You know Purse, that keeps the gen'ral store?
Wa'al, he come to me some months ago, on the quiet, an' said that he wanted to borro' five hunderd.

He didn't want to git no indorser, but he'd show me his books an' give me a statement an' a chattel morgidge fer six months.

He didn't want nobody to know 't he was anyway pushed fer money because he wanted to git some extensions, an' so on.

I made up my mind it was all right, an' I done it.

Wa'al, about a month or so after he come to me with tears in his eyes, as ye might say, an' says, 'I got somethin' I want to show ye,' an' handed out a letter from the house in New York he had some of his biggist dealin's with, tellin' him that they regretted"-- here David gave John a nudge--"that they couldn't give him the extensions he ast for, an' that his paper must be paid as it fell due--some twelve hunderd dollars.