Scottish Beggars

Every Sunday a collection is made for the sick or necessitous; for poor’s rates are unknown in every country parish in Scotland. Notwithstanding the common people are but just roused from their native indolence, very few beggars are seen in North Britain either they are full masters of the lesson of being content with a very little; or, what is more probable, they are possessed of a spirit that will struggle hard with necessity before it will bend to the asking of alms.

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