He began to raise chickens, and he made a detailed monthly report to me, whereby it appeared that he was able to work off his chickens on the Keokuk people at a dollar and a quarter a pair.

But it also appeared that it cost a dollar and sixty cents to raise the pair.

This did not seem to discourage Orion, and so I let it go.

Meantime he was borrowing a hundred dollars per month of me regularly, month by month.

Now to show Orion's stern and rigid business ways--and he really prided himself on his large business capacities--the moment he received the advance of a hundred dollars at the beginning of each month, he always sent me his note for the amount, and with it he sent, _out of that money, three months' interest_ on the hundred dollars at six per cent.