| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 122 |
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`Twelve shillings. Why, didn't you tell me only the other day that you'd paid up all we owed for groceries?' `Don't you remember we owed thirty-five shillings last spring? Well,I've been paying that bit by bit all the summer. I paid the last of it the week you finished your last job. Then you were out three weeks - up till last Friday - and as we had nothing in hand I had to get what we wanted without paying for it.' `But do you mean to say it cost us three shillings a week for tea and sugar and butter?' `It's not only them. There's been bacon and eggs and cheese and other things.' The man was beginning to become impatient. `Well,' he said, `What else?' `We owe the baker eight shillings. We did owe nearly a pound, but I've been |
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