THE WICKED GAS MAN.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4833, 5 July 1884, Page 4

THE WICKED GAS MAN.

Yo,ri would have said as you looked him over that he was a man of fiery temper, and that; it wouldn't take over two " sass > words," to make him peel off bis" coat and sail in for victory or death, but you would have been sadly mistaken. He was writing away in his ledger when a man < / came in, shoved his gas bill into the window* and said: "Is this where they knock a man down and rob him ?" The man at the window smiled. "Because

it's no more or less than a highway robbery- to send me a bill like that! * Twelve'dollars for gas for January, and the m.eanest kind, of gas at that!" The smile continued. " Why people will staud such outrageous treatment is a pnnle to me," (continued the man, as be flung his'money in after the bill.* VI j. never burned 6dol'worth of gas last month, and I'll swear to to it 1" The rebate was

deducted,."change mafle, and the man at the window parsed it out with a " Thank you.""""YesV 1 it's robbery!"- muttered ( the other, " and I'll be hanged if I can't , lick any three in Detroit." He expected fl reply, but none was given. The smile faded out to some extent, but perhaps < that was because the pen made a blot on the ledger. The next comer was a short, fet woman,' with an eye full of brimstone, andyou could see,she was aching for a riot. "Can I have my, pocket picked in here?" "He"smiled. "And robbed of the bread which my fatherless children are, crying for?" He nodded. "And Bwindled out of money that I havo had to work for^ like a~ilaTe?V "Tes'm." "Oh ! I thought so. 1 *Here is my gas bill. Jt is over 6dq1.1" He nodded. "Do you hear me~oTer 6dol?" He heard. •• And '< I didn't have tjut one burner going, and '■■ that'was shut off for four straight nights ! And I can,bring, 20 witnesses to swear that the gas was so poor that I couldn't read the accounts of the flood in my j newspaper.'' He brushed up his hair and glance/L out'of the window.' "111 never pay it! "Every one of my neighbours have .advised me .to sfaud a law suit first!" He 'drammed on' (he desk with hiq Sneers " But Twill pay"it this tirae, as ray sister is 1 sick, and I don'fc want the lawyers kicking in the' door and climbing through .the v windows." He held butbis hand.. "But 'another time I'd law you—l'll law you , from Halifax to Haverstraw before I'll payL tbereV tbe^mohey !" He made change, whistling softly to himself, and as she putjthe biil'.in her pocket'she snapped 1 out " Evln a grave robber ought to have a a little conscience !" But lie didn't hear her. He wasjfiguring at the ledger again. '

The Bad and Worthless

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