Skinflint’s Last Stand: A Short Story

He was so cheap he wouldn’t give two nickels for a dime!

Skinflint was so miserly that he would boil a neck bone to make stew and then boil it again so as not to waste the aroma. His miserly ways and unscrupulous business practices made him a very lonely man indeed; that is, until he learned a valuable lesson from the most unlikely of characters, a red squirrel.