| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 777 |
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who are in business, or who have some other source of income than their own wages. There are some exceptionally fortunate workers who happen to have good situations and higher wages than the ordinary run of workmen. Then there are some who are so placed - by letting lodgings, for instance - that they are able to live rent free. Others whose wives go out to work; and others again who have exceptional jobs and work a lot of overtime - but these are all exceptional cases.' `I say as no married workin' man can save any money at all!' shouted Harlow, 'not unless 'e goes without some of even the few things we are able to get - and makes 'is wife and kids go without as well.' `'Ear, 'ear,' said everybody except Crass and Slyme, who were both thrifty working men, and each of them had some money saved in one or other of the institutions mentioned. |
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