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The Right to Sponge on Everybody

by Colm Brogan

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The New Vices, or: The World Turned Upside Down

An Oxford undergraduate is currently earning an honest penny by working as a pavement artist. This is not surprising, for in the ancient universities of England proletarianism has become something of a fad. Nor is there any surprise in the fact that the young man needs the money. He is studying at Oxford on a County Council grant which he finds insufficient. Therefore he gets busy with his crayons and lays down his cap in supplication for the coppers of passers-by.

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