A Bargam is a Bargain.
Twenty years ago a Liverpool Btearp packet company wanted to . extend its premises, and resolved to. ■ - buy a piece of land belonging .to a fe- maiden lady of an uncertain age. TJie 'spiaster sold her land at" a very low priqe,.but' as a setoff, requested 'tilt a clause' should be put' in the agreement tpthi) effep't that .djjriug , 'her wtiolpllife glip aiifl ft; goxnpftnipn ehoujd have a right at aoay. time to travel in vessels. Thci
she sold lior furniture, lot .hor house,' and went ■ on board the fust outward-bound vessel bolotiging to tho oompany, without troubling | herself where it was going. Since i | then tho lady has always lived on one ship or auother, accompanied by | i somo lady traveller, for whom she | I advertises, and whose passage money l she puts'iu hor pocket. She is ctil-, I eulated to have made ovor L2OOO by I tho sale of hor few yards of land, and I the company have offered hor morei I than that Bum if alio will give up her privilege, but they cannot get rid of her at any price.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3139, 26 February 1889, Page 3
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189A Bargam is a Bargain. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3139, 26 February 1889, Page 3
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