An Irishman's Notion Of Discount
IT chanced, one gloomy day in the month of December, that a good-humored
Irishman applied to a merchant to discount a bill of exchange for him at
rather a long though not an unusual date; and the merchant having
casually remarked that the bill had a great many days to run, That's
true, replied the Irishman, but consider how short the days are at
this time of the year.