Who was it who coined the groat aphorism "that "a mug ix born every minute?" Tt must be so, oF how can it be that after the hundreds of cases reported, and articles written about confidence men, gold brick men andthe likey the Commissioner of Police, Lord Trenchard, finds it necessary, at the pening of the tourist season these tricksters?
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