The Devil and Tom Walker

Tom accumulates his money by lending to others, accumulating bonds and mortgages that he would later foreclose on. He bought himself fancy clothes, built himself a big home that was never furnished, and purchased a beautiful carriage and horses.... unfortunately, he didn't see fit to feed them.

In this way he made money hand over hand, became a rich and mighty man, and exalted his cocked hat upon "Change." He built himself, as usual, a vast house, out of ostentation, but left the greater part of it unfinished and unfurnished, out of parsimony. He even set up a carriage in the fulness of his vain-glory, though he nearly starved the horses which drew it; and, as the ungreased wheels groaned and screeched on the axle-trees, you would have thought you heard the souls of the poor debtors he was squeezing.