I'LL NO TRUST YE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 160, 9 July 1877, Page 4

I'LL NO TRUST YE.

'■'■ Two. centuries ago it was thought an insult in the Highlands to ask a note from a debtor. It was considered ; the same thing as saying I doubt yonT honor." If parties had business matlera. to transact they stepped into, the air, fixed their eyes on the heavens, and each repeated the obligation with no mortal wicriess. A mark was then carved upon some rock or tree near by as a remembrance of the compact Suoh a thing as a breach of contract was rarely met with, so highly did the people regard their honor. When the

march of tha improveoienl brought the new mode of doing business, they; . Wafe often pained by these innovations.! An. anecdote is handed :do;wnr --af/ g_ farmer who had been; ta the -toWi a&daj ag-jj iearued; worldif v ; wisdoia. On! returning to his native, parish he had! need of .a. sum of money, and fnade bold! to ask frooi- a gentletaaa of meaosi named Thia waa kiodlyj gifanted, and .Mr Stewart . eojj^ted outj the gofd. tW done, the farmer wrote! a reoeinjE md offerad ii --to; v^fiewart.i "^hat .iß.: ; fchj"s, „-man ? "--ipkloA* 'Mrj jft* et !3 r *» ifc l * a receip6,',Bir, biadiogtuai to give ye back yergoldat the right! .replied Sandy. " BTnding;.yej? j Weif, my maq,.if ye canna truat-your- ! Bel', 'l'm sure Pii' nb" trrfsY 'yd. le| Caloa have ,'my goldV' '■ And giai^er^g ; itf-ap, he put it back in hia deak aad j turned hia key oa it. (r ßui, BU%7Ei might die," retu-fhecl the canny Scotch- : man, bringing, up an argument T iu-lavor i of- his- new wisdom, "and perhap^ojy j sons may refuse Jt-ye;, but theTjitofpaper would J c6dji>Qltogra.'' " Compel them to sustain a dead father's .toMr-l'lvtiried tha Gelt;- ".Ttiti^ll- de& compelling to do*^ right, if this is the I^E.'iy?'?§_J!?adiog.. thecn^ -You_can ; ga^ng i elsewhere . for money j but -ye'H find nane ini, the put more faith in a bit "o* paper, than in his neighbw's, word of honor rand hia. feffto' $od. M ;-',. : " /.' y.yy-y