How sad can it get for some?

A man called on the vicars wife a woman well known for her charitable deeds

" Madam " he said close to tears " I feel I must draw your attention to the awful plight of an impoverished family in the district The father is dead the mother is to ill to work and her nine children are starving They are about to be turned out of their house into the cold empty streets unless someone pays their rent which amounts to six hundred pounds "

" How terrible " exclaimed the vicars wife " May I ask who are you ? "

The sympathetic visitor dabbed his handkerchieff to his eyes " I'm the land lord "