The man was distraught, his wife laying on their bed and close to death.
"Look under the bed " she whispered to him, "take out what you find there".
Her husband reached under the bed and drew out a large locked trunk.
Handing him a key from under her pillow, his wife told him to open it.
On opening the trunk, the man found £7000 and three hens eggs.
On seeing his quizzical expression, his wife confessed to him that she had placed an egg inside the trunk every time she had been unfaithful to him.
Hurt at first, the husband then considered that three eggs in 30 years of marriage wasn't as bad as he had first thought, so he then asked about the £7000.
"Ah" said his wife, "every time I got a dozen eggs I sold them to the village shop for 50p"
