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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1515
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Text empty, said to each other that it was a great honour for Mugsborough that their Member should be promoted in this way. They boasted about it and assumed as much swagger in their gait as their broken boots permitted.

They stuck election cards bearing Sir Graball's photograph in their windows and tied bits of blue and yellow ribbon - Sir Graball's colours - on their underfed children.

The Liberals were furious. They said that an election had been sprung on them - they had been taken a mean advantage of - they had no candidate ready.
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