| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 959 |
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As a result of the appearance of this bill, and of the laudatory notices in the columns of the Ananias, the Obscurer, and the Chloroform - the papers did not mind giving the business a free advertisement, because it was a charitable concern - many persons withdrew their custom from those who usually supplied them with firewood, and gave their orders to the Yard; and they had the satisfaction of getting their fuel cheaper than before and of performing a charitable action at the same time. As a remedy for unemployment this scheme was on a par with the method of the tailor in the fable who thought to lengthen his cloth by cutting a piece off one end and sewing it on to the other; but there was one thing about it that recommended it to the Vicar - it was self-supporting. He found that there would be no need to use all the money he had extracted from the semi-imbecile old ladies for |
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