SPURNED THE GOLD.
The world will be glad of the assurance that there are some men in the humblest walks of life who can't be bought with the clink of gold. A Hoosier who lost his wife a few weeks ago was waited upon a few days after the funeral by a man who introduced himself as the agent of a Cincinnati medical college, and he went right to business by remarking : " Mr Blank, neither of us have any time to fool away. Tour wife is dead and buried. I want her body for the college. I could snatch it any dlark night, but that's not my way. How much cash will buy the cadaver ?" " Dig her up at your own expense ?" " Yes." " How much'll you give ?" "Fifteen dollars." " And the coffin ?" " Oh, that's no use to me." " Stranger," said the widower, " you skip or I'll shoot. If you think I'm fool enough to throw away a forty dollar coffin in these hard times you haven't sized me up k'rect. Let the dead woman stay thar. She isn't costin' anything for board and lodg- 1 ings, and there aint a penny out for repairs." *
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 6
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194SPURNED THE GOLD. Tuapeka Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1217, 27 January 1886, Page 6
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