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Updated: June 7, 2025
'There is really no sense in a respectable old lady, who keeps a dog in a hand-bag, having to pay as much as a man who takes pleasure in annoying his fellow-creatures by owning a half-wild animal as big as a little lion. 'May I ask how you would have the dog-tax reckoned, Dr. Hansen? 'According to weight, of course, replied Dr. Viggo Hansen without hesitation.
O'Mooney exclaimed, "I hate cats almost as much as old women; and if I had been the English minister, I would have laid the dog-tax upon cats." "If you had been the Irish minister, you mean," said the stranger, smiling; "for I perceive now you are a countryman of my own." "How can you think so, sir?" said O'Mooney: "you have no reason to suppose so from my accent, I believe."
It was something new for German poetry to find inspiration in the wrath of a beggar who cannot pay his dog-tax, the sardonic piety of an old widow reduced to penury by the exactions of the "gracious prince," or the laborious resignation of an aged washerwoman.
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