Providing for Bills — 373
Two city merchants conversing upon business at the door of the New York Coffee-house, one of them made some remarks on the badness of the times; and perceiving at the moment a flight of pigeons passing over their heads, he exclaimed, “How happy are those pigeons! they have no acceptances to provide for.” To which the other replied, “You are rather in error, my friend, for they have their bills to provide for as well as we!”