The Nankipooh Enquirer "Covers the South like Sorghum Syrup"
P. O. Box 1849
Nankipooh, Georgia
DATELINE February 20, 2014
"Can I get some Credit?"
By: Scoop Biggers
I was listening to one of Bascomb's stories the other day about the time when Old Billy Brown came into the Biggers Grocery down there in Nankipooph and asked for some credit to pay for his groceries. Billy ran a small farm about three miles up the road near Fortson, and he and Bascomb had known each other for nearly forty years. Billy had never been too good at farming, nor anything else for that matter. He usually raised just enough cotton to stay only a year or two behind in his bills, which almost always got paid before they were three years old.
So Bascomb says, "Say Billy don't you already owe me for about six months worth of groceries?" "Well that's true, says Billy, but I'm going to bring you half of that money next week." So Bascomb says, "Well lets see, if you pay me next week for three months worth of groceries, you will still owe me for three months plus this week, and I guess next week's too. So, when do you think you might be able to pay me for those three and a half months worth of groceries?" "Probably in a month or two", says Billy.
So Bascomb bagged up the groceries, and when Billy left, he wrote down the amount in his ledger under Billy's name. After Billy had gone, Bascomb turned to Nate Dawson sitting over by the checker board, and said, "Old Billy hasn't been paid up on his bill since he had that bumper crop about twenty five years ago. At this rate my grand children will be collecting money from his grand children. That is, unless he has another bumper crop pretty soon. Its a good thing that man ain't running the country, or we would all be in a heap of trouble!"
I guess Old Bascomb hasn't read the paper much lately, or he would know that the people running the country just raised the debt ceiling for the country up to more than seventeen trillion dollars. Now that's going to take some bumper crop, just to get us back to even!
"Just my opinion"
Scoop Biggers
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