"The last lineal descendant of Daniel Defoe," so runs an announcement just published, " has become a pauper." After struggling on at Bishop Stortford, blind and paralysed, tho old men has been • compelled, at tba age of seyenty, to ac- : cept out-door relief from Chelmsford Union. If this story is well founded, it t is scare" y possiblo that the world will • long permit the last of so famous a name to end his days in such discomfort.
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Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 869, 9 December 1893, Page 5
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77Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 Bush Advocate, Volume XI, Issue 869, 9 December 1893, Page 5
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