Show he wont pay detroit freo press pressa I got that notice tins this forenoon he e remarked as lio lie handed the printe printed d slip lip nito into one of the ward windows at the water office yester lay jay Y c s I see re replied lied the clerk as lio lie hand handed ed it b back I am notified resul resumed ned the citizen that the water is to be shut off from my honse house unless I pay rates at fit p once yes sir air Is ting this despotic russia or free america I guess so go rifled sighed the clerk as he looked over a lot t of figures then shut my water off fr will you I presume we will I dont t believe it weve been frozen up for ten days and if anybody can find any water to shut off they may try it on frozen eh eb frozen tight as a crowbar and whose fault is it you contract to give me so much water daily oi 01 or monthly for so much money meres my water today then its ies frozen frozen I say every water pipe in my house was frozen as solid soli as the rock of gibraltar and whose fault is it I see murmured the clerk what do you sc s c do you see me going around the neighborhood borrowing water er or do you see thoe e frozen pipes tho the landlord says he lie freeze em cm up V no o awa and I sa 21 Z I so but the weather did am I anymore tiny more responsible for the weather than you are why my dont you junyour run your water over a heater reater in the winter and tako take the chills off I think we will ad and now I wont pay until I get water no sir I iw I will illse see eyou you hune first I you cau can go up epand and dig and nd pick and turn your ord rods around but you cant scare me into paying AI I I know w it was wits the brisk a anwer you may advise me to ai light bt a candle and crawl under thell the house ouse and knock the top off of ray my head 1193 against estt dihe h e foists joists but I wont do it you may a advise vibe hot bricks but id liko like to see myself holding holdim hot bricks against the pipes to please lease anybody warm rags will win sometimes dothe do the business but I am going in to hunt funtall all over detroit for rags and n gd burn half a ton of ca coal al to warm era em no softly said the clerk and dont you forget that you arc are a servant of the public either I never I Andas and as Isaid I said before shut off and be hanged to you I 49 yes and I will move I yeu you willi f and ind you may sue me for the a amount mount and alid I will fight you to the bi highest best court in the universe I til this monopoly cant bluff me for a centi cent so was the calm reply and the citizen walked out ae as stiffly as if his legs had been drilled for it water pipe and there had been a freeze up |