CHAPTER XXVIII.TROUBLE WITH BILLOT.
THERE may be hopes of my bloomers survivin the election, but I tell you it takes stitchin and soin to do it. That State platform ort a been like the county platform, or else the county platform like the State. Then my bloomers would a been all alike—both legs made of the same kind of stuff—and wouldent a needed this whippin and stitchin and soin.
Jobe is in a fix agin.
Our interest falls due the 20th of October, and you remember it is payable in gold.
“Billot jist laffed at him.”
“Billot jist laffed at him.”
“Billot jist laffed at him.”
Well, what do you think? Jobe sold his hay and wheat to Billot, the miller, and took Billot’s note for $37.60, and yisterday, when Jobe went to git his money, Billot counted him out paper money for the amount.
Jobe told him that he wanted gold.
Billot jist laffed at him, and told Jobe that paper money was legal tender in sich bizness as this.
“Jobe he got mad and called Billot a Populist.”
“Jobe he got mad and called Billot a Populist.”
“Jobe he got mad and called Billot a Populist.”
Jobe told him that we was on a “gold basis,” and that he had to have gold to pay Banker Vinting his interest.
Billot said he had nothin to do with Jobe’s interest or Banker Vinting; that Jobe could take that paper money or nothin.
Jobe he got mad and called Billot a crank and a Populist and all sich terrible names.
Then Billot ordered Jobe out of the mill, and Jobe went off and sued Billot for $37.60 in gold.
Jobe says he’ll teach Billot that gold is the money of this country. He says that Billot thinks that jist becausehe is a old farmer that he haint good enough to pay gold to.
Do you think Jobe will git the gold from Billot?
I will have to go to the trial next Monday and help Jobe inforce the law agin Billot.
Jobe is a full-blooded American citizen and has voted the strait ticket since he was twenty-one, and Billot will learn by the time he gits done with that lawsuit that this gold basis bizness is for the low-toned people as well as the high-toned people.
The idea of paper money bein money!