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Patience and pity in tales from a London paper
A collection of old anecdotes centered on patience kindness and wit. It recalls a Glasgow botanist who learned patience from a sixpence, a brave English general who honored a soldier’s blanket, and a London man who outwitted a spiteful wife with a sea burial injunction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allman
Glasgow
Thomas Elliot
Mr. Elliot
Ralph Abercrombie
Aboukir
Duncan Roy
Ralph
Fitz-Greene Halleck
Xantippe
Lymington