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Lake County Press, Issue 976, 22 August 1901, Page 7

A miser named Bailly, aged seventy years, has just died at Evreux, in France. He left a letter stating that he died in extreme poverty, but his relatives did not believe the statement, and set to work and searched his house. In the cellar, buried in old fiower pots, they found £1,000; in a soldier's pannikin, hidden in the old man’s bedroom, they discovered £500; but their great haul was made in the attic of the house, where they found, hidden under the roof and in crevices in the wall, money to the value of £12,000. The old man for years had lived on stale bread he bad begged and boiled horse llesh. “I think, Charlie,” said Mrs Smallface to her hopeful, “ that I shall put you into long trousers very' soon.” “ But not till after Christmas, rna.” “Why not:'” “Oh, because, you know, ma, I shall have to go into short stockings, and they don’t hold much.”