter in my family for q month and
can get no money 10 buy any. Good brandy that
and he filed another lumbler. Thus goes this
strong able-bodied mans time and money, lhsss
hard imes."
"Oh! these hard tines" said the merchant, L
the poor woman who asked him to throw of shii
ling from the price Of piece of calico, which h
was selling at one hundred per cent advance. eve
oAnnot take cent less these hard times" AT III,
the ten pin alley saw him pay fifty times as mucl
as he refused 10 allow the poor woman. Thus oul
merchant spent his money these hard times.
"Ohl these hard times !" said a loaler az h,
stretched his egs out over three chairs by cur stove
"0h these hard times and there he sat all day re-
pealing like parrot, "oh hard tmes' hard times
hard timeal!i' And pitied the man from IN,
soul, for believe he though. it was hard times
when he alone was 10 blame for being lazy anC
spending what is better Than money, these hare
times.
"Oh these hard timcsp said & young man VIII,
had 1eta married year. al do not know how
shall hive this winter can &c, no money to buy IN
winter stores" And | followed him home, where
found man. woman, aud boy, hired TO wal, on bin
and his wife. 10 these hard times.
"ohi OH these hard times" and thought
these men would be Industrious and economical, an
content to 1--we within their means these hard time
would soon become easy, aud 10 concluded thes
hald times would be attributed 10 these lazy spend
ing men. And while these hard times conlinu,
the industrious must support the idle.
PooR RICHARD.
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