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Wen I giv Squire Edwards that air leetle morgidge on my farm, money wuz plenty, an I callated tew pay it up easy; an naow thar ain't no money, an I can't git none, if I died for't. It's jess zif I 'greed tew sell a load o' ice in January, an a thaw come an thar wan't no ice leff. Property's wuth's much 'z ever I callate, an't orter be good fer debts instead o' money, 'cordin to a far valiation."
Harum told ye to say that that morgidge he holds, havin' ben past due fer some time, an' no int'rist havin' ben paid fer, let me see, more'n a year, he wants to close the matter up, an' he'll see her Chris'mus mornin' at the bank at nine o'clock, he havin' more time on that day; but that, as fur as he can see, the bus'nis won't take very long' somethin' like that, you understand?"
"About this here morgidge o' your'n," he said, "I sent ye word that I wanted to close the matter up, an' seein' 't you're here an' come fer that purpose, I guess we'd better make a job on't. The' ain't no time like the present, as the sayin' is." "I s'pose it'll hev to be as you say," said the widow in a shaking voice.
'No, I says, 'I ain't buyin' no real estate jest now, but the thing I come in fer, I says, 'leavin' out the pleasure of havin' a talk with you, was to say that I'd take that morgidge off'm your hands. "Wa'al, sir, he, he, he, he! Scat my ! At that he looked at me fer a minute with his jaw on his neck, an' then he hunched himself, 'n drawed in his neck like a mud turtle.
My name is Professor Diamond, and I am the inventor of the Telauto " But Hiram's curiosity did not extend to the professor's science. "The idee is," he broke in, eagerly, "did Ferd Parrott say anything about a morgidge and bill of sale bein' on this property, and be you prepared to clear off encumbrances?" "I am," declared the professor promptly.
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.
But all the time when he wanted money an' he wanted it putty often I tell ye the easiest way was to stick on a morgidge; an' after a spell it got so 't he'd have to give a morgidge to pay the int'rist on the other morgidges." "But," said John, "was there nothing to the estate but land?"
'What d'you mean? he says. 'I mean, says I, 'that I've got a second morgidge on that prop'ty, an' I begin to tremble fer my secur'ty.
He stood with his feet aggressively wide apart, one hand in his trousers pocket, and holding in the other the "morgidge," which he waved from time to time in emphasis.
"Le's see!" said Hiram, fingering his nose, "was it real money or Confederate scrip that you let him have on your morgidge?" "Thutty-five hunderd ain't much on the most central piece of real estate in this village," declared the Cap'n, in stout defence. "It's central, all right, but so is the stomach-ache," remarked Hiram, calmly.
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