London's streets are not paved with gold, but a country yokol doing the sights in the time of Edward I. might well have started a legend that they were. He would see men staggerim o'it of the King's Mint, near' St. Paiil's Cathedral, bearing ladles of molten stuff and pouring it in the road. At the Min' —kept in memory by 'the' 'rlame ' 'Old Change —old bad money was received and melted. The dross, was "carried -tofoul highways to heighten them."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 194, 17 August 1932, Page 15
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