MALI’S BEQUEST TO HIS WIFE
There Wif been proved the will of a man -who died in a south-west suburb of London and left to his wife: “One pair of my trousers, free of
duty, and carriage paid, as a symb what slio wanted to wear in my life! but did not.” Hie remainder of his perty was left between his two si and his sou. Ironical wills of this character usually directed at the opposite Those by women are often more s than those of men. One woman diri that her relatives should have “Not save a bag of sand to rub thems with—none deserve even a good-t After complaining that his wife had cd him “an old pig,” amongst < terms, a man left to her “the sui one farthing, to be sent to her by in an unstamped envelope.” Tiin volved the widow, at the then p rates, in a charge of twopence, foi cess postage and a special pegistri fee of cightpcnce, because the letter tained coin and was not sent by regi ed post.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 10
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178MALI’S BEQUEST TO HIS WIFE Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 10
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