| Title | The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists |
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| Page | 1107 |
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| Chapter | The Good Old Summer-time |
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well as big children. He had been brought up on it ever since he could remember, and it was almost as cheap as bread and butter and tea. The result of the exhibition was that Mrs Linden promised to make porridge for Charley and Elsie whenever she could spare the time, and Mrs Easton said she would try it for the baby also. All through the summer the crowd of ragged-trousered philanthropists continued to toil and sweat at their noble and unselfish task of making money for Mr Rushton. Painting the outsides of houses and shops, washing off and distempering ceilings, stripping old paper off walls, painting and papering rooms and staircases, building new rooms or other additions to old houses or business premises, digging up old drains, repairing leaky roofs and broken windows. Their zeal |
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