The Nevada Democrat., 1859-11-16
BURLrNG, THE NEW YORK DUN.

Ten years age was seated in my Office, ct
No. IL. Wall street, busiiy driving tbs quill,
when heard quiet step behind, aud then Al
mild voice inquiring II had the transcript Of
a certain Judgment against one J. @. o. the
President Of the great Peg-ghe-wah.wah com.
pany for selling Indian medicines. looked
up and saw q man whose twisted foot and pal
sled arms were quite familiar to me, but OF
whose name or calling knew nothing.
"Yes,' / replied, IL have the transcript"
"Well, want IT," be said "Pm going to
collect it for the creditor"
"Going to collect i'll" exclaimed, "wby
the judgement is perfectly worthless. Execu.
tions and proceedings after judgment, and oil
ordinary means Of grace have long ago been
exhausted upon o.. He is hopelessly In
solvent, and is, besides, the most adroit scamp
Of swindler ever encountered"
"What's that TO mep broke out the visitor
bis first tones. "Perhaps you don't know who
am. I'm Burling, the man about town. You
a lawyer and not know mel Sherifs are good
for nothing; executions and creditors bills are
good for nothing. Give me the transcript
here's the order for it--pll make the money
out Of him."
/ swiveled around in my chair and stared at
the man. "And will you be 80 good Mr.. Bur
ling" asked, "to tell me what Is your patent
plan for superseding ofncers and writs, and for
squeezing blood out of turnips, and cash out OF
the President Of the Peg-ghe-wah-wah COM
pany"
"How do It, you mean. Why, dun 'em
at their houses dun 'em in the street, dun
at the theater, dun 'em In church, / catch 'em
early in the morning and stick to 'em oil day;
follow 'em up wherever they go; go to meals
and eat with 'em; go to bed and sleep with 'em;
give 'em no peace night or day, Sunday nor
week day; stick to 'em like death 70 dead
niger. A man owes debt. He won't pay It.
follow him up all the week 80 he can't do any
business, nor go 10 see his sweetheart, nor walk
in Broadway, nor eat with any appetite, nor
sleep without dreaming. Pm after him Wild
the devil TO help run him down. All this won't
dol Very we'll When he goes to church sun
day he finds me in his pew. Your Sherins
can't work Sundays / do my best business
then.) The congregation rise, and be rises,
takes out his book, opens at the place, and
there no finds the bill I've stuck there, and
gets 80 mad he can't say amen"
"Sherifs and constables continued ne,
getting loud and fierce, "will a sheriff go OF a
Sunday morning to parsons house, and iol-
low him to church, and walk up the broad aisle
with him. before all the congregation, and go up
the pulpit stairs close to his heels, and slip into
the pulpit after him, before he can shut the
door. and take seat by his side, and get up
when he gets up, and when be opens the Bible,
open John Jacobs bill full length, and lay IL
down over the chapter and verse, and tell him
"Thcre's that bill Of horse hire; pay it before
you prcachp But that's what did-apd got
my money, too"
"Ffty 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 1t. DR.. O., OF Broad
way. sent me to dun fellow who lived In
back yard, aud kept two bull dogs that he let
loose when any body came to collect honest
debts l went to him with horse pistol In
each hand and Dr. C.'s bill 10 my teeth, and
made him pay up. What did Dr: y. oner me
for getting his sixty dollars-he offered me one
dollar.
"1 won't take it, says l.
"I'll give no more says he.
"'Pay me thirty dollars saysI.
acct out Of my Office, or Pll kick you OUT
says he.
'"Pay me thirty dollars saysI.
"Clcar OUT says he, and he kicked me out
of his door and down the steps into Broadway.
goes across to the --- hotel and hires great
arm chair out Of the bar room, aud takes 1t
across the street, aud plants 1t on the curbstone
right opposite DIR. C.'s Office door, and lays the
bill had made out on full sheet of foolseap
across my knees, hanging down so every body
that went by could read In large, black, sanded
letters
"Dr. c.
"To J. Burling, DR..
"For collecting of Richard Roe
"Commission S3O OO
"And all the crowd kept stopping to read,
SO that there was all the while two or three
hundred people standing on the Doctors pave
ment and reading first my bill and then his
sign, and making their jokes. had hired the
chair for the whole afternoon, but he hadn't
stood 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 receipted."
"But, my friend, don't your impudent ways
often get you into scrapes are you not afraid
some one will some day break your headi"
"Break whose headG" he Numbered. "Didn't
Col. S., of New Orleans, man that's killed
seven men In duels, when wen. to him at the
Astor House, didn't he grab me by the slack Of
my breeches, aud hold me out Of the fifth story
window, and shake me there above the pave
ment, and say, Shall let you fall and break
your neck on the stones, or take you in and
kick you down stairss'"
"Well," said /, anxiOusly, "what did you do
then?"
"What did dos said pay me that money!
and didn't he pull me in aud pay me every
cent?"
The intensity Of his manner, as be thus re-
lated his exploits, cannot be rendered on paper,
especially when he exclaimed with closed teeth
aud the fingers OF his round hand clenohed-
"pay me that money"
| He took the transcript, aud limped out. In
another day the hapless debtor, and oVermatch
for all the regular thumb-screws Of the law,
came in to beg piteously would call of the
bloodhound. told him II was tho oreditor's
affair, not mine. Next day met Burling al
the corner Of Courtland street, looking mild
and happy, and asked him how he succeeded
II havn't got It yet" was the reply. "He
hasn't found me out, but he has just paid me
Eve dollars to let him dine at the hotel down
there without my company. We've taken all
our meals together for the past two days, and
he began to tiud his appetite fail"
never learned whether he credited the five
dollars on the bill, or retained 1t as perquisitt
of his business