THE NET PROFIT.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 2

THE NET PROFIT.

A New England man tells of a prosperous Connecticut farmer, painfully exact in money matters, who married a widow of Greenwich possessing in her own right the sum of ten thousand dollars.

Shortly after the wedding a friend met the farmer, to whom he offered congratulations, at the same time observing : " It's a good thing for you, Malachi —a marriage that means ten thousand dollars to you." "Not quite that. Bill," said the farmer, " not quite that." "Why," exclaimed the friend, "I understood there was every cent of ten thousand dollars in it for you !"

"I had to pay two dollars for a marriage license," said Malachi, with a sigh.