Garrison was unfortunate in this respect but it seems that Knapp was more so.

Neither took to book-keeping, and neither overcame his serious deficiency in this regard.

The consequence was that the books kept themselves, and confusion grew upon confusion until the partners were quite confounded.

Garrison naively confesses this fault of the firm to his brother-in-law thus: "Brother Knapp, you know, resembles me very closely in his habits of procrastination.

Indeed I think he is rather worse than I am in this respect!" The paper was issued originally without a single subscriber.