You shall have my watch to be cleaned, and the kind jeweler shall lend you the money to pay the taxman while he cleans the watch-I don't mind, gran'pa.
"Lady Audley's Secret"
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
"And the rent is ninety pounds, and the taxes twenty-two," said Mrs Mackenzie, with her handkerchief up to her eyes; "and there's the taxman come now for seven pound ten, and where I'm to get it, unless I coined my blood, I don't know."
"Miss Mackenzie"
Anthony Trollope