The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-02
HUMOROUS.
A little Humor, now and then,
Is relished By TIE best Of men.
A Novel Mode of Paying a Debt.

- -O'Ns -AVUO VI al yAhss al Dcpts
A man by the name Of L, dread
fully in debt, being in bed one morning,
his wife who was looking through the
window curtains into the street, sudden
ly jumped aside. crying
Here comes your bootmaker, and from
her tone of voice one w ould have thought
the bootmaker was something terrible.
Where is he? he asked
AT the corner Of the street.
'Ah, then. we have time enough; and
since he persists in coming here every day
and complains that we won't open the
door TO him,--L. did not finish. but
sqringing from the bed, threw into the
burning fire the door key, and at the end
OF few seconds, he took the tongs and
threw it out heated to white he at and
run to the door put the key in the hole on
The out side and went to bed again per
iectly calm. A minute after heavy step
was heard OF the stairs. it approaches,
stops before the door, and all of sud.
den howl Of pain is heard, and the boot
maker fled al full speed
The next morning l.. was engaged in
pasting some bands over some prospectus
OF an affair he was experimenting.
All, screamed his wife, who was A.
gain a the window; here comes the boot
maker
DO you go off to your neighbour said
l., and leave the door partly open. =
And he immediatel commenced pas ting
his paper over the cracks of the only
window IN the room The bootmaker en-
tiers. his hands tied up, and Immediately
commences TO abuse and threaten his
debtor.
lam with youin a minute replied L.
mildly finishing his work
j do not leave this room without nv
money said the boot maker,
You are right replied L, Il only ask
you 10 give me one moment.
So saving, he went to work and shut
the door, locking it and put the key in
his pocket. He then took from the cor
PER furnace full of charcoal, which he
tights and begins to blow. The boot
maker looked on in surprise; L. continu-
ed to blow.
You claim from me, said he, 'the mon
ey which | owe you. Your demand is
just; YOU have worked for me and should
be paid for your labor.
He continued TO blow, the boot-maker
somewhat moved by the singularily and
the solemnity of his proceedings, was ST
lent.
You are. unfortunately. not the only
one. continued L. whose lust dues j
have been obliged to put off. Many more
than yourself come here.
A strange odor began ..to spread itself
through the room. The bootmaker
coughs and considers the furnace with
some anxiety. l.. blows all the time.
Come here, | say, and overwhelm me
with the II demands, and some mes. like
you, their abuses, what can do? | can't
pay; and am. on one side, in the most
profound grief al being unable to sat
isiy any engagement, and on tie other
cannot bear me affronts TO which | have
resolved to put amend to it all.
But, commenced the boot maker any
sously.
Bet replied L. blowing energeticallv
'all that you can say to me will not change
my irreyocable determination. you have
long punished mel forgive YOU
'Diahiep cried the boot maker. no lon
ger able to breathe; do what you will
with yourself, but open the door for me
i cannot pay, said l., and you sale
you would not leave the room without
your money. In the circumstance -