THE GEINA
MISER'S HEIRS
20- 1997
HAVE JOB TO GEPTI92 HIS MONEY
Behind the restoration of scot tage in the village of Harefield (Bucks) is the story of an old
achelor- miser who has left fortune to his nephews, providing they e
eat of their
brows.*
"Every penny he earned he in-
Government stocks.
Bu
at the outbreak of war he hoar most of his fortune at home in cas he had to escape to another country
dreds of pounds.
"Once he carried $1,500 in gole from his brothers' house to this He was Job Collett, 89-year-old cottages he kept it in an old bag. bižider, who died in the village I can see him now sorting out hun- four years ago. His nephew, Issac Collett a bricklayer, was working on the roof of his cottage when he told me how he and his family were looking forward to the time when he would be a four figure man, writes a correspondent
"I have a wife and three child- ren, and although there are thou sands of pounds to come to me, I cannot touch a penny until I have proved myself a worker," he said. "My uncle Job left this cotta and a piece of ground to me.
"One day he sent me to the bank in Uxbridge to draw a big sum of money. As soon as I got home with it he told me to go back and bank it again. He only wanted t make sure that it was there.
"He would hide money under th carpets and leave notes about to test my honesty. We had some ter rible. quarrels. He never once tall- ed of marriage. I came down from Yorkshire to five in this cot Itage, as he was terrified of the name of Collett becoming extinct in Harefield.
Although he had hoarded up thousands of pounds, his only worry was his grave. To make sure that
"He always said that the people he would be given a splendid funeral, he supervised the buildingaho inherited his fortune would of an expensive marble vault in our little churchyard 16 years be fore he died. Once a year he took flowers to his own grav
COFFIN IN KITCHEN-
"For several years my wife and
have to earn it by the sweat of, their brows. In eight years time
shall be one of the nephews be tween whom it will be divided.
THRIFTY TO. THE LAST
I am doing my best to carry out
I lived here with him. I was one the old man's wish. I have near- of the few men who could get only completely restored the old cot. with old Job. For a long time he tage, even to building an ex wanted to have his coffin, beaut for it. Every bit of the fully lined with lead, standing the corner of the kitchen.
"He had no friends and started his career as a bird-scarer. Later he was a master builder. He walker about like a trang and used t wear my discarded clothes
"Candles were his only light, and he sat for hours, at night stickin the ends of old wicks together to burn again. The ashes in the fire were sifted over and over again and burnt until they were powder.
"He could neither read nor write, and never once went on holiday or to a place of amusement. He would get up at two in the morning to wall to a job rather than go by
been done in my spare time, and by myself
"Although Job had prepared for an elaborate funeral, it was his wish that his coffin should be car ried to the grave to save the
died of a hearse. When his brothe
al be he refused to go to his fu canse he would be wasting time. when money could be earned laying bricks
killed worker. "He was a very and so conscientious that when he had finished a job he left it to th client to pay him what he thought it was worth. His only hobby. fishing. He was the man I have ever met,
"Twice a year I have to
train. He was so thrifty that he seasonal flowers are planted on. boiled orange and apple peel and grave. I have no
drank the juice. He called it his tame
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