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Show TOLD Cr A MEAN FRMER. Gift Mare Eating His Inherited Grass Aroused Him. A leading official in the Young Men's Christian association of X w York said the other day of the lata Morris K. Jesup: "Mr. .lesup's charity was even broader broad-er than his wealth. Naiuially. then, he hated parsimony. I never saw him indignant save when some instance of parsimony would crop up. "Once he told us here of a particularly partic-ularly mean tri.-k that hat! Ir-on played upon him by a inultlmilli.iiaire. He said that the man had inherit.'. 1 his meanness His unci.'. a Westiort farmer, had been lamed as a miser all over Connect v-ut. "The farmer's cousin died in the 60s. and the old man attended the reading of the will, for he had hoiifs. ! "And. sure enough, in one of the ! later codicils a certain SO-acre field I was left him. "As the be'inest was tc" r-v the farmer sat in his chair, rubied his hands and smiled delightedly about the room. "But the lawyer, readin- '.da known that the verv good gray mare then grazing in said field was bequeathed be-queathed to a nephew. "At this news i:- firmer c!a"''"d his lips in rage and piped excitedly: "'Then she's eatin' my grass'" New York Times. |