“‘Oh, but,’ said Daniel, ‘that’s a dangerous plan,
He may be robbed like any other man.’”
The friend tells Daniel that he will be paid five per cent. every year.
“‘What good is that?’ quoth Daniel, ‘for ’tis plain
If part I take, there can but part remain.’”
With great difficulty the principle of a mortgage is explained, and at last,
“Much amazed was that good man. ‘Indeed,’
Said he, with gladdening eye, will money breed?
How have I lived? I grieve with all my heart
For my late knowledge of this precious art;