THE BITTER BIT!

– A poor fellow, who had spent hundreds of dollars at a certain groggery, seeing one day faint and feeble, and out of change, asked the landlord to trust him for a glass of liquor.

• “No,” was the reply. “I never make a practice of doing such things.”

The poor fellow turned to a gentleman who was sitting by, and whom he had known in better days, saying –

• “Sir, will you lend me a sixpence?”

• “Certainly,” was the reply.

The landlord with alacrity placed the decanter and glass before him. He took a pretty good horn, and having swallowed it and replaced the glass with evident satisfaction, he turned to the man who had lent him the money, and said: -

• “Here, sir, is the sixpence I owe to you - I make it a point, degraded as I am, to pay borrowed money before I pay my grog bill?”