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Title The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
Page 1418
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Text Is there any more questions?' cried Philpot. `Now is your chance to get some of your own back, but don't hall speak at once.'

`I should like to know who's goin' to do all the dirty work?' said Slyme. `If everyone is to be allowed to choose 'is own trade, who'd be fool enough to choose to be a scavenger, a sweep, a dustman or a sewer man? nobody wouldn't want to do such jobs as them and everyone would be after the soft jobs.'

`Of course,' cried Crass, eagerly clutching at this last straw. `The thing sounds all right till you comes to look into it, but it wouldn't never work!'

`It would be very easy to deal with any difficulty of that sort,' replied Barrington, `if it were found that too many people were desirous of pursuing certain callings, it would be known that the conditions attached to those kinds of work were unfairly
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