Note 88 — No. XII.
Reading edition
[Mr. Pitt’s Tax upon Hair-powder proved a failure; many of the public declining its use. Those who continued it were called “guinea-pigs,” the tax being a guinea per head.—Ed.]
Reading edition
[Mr. Pitt’s Tax upon Hair-powder proved a failure; many of the public declining its use. Those who continued it were called “guinea-pigs,” the tax being a guinea per head.—Ed.]