Quote#Wisdom
As she sat in the low-backed car
Quote bySamuel Lover · 1797–1868
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The low-backed Car, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
As she sat in the low-backed car The man at the turn-pike bar Never asked for the toll But just rubbed his auld poll And looked after the low-backed car.
— Samuel Lover
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