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Instances Of Unparallelled Parsimony In The Late Daniel Dancer, Esq.
INSTANCES OF UNPARALLELLED PARSIMONY IN THE LATE DANIEL DANCER , ESQ .
A FEW days ago died at Pinner , in Middlesex , Daniel Dancer , Esq . a man who quitted this . earthly stage , not more remarkably for his worldly riches , than for his having lived in an apparent state of extreme poverty . Such was the eccentricity of his character , that , though scarcely allowing himself the common necessaries of life , he has left property to the amount of joool . a year to Lady Tempest and Captain Holmes . During his last sickness Lady Tempest
accidentally called upon him , and finding him lying up to the neck in an old sack , withotit even a shirt , remonstrated against the impropriety of such a situation ; when he replied , that having come into the world without a shirt , he was determined to go out of it in the same manner . She then requested him to have a pillow to raise his head , and he immediately ordered his old servantnamed Griffithsto bring
, , him a truss of hay for that purpose . Whenever he had occasion to obey the dictates of nature , he would rather walk two miles than not assist in manuring his own land ; nor did he ever afford his old horse any more than two shoes for his foi-e feet , deeming those for his hind feet an unnecessary
expence . So perfectly penurious was he in his disposition , that , rather than expend a penny , he frequently had recourse to the pot-liquor of Lady T . ' s kitchen , of which he would swill so enormousl y as to be obliged to roll himself on the floor to sleep . His house , of which Captain H . is now in possession , is a most miserable building , and has not been repaired for half a century ;
though poor in external appearance , it has , however , been recentl y discovered to be immensely rich within , Captain H . having- at different times found large bowls filled with guineas and half-guineas , and parcels of bank-notes stuffed under the covers of old chairs . Pie generally had his body girt with a hay-band to keep too-ether his tattered garments ; and the stockings he usually wore had been
so frequently darned and patched that scarcely any of the ori ginal could be-seen , but which in dirty or cold weather , were thickly covered with ropes of hay , that served us substitutes for boots . Hi ' s whole . garb , in short , resembled that of a miserable mendicant begging charity from door to door . The trite adage , " What ' s bred in the bone , & c . " was fully verified in this man , who seems to have been the principal branch , of a thrifty tree , every scion of which being of a similar texture , VOL . HI . " N n
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Instances Of Unparallelled Parsimony In The Late Daniel Dancer, Esq.
INSTANCES OF UNPARALLELLED PARSIMONY IN THE LATE DANIEL DANCER , ESQ .
A FEW days ago died at Pinner , in Middlesex , Daniel Dancer , Esq . a man who quitted this . earthly stage , not more remarkably for his worldly riches , than for his having lived in an apparent state of extreme poverty . Such was the eccentricity of his character , that , though scarcely allowing himself the common necessaries of life , he has left property to the amount of joool . a year to Lady Tempest and Captain Holmes . During his last sickness Lady Tempest
accidentally called upon him , and finding him lying up to the neck in an old sack , withotit even a shirt , remonstrated against the impropriety of such a situation ; when he replied , that having come into the world without a shirt , he was determined to go out of it in the same manner . She then requested him to have a pillow to raise his head , and he immediately ordered his old servantnamed Griffithsto bring
, , him a truss of hay for that purpose . Whenever he had occasion to obey the dictates of nature , he would rather walk two miles than not assist in manuring his own land ; nor did he ever afford his old horse any more than two shoes for his foi-e feet , deeming those for his hind feet an unnecessary
expence . So perfectly penurious was he in his disposition , that , rather than expend a penny , he frequently had recourse to the pot-liquor of Lady T . ' s kitchen , of which he would swill so enormousl y as to be obliged to roll himself on the floor to sleep . His house , of which Captain H . is now in possession , is a most miserable building , and has not been repaired for half a century ;
though poor in external appearance , it has , however , been recentl y discovered to be immensely rich within , Captain H . having- at different times found large bowls filled with guineas and half-guineas , and parcels of bank-notes stuffed under the covers of old chairs . Pie generally had his body girt with a hay-band to keep too-ether his tattered garments ; and the stockings he usually wore had been
so frequently darned and patched that scarcely any of the ori ginal could be-seen , but which in dirty or cold weather , were thickly covered with ropes of hay , that served us substitutes for boots . Hi ' s whole . garb , in short , resembled that of a miserable mendicant begging charity from door to door . The trite adage , " What ' s bred in the bone , & c . " was fully verified in this man , who seems to have been the principal branch , of a thrifty tree , every scion of which being of a similar texture , VOL . HI . " N n