:: Never give in to the station agents, writes iEgles in the Australasiea.lt they trj to bounce you about-the-state of ;your account after two years' drought don't try $o work upon their sympathies,'"but let"them have, bounce' in return. : From one of themselves I heard thg.othejrdiiy how a station owner had got very deep in -tiie books of. a Melbourne fifth towards 'the.end of the last previous'drought. The firm became very uneasy about this advances. They wrote to him that' if., he did:not within a month reducerhis indebtedness they would exercise' their right of foreclosure. But they.^goi jw unexpected and laconic reply, "Fore* close, and be (ahem ed) to *-ybtu* "But don't send me any more insolent letters. 1' And Vhen-'one TbFUfe' firm tetL&th&wply, he.saidrto his partner, "Tl>ere is something in that fellow. Let's 'give hint' another season." They did, . and that " fellow " i 3 one of their richest and moßs profitable clients.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2575, 9 April 1877, Page 2
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