The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-10-07
SHE MADE HER WILL,
But Her Many Relatives Were
Hardly Pleased With It.

Miss Gallipot was certainly very rich
and was said to be enormously SO. And
her wealth had:comc TO her quite unex-
pectcdly.
cousin, old Josephat Gallipot (of the
firm of GalliPot s. Jams>. who was
known to be a millionaire, should have
left her something handsome. But no
one could have guessed he would make
her his heircss, least of all after she
had ouarrclcd with him.
After he had been a widovver twenty
years old Josephat Ga1lipot made up
his mind to marry his kitchen maid,
who was not more than forty years his
junior and was engaged to the milk
man.
Then Miss Gallipot wrote him a let
my DEAR Jos: don't supposc 1t will make
any difference whether write to you or not
But have q regard for you. and feel 1t on my
conscience to do what can to prevent your
bringing great misery on yourself.
''Tou have q perfect right to marry ago:n If
you choose. and you can certainly AFFORD to pick
a wife who has nothing but herself to recon-
mend her. But the girl you are choosing would
be dear the price II she brought you her own
weight in gold. and she's no feather by the look
Of her
beg you to draw back from giving her the Or
portunity. She has no affection for you, and If
you have any for her it will make i, the worse
SARAH GALLIPOT."
a week later the millsman's fiancee be-
came Mrs. Gallipot. No further COM
lnunication took place between the
cousins, and couple of years after
ward Josephat Gallipot went the way
Of all flesh.
No one was more simply astonishcd
than Miss Sarah Gallipot when she
learned that she had succeeded to his
entire fortune. He wrote:
ITO my wife bequeath my memory, know
f,oo 1easrv, n HOTh md
that she has saved we'll during the two years OF
welded life, for do not believe that our
household expenses have been scventy-hve
thousand dollars per annum
ITO my cousin, Sarah GalIipot, bequcath
recosnit,en Of her eandor and sincerity, ana
with unavaiiing regret that did not proht by
The will was dated q fortnight before
his death, and in process was duly
proved and administered.
Then Miss Gallipot discovered how
tenderly she was loved, and how count
less were her Einsmen and kinswomcn.
the habit of considering herself as
rather alone in the world. In her six
tieth year she found it was not SO.
Nieces dropped from the sky, neph-
ews rose from the earth. the clouds
distilled Rodchildrcn on to her head and
cousins fell around her like hailstones.
Nor did they come empty.
siomc brought game from the coun-
try, some sent choice fruits from their
hothouSes.
If she had lived to be seven hundred
and eighty she could not have worn
out the cozy bedroom slippers that
were worked for her, and if she had
had as many mouths as the Nile she
could never have drunk up all the wines
that were sent her.
Devonshire cream came out OF the
west; cakes of all sizes, shapes and de
scriptions came down from the north
and oysters from all quarters came rap
ping at her door.a
And the letters of affection that &C
companted them! These pass all de-
scription, and should have convinced
their recipient that of all the old ladies
that had ever lived she was herself the
dearest. most charming and most be.
loved Ey her frciepds,