Letters From the South Written During An Excursion in the Summer of 1816 Volum
Letters From the South Written During An Excursion in the Summer of 1816 Volum
James Kirke Paulding
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Judging from his style of living and his habits, I at first thought fee must be very snug and comfortable in his cir- cumstances, till all at once I found myself in a drawer with two or three of those pleasant invita- tions beginning with, * Your note for so and so, becomes due, &ic. ' Whenever my master re- reived any of these mementos, he was seized with an alarming fit of the fidgets, and there was a ter- rible ' whipping of the cat, ' as it is called, on the days the notes become due. This ...whipping the cat, is nothing more than a parcel of traders puff- ing at one another's heels, of a morning, to bor- row money. One day one man is hunted for his money, and the next, when his own note becomes due, he hunts his neighbour, so that their funds are a common borrowing stock; and he who hunts as Acteeon one day, is a hunted Action the next. In short, having one day an accidental peep at my master's books, I discovered that he had been actually insolvent for more than five years. About a week after I had been with him, he sent me to a certain bank, to help take up a 173 note of hand.
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