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The storekeepers often felt that where they had to accept such dubious substitutes for cash they desired to give no credit, and some of the advertisements run: "Cheap, ready money store, where no credit whatever will be given," and then proceed to describe what ready money was, cash, furs, bacon, etc.
It seems that poor Dandy had taken the miserable material Edie's gown was made of as payment for a quantity of moss and eggs furnished by him at various times to one of the Darien storekeepers, who refused him payment in any other shape, and the poor fellow had no redress; and this, he tells me, is a frequent experience with all the slaves both here and at the rice island.
A good many of us are in the storekeepers' or mortgage-jobbers' hands, and there's no doubt that if I have another good year at the Range I shall clear off the debt." Agatha turned her face away from him for a moment or two. The thing the man had done laid a heavy obligation on her, and she remembered that she had only found fault with him.
Had these last no just and reasonable ground of complaint? complaint of the General Government, complaint of the delays in their payment, complaint of the swindling of the storekeepers and traders? They had sold their lands, and gone away to their reservations. But the money for their lands promised so faithfully at such a time where was that money? Non est!
Of course, I had my opinion; but as he represents the contractor you are working for, I couldn't urge him." "Thanks!" said Festing. "I wish I'd brought Charnock; he'd deal with this better." Kerr laughed. "Your partner has some talents and seems to have made Norton and my storekeepers his friends. If he hadn't, there might have been trouble about certain irregularities.
And there is one other thing that is worth while taking, even though it may cost from £30 to £50 or so in Sydney a good secondhand boat, with two suits of sails. Thus provided the sportsman can sail all along the coasts of Savaii and Upolu, and be practically independent of the local storekeepers.
I have seen a strong, violent man struggling for months to recover a debt, and getting nothing but an exchange of waste paper. The very storekeepers are averse to asking for cash payments, and are more surprised than pleased when they are offered. They fear there must be something under it, and that you mean to withdraw your custom from them.
He had undertaken to demonstrate one of Euclid's propositions every night by way of exercising his reasoning faculties. He was also making new acquaintances amongst men who were not diggers doctors, storekeepers, and the useful blacksmiths who pointed our picks with steel.
Moreover, now that you have been taken under Prince Rupert's protection, and have become, as it were, an officer on his ship for gentlemen Volunteers, although they have no duties in regard to working the ship, are yet officers it is hardly seemly that you should be making up the accounts of bakers and butchers, ironmongers, and ship's storekeepers."
So far Jim Done had every reason to be grateful for his luck; and the diggers were nearly all implicit believers in luck; a faith they held to be justified by the scores of instances recited of good fortune following individuals through extraordinary conditions, when less favoured men all around them were not earning enough to satisfy the storekeepers.
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