The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1878-07-02 00:00:00

A NAUCIIITY. NI." %MILE.

D wheeler pe .ple Were sheaf, imitted on 13 tturday
with the rather novel entertainment of a fisht between
• r nude of hens not very old het... tint hero f..r .11 that.
Stem the dar• when old "B trlor I! art is " lased to run his
pooltry in the streets hen Oda, have been rather rare,
end even when they did occur the "it ack .4 the Walk "
gener dly interfered to atop the tight. and if the ladies
persisted in wrong doing, "(11mile...tor" brought his
weapons of offence into requisition and "walloped' them
into eulianiaition. We are • try ti In °based to record
that the bald eh tot icleer of in tturday Wei Out so impartial
as hi. to Altered confrere, and did not render justice even.
banded, hut pot all the loll* on one horse, screening the
guilty and puniehing the innocent.
A goof and faitnful lady that hails front that favoured
spot which • friend of ones calls "Sleepy Hollow.' hut
witch itemishire folk know hotter an Padlittrenthide
(thoush their grendfathens called it Piddietrenthide, and
were content with ii,) found last week a charming scented
epistle in her husban I's pocket, the purport or which was
an momment t namt her naushty Benedict in Dorchester
on the to:towing Saturday. The discreet wife did not
discover her "rind" to her faithless "Is ted.." but "nursing
her wrath to ke.p it warm," inwardly resolved to spoil the
I tin. Accordingly when Saturday came and her barer
half sunen aced his intention of "going to market,"
nothing wan said to dionule him from his journey,
but an ...is as he bad departed, the good lady
donned her hest hat awl feather and billowed in
his wake, hut we Atipp.t.e at • respectful dotente, and
well mat of eight. A. lot, arriyins at tile Comity town,
she di-en.. .el her NOM...a one in the neightsuirb el .4
th,,t• ao.ty lidion I lo ! there by hie ride wo he Lily that
bail wtitten the snit att.i alluring epistle that had drawn
bar husiond mtray. 14kirtabilons Inman at once in the
shape .4 • booed of &bum, ant after them light troop.
lad hem sw.t by a smiler display, from the "dark
haute" • reg-alar vett tietnent took place, hats, hair,
aed adering mewdingly. the "naught," one
beta. dale hr ice lienedict. Soon the
hemdet appe.red awl like die umpires at rho ailtshis
maw', tyre. put • sten to further blood Icing shed, at
least in that quarter. The wool, .4th' engagement were
sot eery ru •ntour thr ladies saß.n re wijustell their
seen, .1.1 ~,,, sh the nails—that nits female weapon—hasi
left a mob en he pn-r • ife'ta now, the carmine trickling
...air demi the nether •hle of her probesia, testifying
to the lit renatth of the dtik ones clam.
On the prite• Intee•stina the Cloole lust a retreat dew.
Bouthotreet, followed by the initared Indy who poured
forth • rorr.••,t of eh wren*, until they reached mea
Crocker. dining.rmins, here a halt wag made not there
• a &el if looping in anal out of estabb.htnent,
ultimately the n timbre ono mede a bolt it through
Boom gardenia and down Trinity-street, to the
Jancoon, • here s eottatr) man to.k her
his cart an•l drove off down the Weymouth road, when
or pursuers where entertained with on orati•.n f.m Mrs
enediet trot the hit'. own.' R Knap. whitt
he cm aindins up, the countryman's, having mischief
is eye, almso bolt with the dark hair, awl tame to • halt
hs tbe midst .4 the crated, and thew under the rude
wife's one, TM. was • rare opportunity and orientate
mu not by the iraTo wseen. • Ah." said she, •
In. her her "yet ninety dirty pig," " you Panty beast" "Tour
owe hu•hstal tareett yen out of 4..6 and now you come
to try and ottani mine away." You write pretty letters,
don't Yoe r Whst • pretty style you 'ramie." "Do
meet me my dark ng and kin, these residing tears from off
thee* rad cheeks I" "I ohall die If I don't see you -One."
"Oh toy dtatent dahlia" (here there was • general guffaw
from the crowd. ant suns youngster who hal picked up
a half pound of butter which the dark nem had lost
during the crush in the high-strait threw it smack in
b., fa,. The good natured Jehn thriw it back Mid. into
the crowd, but the butter wan at a discount after thats
sad was rattled about in all directions, and Um gar queen
not liking each saltatiosa jumped out of the vehicle and
made for the Greer Western station, but being overtaken
by the jealous Jana another 'crap took place, hut wafer
WU not heat y enough metal for the naughty deem and
got the worst .sth. round, the Aram ia.trata,aid th"..
'mein, by this tone imam Put in an •romrance Sergeant
Mitchell moo put • stop 10 the seen* and the dark
Itertainly not fair) lady wen led her war to the alman ea
route for Frampton, and was no more maw Thus ended
the hen fights