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A Considerate Mayor
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A COUNTRY mayor being newly got into office, that he might be seen to do
something in it, would persuade his brethren to have a new pair of
gallows built; but one of the aldermen said, that they had an old pair
which would serve well enough. Yea, said the mayor, the old ones
shall be to hang strangers on, and the new pair for us and our heirs
for ever.
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