Tax-Title Beer.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1893, 23 August 1884, Page 6 (Supplement)

Tax-Title Beer.

" Vhas dere soooh a thing as some tax-titles on a man's house and lot ? " he asked as he entered the City Treasurer's office the other day. "Why, yea. Sometimes the property is sold for taxes and bid in, and the bidder then has a tax-title to the land." " How many folks can haf tax-titles ? " " That ia hard to say." " Couldn't twenty men ha! some tax-titles on me?" " Probably not." "Veil, dot's shtfsf-rjffiiat I tell my old vhomams, bqt she sHaJj&'Berflelf all oafer und , cry jiike a shild. * bou^ * week * g0 a i

stranger olpmeg into my blace and asps I vhas a good feHow, und he doan' like to make me troubles. Bf has a tax- title on me, bat he gifs it oop if \ treats him. Vhell, dot seems aheafi enough, x \und he wipes oil his shin and goes avhay.'* \ " And anotltefccame ? " 11 Anodef ! t"h^> sir, I count oop more ash twenty I Eafery day last yheek somepody comes aroundt mit a tax title on me, and some days I haf three. Each man he comes in und says I vhaß a goot citizen und he doan' like to make me troubles, und den he tells me dot he has some tax titles on my lot. I vha9 kept so scart all der time I can't half do peeaneas." " Have you one of the papers •with you ? " " I see n6 bapers at all. Each man who has a tax-title signs his name on a sheet of bapfr dot he quit olaims on me." He was told that it was a new wrinkle among the dead-bsats to drink his beer without pay, and when he fully understood the situation he smiled all over and replied : " Say, dot vhas a goot one on me, but you keep Bhtill; as soon aa I get home somepody will come in mit a tax-title on me. I tells him to fiit down, und I looks der door und calls in my dog und dor oldt vhomans nnd my poy Shon. Den dot tax-title vhi3 shutnp oaf er tables und chairs und be knookid down und bit und dragged out until somepody can't rest. Like der poys say, I hitch on I Keep shtill I Tax-titles vhas going out of peesness on my shtreet I "