" Bulls " Among Beggars.
' Irish bep-gars are a great source of entosv tainment throughout the Emerald Islo, One of them called at a house, and said to the woman : — "For the love of hivin, ma'am, give me a crust o' bread, for I'm so thirsty I don't know , where I'll sleep to-night ! " You shouldn't beg," said a gentleman, who had bepu asked to bestow a copper or* J"a lone, lorn cralur; there's plenty of work in tho hayfiolds." "Ah, Bur, we can't all work, for thin there' d be nothin' for- the rest to- do ! " was tha woman's nanly. ,-< , ; ' " Get away lo the poor-hou3e," said a lady, irritated by tho appeals o't a beggar woman who had called at" her door. - - "Ret away t_o tho >poor-house, is it?" said the old crona, with scorn in her voice. " Faix, thin, I needn't stir, for it's at a poor-house 1 am i' :
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Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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149" Bulls " Among Beggars. Otago Witness, Issue 2387, 30 November 1899, Page 67
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