Cold Comfort for Creditors
Anon
Genre: | News-Commentary, Drollery |
Subjects: | Heat, Matter Theory, Commerce |
Responding to an advertisement from a bankrupt selling 'Rough Ice' to 'Tea-Dealers and others', suggests that he was 'performing a series of scientific operations to ascertain how, by adopting the properties of ice [...] he could restore himself into a solvent state'. | |
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