MONEY IN IT.
The wife of the great Labour Leader, Strike Organiser, and Emancipator of the British Workman sobbed aloud. “And you say there’s no chance of getting the Candied Orange-Peel Collectors to turn out on strike just before the plum-pudding season, Bill ?” “Not a dog’s chance, Betty !” he replied doggedly (naturally). “Well, we.can't live as we’ve been livin’, on the collections you make in Hyde Park.” “Betsy,” said the burly agitator, '“you can wipe yer nose an’ go back to yer boodwahr an’ read ‘Trilby.’ Little fish is sweet, and bo’s the ha’pence I gets in the Park, but as for livin’ on it, why, we ain’t got to. D’yer think I’ve been emancipating the labourer these ten years without making a pile ? Not much ! But I s’pose it’s the weather that’s trying yer. Here, go up to Cherrin Cross an’ see which is the best root to Monty Carter !”
“Have you lived in this town very long, Miss Sears ?” "‘Of course not ! Do I look old enough to have lived anywhere very lone 7”
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2208, 15 August 1910, Page 7
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176MONEY IN IT. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2208, 15 August 1910, Page 7
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