"Paounds an shillins runs daown tew by gittin wored off
till they's light weight. Every kine o' money runs daown, on'y it's
the nater o' bills to run daown a leetle quicker nor other sorts. Naow
I says, an I ain't the ony one ez says it, that all guvment's got to
dew is tew keep a printin new bills ez fass ez the old ones gits run
daown. Times wuz good long in the war. A feller could git baout what
he assed fer his crops an he could git any wages he assed. Yer see
guvment wuz a printin money fass. Jess's quick ez a bill run daown
they up and printed another one, so they wuz allers plenty. Soon ez
the war wuz over they stopped a printin bills and immejetly the hard
times come. Hain't that so?"
"I dunno but yew be right," said Abner, thoughtfully, "I never thort
on't ezzackly that way," and Isaiah Goodrich also expressed the
opinion that there was "somethin into what Ezry says."
"What we wants," pursued Ezra, "what we wants, is a kine o' bills
printed as shall lose vally by reglar rule, jess so much a month, no
more no less, cordin ez its fixed by law an printed on tew the bills
so'z everybody'll understan an no-body'll git cheated. I hearn that's
the idee as the Hampshire folks went fer in the convenshun daown tew
Hatfield this week.
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