A Bargain is a Bargain.
Twenty years ago a Liverpool steam-packet company wanted to extend its premises, and resolved to buy a piece of land belonging to . a maiden lady of an uncertain age. The spinster sold her land at a very low price, but,' as a set-off, requested that a clause should be put in the agreement to the effect that during her whole life she and a companion should have a right at any time to travel in the company's vessels. The day after the agreement was signed, she sold her furniture, let her house, and went on board the first out-bound vessel belonging to the company, without troubling herself where it was going. Since then the -lady has always lived on one ship or another, accompanied by some lady traveller, fqr whom she advertises, and whose passage moneys she puts in her pocket. She-is calculated to have made over £2000 by the sale of her few yards of land, and the company have offered her more than that sum if she will give up her privilege, but they cannot get rid of her at any price.
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Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 38
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189A Bargain is a Bargain. Otago Witness, Issue 956, 16 May 1889, Page 38
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