Addressing the big gathering, he said boldly, “Gentlemen, I have been born an Englishman, I have lived an Englishman, and I hope I may die an Englishman.” A Scotsman in the audience retorted: “Mon, hae ye no ambition?”
Cash wasn’t always something you could spend. The word originally meant a merchant’s money chest; it comes from the Italian cassa, a money chest. Gradually cas»i came to include what v/as in the chest, too.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 January 1939, Page 8
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