June 30.
Harliest memories of the begging fraternity recall a gontleman, in the Southampton avenue, with a tale of walking through to Portsmouth from Devonport; and could we spare him a trifle? An unsympathetic senior said that he was surely walking very slowly, since he had told exactly the same tale in almost exact. ly the same place and certainly to the same person just a year before. To which the tramp replied quite unabashed: "It's
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