| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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that it must go back to where it came from; several of them accordingly seized the horses' heads and, amid cheers, turned them round. The man on the platform was still trying to make himself heard, but without success. The strangers who had come with the van and the little group of local Socialists, who had forced their way through the crowd and gathered together close to the platform in front of the would-be speaker, only increased the din by their shouts of appeal to the crowd to `give the man a fair chance'. This little bodyguard closed round the van as it began to move slowly downhill, but they were not sufficiently numerous to protect it from the crowd, which, not being satisfied with the rate at which the van was proceeding, began to shout to each other to `Run it away!' `Take the brake off!' and several savage rushes were made with the intention of putting these suggestions into execution. Some of the defenders were hampered with their bicycles, but they resisted as well as they |
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