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The History of John Bull

CHAPTER XV
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I wish every man had his own; but I still say, that Lord Strutt's money shines as bright and chinks as well as Esquire South's.

I don't know any other hold that we tradesmen have of these great folks but their interest: buy dear and sell cheap, and I warrant ye you will keep your customer.

The worst is, that Lord Strutt's servants have got such a haunt about that old rogue's shop, that it will cost us many a firkin of strong beer to bring them back again; and the longer they are in a bad road, the harder it will be to get them out of it.
D.DIEGO .-- But poor Frog, what has he done! On my conscience, if there be an honest, sincere man in the world, it is that Frog.
MRS.

BULL .-- I think I need not tell you how much Frog has been obliged to our family from his childhood; he carries his head high now, but he had never been the man he is without our help.* Ever since the commencement of this lawsuit, it has been the business of Hocus, in sharing out expenses, to plead for Frog.

"Poor Frog," says he, "is in hard circumstances, he has a numerous family, and lives from hand to mouth; his children don't eat a bit of good victuals from one year's end to the other, but live upon salt herring, sour curd, and borecole.


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