| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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which are of no further use to you, we should be grateful for them, and if you will kindly fill in annexed form and post it to us, we will send and collect them. On the day of the sale the parish room was transformed into a kind of Marine Stores, filled with all manner of rubbish, with the parson and the visiting ladies grinning in the midst. The things were sold for next to nothing to such as cared to buy them, and the local rag-and-bone man reaped a fine harvest. The proceeds of these sales were distributed in `charity' and it was usually a case of much cry and little wool. There was a religious organization, called `The Mugsborough Skull and Crossbones Boys', which existed for the purpose of perpetuating the great religious festival of |
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