| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 961 |
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This scheme amounted to very little. It did not increase the number of cast-off boots, and most of the people who `cast off' their boots generally gave them to someone or other. The only difference It can have made was that possibly a few persons who usually threw their boots away or sold them to second-hand dealers may have been induced to send them to Mr Bosher instead. But all the same nearly everybody said it was a splendid idea: its originator was applauded as a public benefactor, and the pettifogging busybodies who amused themselves with what they were pleased to term `charitable work' went into imbecile ecstasies over him. |
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