Crossword-Solution: DEBITS 6 letters, 33 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Then having balanced his debits and credits, and set the writs running against defaulters, as behoves a good Christian at Christmas-tide, he saddled his horse, and rode off towards Oare, with a good stout coat upon him, and leaving Ruth and his head man plenty to do, and little to eat, until they should see him again.

But some indulgence is due to a man, with entries few on the credit side, and a terrible column of debits.

Advances by the fish-curer to fishermen, in the form of boats and fishing materials, form a very material portion of the debits in the men's accounts.

Why? Don't you see, my boy, that these things are debits? When you give out Bibles or distribute fuel to the poor you give out something for which you get no return.

And there! perhaps it was just as much my fault; I couldn't say "No" to him,--dash me, if I could!' Lymport was a prosperous town, and in prosperity the much-despised British tradesman is not a harsh, he is really a well-disposed, easy soul, and requires but management, manner, occasional instalments--just to freshen the account--and a surety that he who debits is on the spot, to be a right royal king of credit.