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Alley men wrote letters for shares, and when the allotments were obtained made some 10s. on each share. Some of these
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are known to have made only fifty farthings of fifty shares of a railway now the first in the kingdom. The sellers of letters used to meet in the Royal Exchange before business hours, till the beadle had at last to drive them away to make room for the merchants. There is a story told of an
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Alley man