"You can't take it with you, Uncle Basil," they said. "I need a new fur but he said, 'Why? It's summer.' Well! He's mangy, that's what he is." "He can't take it with him" was a phrase the family used so often it began to slip out in front of Uncle Basil as well. They might get back to him." "He can't take it with him," said Percival's sister Letitia, combing her golden hair. "But you shouldn't use rude words, Percival. "He doesn't have to be so stingy, that's true, with all he has," said Percival's mother. The rest had used up all the other words in the dictionary.
Percival, having again smashed his Aston Martin for which he had not paid, had declared Uncle Basil a skinflint, a miser, Tightwad, churl, and usurer with colorful adjectives added. Gentle Aunt Clotilda, who wanted a new string of pearls because the one she had was getting old, had merely called him Scrooge Basil. They had used up all the words as their temper and their need of ready money dictated. 1 You Can't Take it with You by Eva-lis Wuorio There was no denying two facts.
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