“Stout people, they say, are rarely guilty of meanness or crime.” “I suppose the reason B is it’s difficult for them to stoop to anything low.” An Indian woman entered a fruit shop to make a small purchase, and unthinkingly tendered a native coin—an anna—for payment, whereupon the shop assistant remarked: “I’m sorry; we must ban annas to-day.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 12 January 1931, Page 7
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