Few Friends
A NOBLEMAN, extremely rich but a miser, stopping to change horses at
Athlone, the carriage was surrounded by paupers, imploring alms, to whom
he turned a deaf ear, and drew up the glass. A ragged old woman, going
round to the other side of the carriage, bawled out, in the old peer's
hearing, Please you, my lord, just chuck one tin-penny out of your
coach, and I'll answer it will trait all your friends in Athlone.