Tales of a Traveler (unsourced)/Part Second Introduction

by Washington Irving

Part Second: Buckthorne and His Friends

"'Tis a very good world that we live in,: To lend, or to spend, or to give in;
But to beg, or to borrow, or get a man's own,
'Tis the very worst world, sir, that ever was known."
--Lines from an inn window