But, what was worse, when I looked into the securities there was no clause of redemption.
* Methods of preying upon the necessities of the Government.
MRS.

BULL .-- No clause of redemption, say you?
That's hard.
JOHN BULL .-- No great matter.

For I cannot pay them.

They had got a worse trick than that.

The same man bought and sold to himself, paid the money, and gave the acquittance; the same man was butcher and grazier, brewer and butler, cook and poulterer.