When Sir Thomas Lipton received the freedom of the City of Glasgow he told quite a number of good stories. In his first shop in Stobeross Street, of Glasgow, he said he had a very nice boy, but he was very shabbily dressed. He (Sir Thomas) gave him a sovereign one day to buy a new suit of clothes. Unfortunately the boy never came back. Sir Thomas met his mother some time afterwards, and he asked her, "What has come over the boy?' "Mr. Lipton," she replied, "he lookin sao respectable that he has got a very much better job."
Sir Thomas then recalled a day when he was walking along the shore at Folkestone with a London gentleman. A kiltie came. up and said—I beg your. pardon; you
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