Sighing for twenty thousand pounds,
But take my word, ye girls of sense,
You'll find them not worth twenty-pence.

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GREAT AND SMALL.

A shopkeeper at Poncaster had, for his virtues, obtained the name of the
_little rascal_. A stranger asked him why this application was
given him? "To distinguish me from the rest of my trade," quoth he,
"who are all _great rascals_."

C.F.E.

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THE LAW, PROFESSORS OF, IN ENGLAND:--

Counsel 936
Special Pleaders below the Bar 49
Conveyancers 90
London Attorneys 2,146
Country Attorneys 5,200
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Total 8,421

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