Willie and the mortage, showing how much may be accomplished b y a boy . ver they pleased. It is no matter about the money. he would say ; I will trustvoii as longf as vou please. BESSIE. 31 Ruin brought upon Old Tomms customers. When Tomms had got a customer considerably in debt to himby these means, he would call upon him for payment at a timewhen he knew very well that the man had no money, and thenmake him give up a horse or a cow, or some of his sheep, to sat-isfy the debt. In these cases he would always get these animalsfor much less than they were worth, so as to make a great profiton t
Willie and the mortage, showing how much may be accomplished b y a boy . ver they pleased. It is no matter about the money. he would say ; I will trustvoii as longf as vou please. BESSIE. 31 Ruin brought upon Old Tomms customers. When Tomms had got a customer considerably in debt to himby these means, he would call upon him for payment at a timewhen he knew very well that the man had no money, and thenmake him give up a horse or a cow, or some of his sheep, to sat-isfy the debt. In these cases he would always get these animalsfor much less than they were worth, so as to make a great profiton them when he came to sell them again. After he had thus gotaway all the movable property of his customers, he would still goon getting them in debt, and then finally take away their shops ortheir farms, to pay the debts they owed him, and thus would, inthe end, ruin them entirely. When, at length, they had no moreproperty that he could take from them, then, of course, he wouldnot trust them any more. Then, being driven out of the comfort-able houses where thev had once. lived, these poor men would beforced to move into some wretch-ed shanty or hovel in the outskirtsof the town, and live there in ut-ter destitution. They would be-come, too, so disheartened anddiscouraged at their misfortunes,and so degraded by the influenceof drink, that they would ceaseto make any further effort, andgive themselves up a prey tohopeless despondency. It was amelancholy sight to see the chil-dren of such a family as this gath- 32 BESSIE. Poor children trying to warm themselves. Beginning of Mr. Joyns troubles.
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