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.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 2
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113THE NET PROFIT. Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 109, 9 May 1908, Page 2
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