excerpt from 'Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life' pp. 19 (88 words)
excerpt from 'Fifty Years of a Londoner's Life' pp. 19 (88 words)
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In that same great market-place I recall the prize-fighter, William Thompson or "Bendigo." He had been converted by a local evangelstic pork butcher, "Jemmy" Dupe, and he sat, a gaunt grey old man wearing a broad-cloth suit, but his colours of "bird's-eye" blue, beside a barrow, on which were displayed his championship belts and the Bibles that he sold. Ever and anon he would spring to his feet and sing: "Ho I The Devil had me once But he let me go! Yes he let me go! Bendigo!" |
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