A Curiosity.
A great curiosity has been sho*n to the Melbourne Araus by Mr. Melville, of Melville, Mullen and Slade It is a promissory DOte £624 14s 7d, drawn at 12 months bj James Ballant yne an* Coy., of Edinburgh, and accepted by Sir Wai. ter Scoit, of Abbotsford, who c si nature appears at the bo.'torn of the bill and not across its face. The document is evidently one of that mass of accommodo tion bills which the great novelist so rashIf accepted for the publish-in? firm at the time John Palmer was seized with a fever of speculat on, and whei he might be heard whistling for his clerk, John Stephenson, from his -a' cum behind th-* shop, and exclaiming, " Jcck you lubber, fetch ben a sheaf o' stamps. " This little slip of paper w : th its faded i*ik, was therefore one of the primary causes ot the financial disasters winch ruined poor Scott, taxed his brain almost to exhaustion, clouded the latter years of his life, anl shortened his days.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 3
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173A Curiosity. Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 51, 28 August 1895, Page 3
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