HAD HIS MONEYS WORTH.
On one occasion, when a boarder had devoured aihiost everything eatable on the table within his reach, and when the landlady had supplied him until her strength ahd patience were well nigh e__i_n_t_d, she suddenly broke cast with. : - " I shall certainly have to raise the price of your board!" / ' •'.''Don't think of doih| such _ thing," be replied, "if is nearly killing me now to eat all I pay *or, and, should you faise^ my" hoard and compel me to eat- more, itl will be |he death of me." . tj
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 3
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93HAD HIS MONEY'S WORTH. Star (Christchurch), Issue 7680, 15 April 1903, Page 3
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