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VGW(HU.772.099
9 Jul 1772:11 (1093)
London, April 13. Foote being lately in company with a
Scotch gentleman, where Doctor Cadogan's Treatise on the
Gout was the subject, "Yes, yes (says the Scotchman)
Englishmen eat more solids than any other people upon earth;
why, even so near home as Scotland, they are called Poke
Puddings." "It may be so (replied the wit) but I think your
countrymen much better entitled to that epithet than we are,
for I'll be hanged if they have not a finger in every pie.
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