| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1585 |
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to the front entrance of the Town Hall, where Sweater's carriage was waiting, and as soon as he had placed his plump rotundity inside, they took the horses out and amid frantic cheers harnessed themselves to it instead and dragged it through the mud and the pouring rain all the way to `The Cave' - most of them were accustomed to acting as beasts of burden - where he again addressed a few words to them from the porch. Afterwards as they walked home saturated with rain and covered from head to foot with mud, they said it was a great victory for the cause of progress! Truly the wolves have an easy prey. |
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