A leetle orter a been took orf the debt every year, instead o'
payin interes ontew it."
"I guess like's not ye hev the rights on't, Ezry. I wuzn't a thinkin
on't that air way, ezzactly. I wuz a thinkin that if govment paid one
kine o' debts 't orter pay t'other kine. I fetched my knapsack full o'
govment bills hum from the war. I callate them bills wuz all on em
debts what the govment owed tew me fur a fightin. Ef govment ain't a
goin tew pay me them bills, an 'tain't, 'it don' seem fair tew tax me
so's it kin pay debts it owes tew other folks. Leastways seems's
though them bills govment owes me orter be caounted agin the taxes
instead o' bein good fer nothin. It don't seem ez if 'twas right,
nohaow."
"Leastways," said Peleg, "if the Gineral Court hain't a goin ter print
more bills 't orter pass a lor, seein thar ain't no money in the
kentry, so 'z a feller's prop'ty could be tuk by a fair valiation fer
what he owes, instead o' lettin the sheriff sell it fer nothin and
sendin a feller tew jail fer the balince. 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.
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