Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1859-10-01
VARIETY.
Burling, the New York nnn

nv ~ ~ hal'S'iCct, DuSlly driving the
quill, whom | heard quiet step behind
and then mild voice inqurns if had
the Transcript of certain Judgment against
one j. G.. O.-the protector of the great
Peg -gho-wohwah Company for selling In
dian Medicines [ looked up and saw
man whose twisted foot and palsied arm
were quite familiar to me, but of whose
name or calling knew nothing.
Yes" l replied, Z" / have the trans
cript"
"Wcll, want it," he said, "I'm going
to collect it for the creditor"
"Going to collect it - I exclaimed
4" Why, the Judgment is perfectly worth
less. Executions, and proceedings after
Judgment, and all ordinary means of grace
have long ago been exhausted upon o.
He is hopclcssly insolvent, and is, besides,
the most adroit scamp ever encountered"
What's that to me? ?' broke out the
visitor, in gruff, strong voice, quite diff
ferent from his first tones 4" Perhaps YOU
don't know who / am. I'm Burling, the
man about town You lawyer, and not
know me! ShcrifIs are good for nothing;
constablcs arc good for nothing; executions
and creditors bills are good for nothing
Give me the transcript-here's tue order
tor tt IL make the money out Of him"
| swivcllcd around my chair and stared
at tho man.
And will you be so good Mr.. Durl-
ing asked, "as to tell mo your p, ent
plan for supciseding officers and wrts, and
for squeezing blood out of turnips, and
cash out of the President of the Peg-ghe.
wah-wah Company"
How do it? you mean. Why I dun
'cm at their houses, dun en- in the street,
! dun EN- at the theatre, dun 'cm in
church, | catch 'cm early in the morning,
and stick to EN- all day; follow 'em up
wherever they go; 90 to meals and eat
with EN-; go to bed and sleep with 'em
give en- no peace night nor day. Sunday
nor week day, stick to en- like death to IA
dead nigger. A man owes debt. He
won pay it. | follow him up all the
week so he cant do any business, nor 90 to
sec his sweetheart, nor walk in Broadway,
nor cat with any appetite, nor sleep with
out dreaming I'm after him, with the devil
to help run him down. All this won't do
Very well. When he goes to church, Sun
day he tindsmc in his pew. (Your sher-
ills cant work Sundays-I do my best
thcn.) The congregation rise, and he RI
scs, takes out his book, opens at the place,
and there he finds the bill I've stuck there,
and gets so mad he can't say amen"
"Shcritfs and constablcs," continued ho,
getting loud and fierce; "will a sheriff 90
of Sunday morning to parsons house,
and follow him to church, and walk up the
broad aisle with him before all the congrc.
CATION, and 90 mp the pulpit stairs close to
his heels, and slip into the pulpit after
him before he can shut the door. and take
scat By his side, and get up when he gets
up, and when he opens the Bible opens
John Jones bill full length, and lays it
down over the chapter and verse; and tell
him: There's that bill of horse hrc-pay
it before you preach But, that s what |
did, and got my money, too"
''And what commission did you charger"
Fifty per cent"
Rather strong" | suggested, "but
still your mode of procedure was strong
DO you often get as much as fifty per cent?"
"When / earn it, get it. Dr. c., of
broadway, sent me to dun fellow who
lived back in ayard and kept two bull dogs
that he let loose when anybody came to
collect hopest debts. went to him with
horse pistol in each hand and Dir. C.s
bill in my teeth, and made him pay up
What did Dr. offer me for getting his sixty
dollars? lie offered me one dollar.
won't take it, says I. I'll pny no more
says he. Pay me thirty dollars, says l.
Get out Of my cAicc or I'll kick you out,
says ne. Pay nc thiity dollars, says l.
Clear out, says he, and he kicked me out Of
his door and down the steps into Broadway.
goes across to the - botel and hires "A
great arm chair out of the bar-room, and
takes it across the street and plants it on
the curb.stonc right opposite DR.. C.'s Of
fee door, and [ lays the bill | had made
out on full sheet of foolscap across my
knees, hanging down so everybody that
went by could read in large, black, sandcd
letters:
TO J. BURLINd, DR..
For collecting of Richard Roe:
Commission, $50.
"And all the crowd kept stopping to
read, so that there was all the while two or
three hundred people standing on the doc
tors pavement and reading first my bill
and then his sign, and making their jokes.
L had hired the chair for the whole after
noon; but he hadn't ood this more than
fifteen minutes before he comes to the
door, and says, come here, you rascal, and
went in and took thirty dollars of his
money, and left the bill reeeipted"
But, my friend don't yOur impudent