8. Put your feet on the table, or lean against the desk. It will be of great assistance to those who are writing.
9. Persons having no business to transact will call often or excuse themselves.
10. Should anyone desire to borrow money do not fail to ask for it, as we do not require it for business purposes, but merely for the sake of lending.
We copied the following from a placard either in the Windmill at Hollingbourne, or the Ten Bells at Leeds, in Kent:
| Call Frequently, Drink Moderately, Pay Honourably, | Be Good Company, Part Friendly, Go Home Quietly. |
Let these lines be no man’s sorrow, pay to-day and trust to-morrow.
In the General Wolfe at Westerham:
THE LANDLORD’S PUZZLE
| More | Shall | Trust | ||
| Score | I | Sent | ||
| for | what | I | ||
| my | And | Have | ||
| Do | Beer | If | ||
| Pay | Clerk | Brewers | ||
| I | May | So | ||
| Must | Their | My |