Thumb-nail Legacies

Legacies so small that they could be written on one’s thumb-nail.

“ʹTis said, some men may make their wills

On their thumb-nails, for aught they can bestow.”

Peter Pindar: Lord B. and his Motions.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.