VERY BAD PAYMENT FOR A BAD DEPT.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5058, 30 March 1885, Page 2

VERY BAD PAYMENT FOR A BAD DEPT.

" I can remember," said Henry Ward Beecher " when I received an old coir in payment of a bad debt. It was a Terr, bad debt, and I came to consider it a bad payment. She was a thin coir, bat the former owner said she was better than ibis looked, being a cross between Jersey and the Durham. She looked as if she might hare been a cross between an old hair trunk and an abandoned hoopskirt. I kept the brute three days, and no one ex* cept, perhaps, Lieutenant Atwell, could erer appreciate the suffering I endured, that time. The first night ibe broke through the fence and reduced to a pulp all the under clothing belonging to my next door neighbor. She put her horns through my bath tub, and ate up all* my geraniums. She was to give three gallons of milk a day, but she seemed short just-' then, and never had that to spare while we kept her. The second day she walked into the kitchen, upset a pan of batter and and a tub of lard. Then she fell down a well, and when I got her out, at a cost of $5, she took the colic, whooping-cough or something and kept us awake all night. Not a green thing was left in my garden ; my neighbor's peach trees and the rope on which his underwear grew were as bare of fruit as« singletree, and he did ' not hare a twig of shrubbery left. Mr neighbor came over to see me, and said: "' Now, I don't desire any quarrel, but I want you to keep your cow out of m* shrubbery.' ' \ .-.,*... "' And I want you, my friend,' - said I 'to keep your shrubbery out lof fflT cow.'" x 1