"No one ever yet lost anything by me, and I don't mean anyone shall, if I can help it.

Only give me a little time, and I will pay all." The landlord shook his head.
"You ought to have cut your coat according to your cloth," he responded.
"Much as it will go against my feelings I am compelled, by a prudent regard to my own interests, to warn you that, in case your rent is not ready to-morrow, I shall be obliged to trouble you to find another tenement; and furthermore, the rent of this will be raised five dollars a quarter." "I can't pay it, Mr.Colman," said Timothy Harding, gravely.

"I may as well say that now; and it's no use agreeing to pay more rent.

I pay all I can afford now." "Very well, you know the alternative.

Of course, if you can do better elsewhere, you will.