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Indeed. It is best to keep one's tradesmen and the like in the cleft stick of credit. Providing it is not overdone they are less likely dispense with one's custom if there is a bill or two outstanding.
With clubs it is better members use the black ball than to get them out after joining. A lesson mine has now learned very well.
One of Pa's jokes (perhaps real and even first hand) was a naval officer who paid up his tailor in full. "Oh, Sir, you are not abandoning us for another clothier I hope?".
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David V
Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself. It struck him dead and serve him right
It is the duty of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan
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