VI 
THE INDEPENDENT TOPER 
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a man of humour, and used to beg for sixpence for his 
wife. He was not quite himself one day, and I told 
him he was tipsy again, and I wouldn’t give him one. 
“ Never mind, Missus,” he said, “ if I are tipsy, ’taint at 
your expense.” 
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