NO DOUBT ABOUT HIS MEANNESS.
To the large number of stories of the ■meanest man' which are frequently related, one should be added of a certain Frenchman, famous for his habit of grumbling at everything and on every occasion. He was attacked by inflammatory rheumatism, and was caretuHy nursed by his wife, who was very devoted to him, in spite of his fault-finding disposition! His suffering caused her to burst into tears sometimes as she sat by his bedside. One day a friend of this invalid came in and asked how he was getting- on. 'Badly, badly.' he exclaimed, 'and it's all my wife's fault.' ■Is it possible?' asked the friend, in surprise. 'Yes. The doctor told me that humidity was bad for me, and there that woman sits and cries, just to make it moist in the room.'—'Pearson's Weekly.'
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIX, Issue 304, 24 December 1898, Page 3 (Supplement)
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