The queerest object in nature is a Spanish beggar—for these beggars beg on horseback, and it is an odd thing to see a man riding up to a poor foot passenger and asking alms. A gentleman in Valparaiso, being accosted by one of these mounted beggars, replied : “ Why, sir, you come to beg of me, who have to go on foot, while you ride on horseback ! ” “ Very true, sir,” said the beggar, “ and I have the more need to beg, I have to support my horse as well as myself. ”
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Globe, Volume III, Issue 254, 5 April 1875, Page 3
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90Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Globe, Volume III, Issue 254, 5 April 1875, Page 3
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