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Updated: May 12, 2025
'Suppose I hadn't the money? sez I. 'I should be obliged, sez he in a kind o' pained Christian-martyr way, 'ter sell YOUR hoss for two hundred, and send the money to my fr'en'. We looked at each other steddy for a minit and then I counts him out a hundred and fifty. He took the money sad-like and then sez: 'Mr. Borem, sez he, 'this is a great morril lesson to us, and went back to the office.
'Are you goin' out o' the bizness? "'No, I'm only goin' to change that sign from "Dan'l Borem" to "Borem and Lummox," sez I. 'I've concluded it's cheaper for me to take you inter partnership now than to continue in this way, which would only end in your hevin' to take me in later. I preferred to DO IT FUST."
The "unexpected" which Dan'l Borem had hinted might characterize his future conduct was first intimated by his treatment of the "Widow Cully," an aged and impoverished woman whose property was heavily mortgaged to him. He had curtly summoned her to come to his office on Christmas Day and settle up.
Borem's clerk whose place he was to fill that he wouldn't be able to stand it, and thus received the character of his employer from his last employee. "I suppose," said Dan'l Borem, chuckling, "that he said I was a old skinflint, good only at a hoss trade, uneddicated, ignorant, and unable to keep accounts, and an oppressor o' the widder and orphan.
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