Old Harry Hodson made the money, yet he could not have done it had he not married the exact woman.

Women have made the fortunes of Emperors by their advice and assistance, and the greatest men the world has seen have owned that their success was owing to feminine counsel.

In like manner a woman made the policy of an obscure farmer a success.

When the old gentleman began to get well to do, and when he found his teeth not so strong as of yore, and his palate less able to face the coarse, fat, yellowy bacon that then formed the staple of the household fare, he actually ventured so far as to have one joint of butcher's meat, generally a leg of mutton, once a week.

It was cooked for Sunday, and, so far as that kind of meat was concerned, lasted till the next Sunday.