Possible Clues:

• Joint legatee is grouchier, being upset to lose rug
• One does not succeed alone
• One who can't have everything?
• Not the only one to succeed in firm he and I run
• He gets the rope around, as one of the two that succeed
• Might he succeed jointly in the rope?
• One won't succeed on one's own
• He may be one of those that succeed in getting the mat around
• Heroic acrobatics of one who does not succeed alone
• Joint inheritor