Wanted Her Bit.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 10 April 1914, Page 2

Wanted Her Bit.

An aged couple recently sold for three thousand pounds the farm wnereon they had lived for many years. In due course the purchaser called with a solicitor to close up the sale. The solicitor had prepared a dee(\, which the farmer signed and passed to his wife, whose signature also was necessary. To the surprise of everyone, the woman declined to put her name to the instrument. "T have lived_ on this farm for over thirty years," she said, "and lam not. going to sign away my rights unless 1 get something out of it that; I can call my own." The husband and solicitor reasoned with her, but to no avail. She was immovable. The purchaser evinced signs of nervousness, si?ice

he felt that the woman's demands might be unreasonable. Initially, after further parley, he steeled himself to put the momentous quest ion : — "How much will you take to ri'gn the deed ?" "'Well, ] think i ought to have half a sovereign, anyway."

Skcond Oi-Tic;iiß.-_N.ot a hair can 1 move him. iJ| A- RTY V 1? "AS FAiJJiN,—Tl's no use, gentlemen; Y ou might linn^ ""-V^'r "*' JV C '**" al llle West Side cookin,.-school Jmnei. ana I ate four amateur doughnuts. —y'nS-r