" Jack ashore " gave an impromptu tin-whistle overture in Queen-street the other day, and one of the musicians was going round with the hat, when he wa-» promptly extinguished by a disgusted shipmate, who roared out — "Oh! d — it, Jack, belay tbatj it looks too much like a church collection. We haven't got 30 low as that yet."
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 14
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57" Jack ashore " gave an impromptu tin-whistle overture in Queen-street the other day, and one of the musicians was going round with the hat, when he wa-» promptly extinguished by a disgusted shipmate, who roared out—"Oh! d— it, Jack, belay tbatj it looks too much like a church collection. We haven't got 30 low as that yet." Observer, Volume 6, Issue 151, 4 August 1883, Page 14
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