In the early 1930's the Major came out from England
to Salt Spring Island. He had a grand time as an unattached
young “man about the town.” He later got
married and had children - lots of children - and
was no longer able to make ends meet. My father, W.M.
Mouat, noticed that he had not paid his January, February,
or March store account and it was almost the end of
April. So Dad thought he should have a “word”
with the Major about this situation. “Major,
I notice you haven’t paid your bill for some
months and I was wondering if there was a problem?”
“Well, yes, Willie, you know with all these
children needing clothes and boots and so on, what
I do is put the names of my creditors in a box and
pull out a name and pay each one until I have no money
left. And dash it Willie, if I have any more of your
cheek, I won’t even put the Mouat’s Trading
name in the box!” |
