THIS WAS CASH.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3018, 26 February 1881, Page 4

THIS WAS CASH.

An oldish man who was on his way West took a lunch at the eating-stand in the Detroit, Grand Haven and Milwaukee depot, and in payment tendered a 20 dollar Confederate note. " We don't take this sort of money here," said the attendant, as he scanned tho bill. "Don't,eh? Very well. Customs differ in localities- They take it in some places and refuse it in others. No particular harm done to offer it. How's this bill ?" It was an old wild-cat bill of 1840, and it was handed back with the remark that ifc wouldn't pas3"Won't he? Well, no great harm to offer it. Are you willing to take my note of hand for sixty days for this sum ? n "No/sir." "Won't, cli ? There are places wherethey will and places were they won't. Thh seems to be a place where they won't. No crime, though, to propose it. Do you think I would have any success in standing you off?" "No, sir." " I'presume not, but the inquiry seemed pertinent. Does it appear to you as if I would have to pay this bill in cash ?'* " It does." " Strikes me the same way, too. There are times when it seems impossible to wriggle out of cash payments. I have saved as a last resort. Are you willing to look upon me as an object of charity and donate me this thirty cents' worth of luncheon ?". •' No, sir, I am not." " That's what I expected, but I thought it no harm to make it. I see no other way except to pay cash. Please take your change out of this fifty cents." The right change having been handed him, he heaved a sigh of relief and sat down to pick his teeth with a splinter from thebroom.