slopton-on-the-tees

Updated: May 20, 2025

"The member for Slopton-on-the-Tees," he said, as his son placed a portrait on the easel; "that was a presentation picture, but the subscriptions were never paid up, and the committee left the portrait upon my hands. I don't remember the name of the member, because my memory isn't quite so good as it used to be; but the borough was Slopton-on-the-Tees Slopton yes, yes, I remember that."

M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon - Henry Dunbar : A Novel