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Updated: May 11, 2025
"Just run into the Hit or Miss at the corner, mate, and borrow a hammer; and you might get a pint o' hot beer when ye're at it. Here's fourpence. I was with three that found a quid in the Mac,* end of last week; here's the last of it." * A quid in the Mac a sovereign in the street-scrapings. called Mac from Macadam, and employed as mortar in building eligible freehold tenements.
The manures used are principally crude, obtained from the city, and landed on the premises from shallops continually plying, laden with the "sinews of farming." Street-scrapings are more used than stable-manure; bone-dust and guano enter largely into the account; and the aggregate annual expenditure foots up a sum almost equivalent to the fee-simple of an ordinary farm.
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