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Beggers on Horse Back.

Published in the Illinois Intelligencer, Vandalia, Illinois on Friday, September 23, 1825

     Horses are so plentiful in Buenos Ayres, that beggers take their rounds and ask alms on horseback, without diminishing, in any degree, their claims to sympathy. These beggers do not extend their excursions, and thus call in question the old proverb, “set a begger a horseback,” Dew. P.

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