Show anecdotes of avarico avarice M my lord Ilard liard the tha late lord chancellor who is is bald sald to be worth sels eels the sam same value on half a crown now as he did when lie he was worth only kloo 1100 that great captain capt alu aiu the duke of or marlborough Marlboroug li when lie was iu in the thelast last stage of I 1 lide life f and aud ud very infirm iii firm would walk from tile the public ro room iu bith baths to his lodgings on a cold dark night to save bave a sixpence in ili chair hire if the duke who left at ut his death more than a ty million lillion and ard a half sterling could have foreseen that all his wealth and had honors were to be inherited by a grandson ol 01 lord Trevor 8 who had been one of his enemies wo eld lid he have always saved a sixpence sir james lowther Low ther lher after changing a piece ol 01 stiver allver in st georges coffeehouse coffiee coffee house and und nd paying for lles ills dish of coatee was helped into his chariot for ho was I 1 lime ime and infirm and went home some borne thuie kiino after lie he returned to the same earne coffeehouse coffee house on pu purpose r 0 o t tay toy acquaint the tha woman who kept it that thai she ba vei vel him a bad halfpenny half penny and de lyn lin annizer imer iwer in exchange for it sir james had about per annum and was at a loss aboin to his heir thornas thomas colby who lived in kensington and wasl wast think iia lia tats llio skilled ekil led himself I 1 y ris ric rising ing jn in the middle of the night when he lie was iu a profuse sweat tie tle aha tha e efface act of medicine which I 1 a had bad taken for that purpose and walking down i bairs it y look jock for the key of his hes cellar he had inadvertently left on a table in his big parlor lie was apprehensive that thai liis his servants sei might seize seiz the key and rob bim him of a bottle of port wine this man died intestate and left more inore than in the funds which were shared adiong five or six day laborers who were his nearest relations I 1 sir william sin tile the of Bedford shire was my own kinsman when lie was near seventy lie j was wholly deprived offis of his sight lie was persuaded to be couched by talor tailor the oculist who by agreement agreements was to have sixty guineas if ciflie lie restored ilis his patient to any amy degree of sight taylor succeeded in iii his operation and ami sir Willit william lin irn was wag was able to read and write without the use of spectacles I 1 during the rest of his life but as soon as the operation was performed and sir william williar saw I 1 the goo effect of it instead of being overjoyed i as any other peisou person would have beer been he began begau i to lament the loss less as lie called it of his sixty guineas his contrivance contrivances therefore was how to cheat the oculist ho lie pretended pretend edhe lie lle could not 8 see ee an any 1 thing perfectly for that ban bandie dge on his lii ili 1 I eye was continued a menth month longer than tile the usual 1 time by this means lie he obliged ta taylor tailor lor I 1 to 0 compound the hie bargain and accept of twenty guineas for lor a covetous mail man thinks no method dishonest which he may I 1 gilly practice to five his money dr kings anecdotes of his own times |