“What do you propose to take for your cold, Harriet ?” said an affectionate husband on the honeymoon trip. “Well, Charles, dear, you shall have it very cheap—say a diamond ring for my wee-wee little finger,” which pointed at him most coquettishly. Boswell observed to Johnson that there was no instance of a beggar dying for want in the streets of Scotland. “ I believe, air, you are very right,” says Johnson : “ but this does not arise from the want of beggars, but from the impossibility of starving a Scotchman. ”
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 208, 8 February 1875, Page 3
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88Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Globe, Volume III, Issue 208, 8 February 1875, Page 3
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