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• Red hot brass farthings were put in white wine vinegar with salt to make a solution to green any sort of pickle.
• In response to overseas tours by the Home Nations, he declared " I don't care a brass farthing about the improvement of the game in France, Belgium, Austria or Germany " and accused FIFA's one member one vote system of " magnifying the midgets ".
• In 1883 Roberts's friend Edmund Collins published his biography, " The Life and Times of Sir John A . MacDonald, " which devoted a lengthy chapter to " Thought and Literature in Canada, . " Collins lost no time in dethroning what had been English Canada's top poets, the'three Charleses': Charles Heavysege, Charles Sangster, and Charles Mair . " Collins allots Heavysege only one paragraph, dismisses Sangster s verse as'not worth a brass farthing,'and ignores Mair completely . " In contrast, Collins devoted fifteen pages to Roberts . " more than anyone else, Edmund Collins is probably responsible for the early acceptance of Charles G . D . Roberts as Canada s foremost poet ."