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Sir,—Your bill for goods supplied last year, has now been delivered upwards of three months, and I have waited on you several times to solicit payment, but have not been so fortunate as to find you at home; I have a very large sum to make up in the course of a week, and shall esteem it a very particular favour, if you can let me have the amount of my bill delivered within that time; I trust you will excuse the liberty I take in writing to you on this subject, and believe me, Sir, your most obedient humble servant.

Sir,—I am sorry you have had the trouble of calling so often for your money, and still more that it is not in my power to pay your bill within the time you mention; I am, at present, very short of cash, and shall be so for these six weeks; at the end of that time I will settle with you. Iam, Sir, your humble servant.

Sir,—I should be sorry to appear troublesome to any customer, but you who are not in any business, may not probably know how subject tradesmen are to large demands for cash, and how much an omission of payment may injure them in the world; the credit on your bill already exceeds, by some months, what is usual in trade to give, and what I give my customers in general; I hope therefore, you will not take it amiss, that I have drawn on you at six weeks for the amount of my demand, I have sent the bill by my clerk for your acceptance, not doubting that it will be ulyduly [sic] honoured, and that