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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 534, 18 January 1913, Page 7

The modern millionaire loves nothing so lovable as a coin.■ .■ He is content sometimes with the dead crackle of notes ; but far more often with the mere repetition of noughts in a ledger, 'all as like each other as eggs to eggs. And as for comfort* tha L id miser" could* be-comfortable, as rsany tramps and savages-are', when hj: tfas once used to being unclean. A man could find some comfort in.ai unswept attic or an•.■• unwashed shirt. But the Yankee, millienaire. ciu fnd no comfort with fiye-telephonas at his bed-head and the financial world changing every five minutes. Ihe round coins in the miser's stocking were safe in some" sense.. r I ho round noughts in the millionaire's ledger are safe v in no sense : the ramc fluctuation which excites him with their increase depresses him with their diminution. As the miser gathers goM tie cannot eat, the millionaire counts figures he cannot buy or sell. The miser at last collects coins ; his hobby is numismatics : the man who collects noughts collects nothing'.— G. K. Chesterton, in the "Daily News."

'Arf a hinch, 'arf a lunch, 'Arf a Mneh ihoavrard, 'Ampered by 'obblev skirts, 'Qpped the v'4op,"