A RARE BROAD FARTHING!

_To the Editor._

Sir,--In your last very pleasing number, p. 242, you give an account of

a “Farthing Lord.” As addenda to that article I state, that in the west

of England I knew a penurious old gentleman, who, by way of generous

reward, used to give the person who performed little services for him a

_farthing_!, with this grateful apostrophe, “Here, my friend; here is a

rare _broad farthing_ for thee!--go thy way--call to-morrow; and, if

thou earn it, thou shalt have another _rare broad farthing_!” By the

exercise of this liberality, he gained the appellation of “Broad

Farthing!” and retained it to the day of his death, when he left immense

wealth.