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The Ingoldsby Legends

Note 58 — THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY.

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All who are familiar with the Police Reports, and other Records of our Courts of Justice, will recollect that every gentleman of this particular profession invariably thus describes himself, in contradistinction to the Bricklayer, whom he probably presumes to be indigenous, and to the Shoemaker, born a Snob.

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