HIGH-TONED MR JONES.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4420, 5 March 1883, Page 4

HIGH-TONED MR JONES.

There once lived in the city of Boston a certain Mr Jones. This same Mr Jones was an eccentric man—very much so; and among his many-other peculiarities was that of failing in-business once in every two years. Some people now a-days have the same extraordinary habit. Mr Jones „•jways paid his creditors fifty per cent— V:99, more nor any less than fifty per cent. : *, A Very dignified and pompous man was ■ Jones. Mr Jones failed again—made an assignment of his effects as usual—and '"' tr»g very much surprised when''his' as» n^c'iee said to him. * ' ' ' '. 'j "Mr Jones, we shall declare a dividend of forty per cent. ,v ' " Sir ! " said Mr Jones, in a dignified ' manner, 7 " you must make it fifty, sir^ I always pay fifty cents on a dollar, sir;" "It can't be done! " said the assignee. , "It shall be done !" said Mr Jones,

elevating ,his right hand. , ■ , ;: " W^'nave not enough of property in our hands to do it," said the assignee.

, ti ; f,Sjr.L".faidMr Jones, •• declare, fifty „,^-per' cejiti :s. always pay fifty per cent. ;f;oj^nd, sir, if you have not sufficient^ pro- % kp^rtf ,iv your, hands to pay fifty per cent. 'will'pay the balance out of my own