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To pay or not to pay, that is tbe question— wh -:h«r' tir better for in>* to refuse to tak«* a local paper, and deprive my family from reading 1 all tin* news, or ;iay" up. promptly wha» the printer asks, and hy such payment cheer him ? No |«uy, uo paper — then no more dial I f be (Misted in the news and local haps Mir ughout the town, and divert topics— 'tis a consummation tbat I long have feared To pay — to stop t lo «>top ! (tercbance t» lose — aye, there's the rub ! for in that stop no interest do i take in iv auy of tho affairs tbat move th. town, ana su h a thufflitig nf all that's good must make me pause. There's the rea}»ect which every editor maintains for those who coma down with tha cash aud ne'er delay to settle up "the little bill," for who would bear the pointed squibs and pungent paragraph, which rar too .oh reflects upon tb* mau who fails to settle his subscription bill? I'll baste me now unto the editor, and, with my purse pie* boric in uiy hand, will ae'tle up iv full, oue year from date, by paying to him from my rea»tf 1 c.sh the sum which i* hia due.— ; " Hawkeeye."
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 3
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218Brave Words Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 4, 19 June 1884, Page 3
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