A MISER'S MEANNESS. A miserly farmer's cousin died, and in due course the old fellow attended the reading of the will, for he had hopes. And, sure enough, in one of the later codicils a certain eight-acre field was lelt him. As the bequest was announced by the lawyer the farmer sat up in his chair rubbed his hands and smiled delightedly.
But the solicitor, reading on, made known that a very good grey mare then grazing in the said field was bequeathed to a nephew. At this news the farmer piped out excitedly : "Then she's eatiu* my grass !"
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2210, 29 August 1910, Page 2
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