For whom did a difference of twelve pence make all the difference?
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#15611. Asked by Sam. (Jan 03 02 11:40 PM)
Tabby Tom
Mr Micawber
(Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen opounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery)
Jan 03 02, 11:45 PM
Son of The Household Cavalry
A Dublin lawyer died in poverty and many barristers of the city sub- scribed to a fund for his funeral. The Lord Chief Justice of Orbury was asked to donate a shilling. 'Only a shilling?' said the Justice, 'Only a shilling to bury an attorney? Here's a {guinea;} go and bury 20 more of them.'
Jan 03 02, 11:51 PM
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