The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1859-04-19 00:00:00

Legal.

and the other gentlemen were, to wait upon them. My
daughter is 15 years and 4 months old. 3ly daughter
got wine change, and Cane to me to snake • complaint,
and said she would not serve any longer in the house, as
a gentleman had kissed her. I then went into the snug
and spoke to the defendant about it, and said I did not
allow any such liberties to be taken with my daughter.
He asked sue where the mistletoe was! I said I did
not allow any there. He did not say any more, but
turned my head back and kissed me, and said it was the
" sweetest kiss" he had ever had. (Laughter.) I don't
know whether he is a married man. I said I would tell
my husband, and he then went off immediately.
Mr. Brett-What is the name of the public-house!
Witness-" Nonsuch." Mr. Brett-Was there any mis-
tletoe in the snug! Witness-There was no miatletoe.
I would not let any mistletoe be put up, on acconnt of
my daughter. Mr. Brett - Was there not something
hanging up? Witness-There was none where I was;
there was something up, but I took care there was no
mistletoe, because my daughter waited there ; mY daugil-
ter was not in the room the same time as I was. Mr.
Brett-Did not you hear your daughter say to him that
she would slap him in the face as she did others? Wit-
ness-She did slap him in the face sifter be took the
liberty. Mr. Brett-Did you slap I ! Witness-I
did not slap him. Ile said it was the " sweetest kiss" lie
had ever had, and I told him perils's; it would be the
dearest. (Laughter.) My little daughter deseribed him
to me by his whiakers, which are somewhat busby. I
am not aware that lie boasts of being • handsome wan,
or a very clever man.
Mks Louisa Slownian ('super, a pretty and very smart
little girl, the daughter of the at witness, was then
She said I am the daughter of the last wit-
men. I renieniher the defendant ,oining to the bar on
the 24th of Deoembir. Ile kissed use -(laughter) -and
I dapped him in the face. (Renewed langliter.l I then
went out and (old my mamma that a dirty old Jew had
kissed me. ((;rr at laughter.) WI en any mother went
in alie said she did not allow gentlemen to take sub
liberties with her daughter, and he kinsed her! Mr.
Brett-Don't you like to be kissed by Jews? (Laugh-
ter.) Witness-Not by any gentleman ; not particularly
Jews. (Great laughter.) I blipped his face, and pushed
him away violently ; I slapped him more than mice.
This concluded the evidence In the part of the plain-
tiff.
Mr. Brett said thin was the first that they had heard
of an attorney kissing. There wire times and masons
which might lend a particular zest to a kiss; end if any
of them had not tried, lie would venture to say that a
kiss at Christman was worth all the kisses they got the
year round. (Laughter.) There was nomething in the
weather that made it so agre•able- (renewed laughter)
-and, according to the opinion of his client, lie hail no
doubt that that was the nicest kiss he had ever got in
his life. (Laughter.) They had seen this nice lady in
the box, and for the life of him lie did not see how
defendant could kiss her without getting on the table.
(lautglitsr.) She must have been alinoet stooping down ;
and although there was no mistletoe Mr. Dawatin meat
have believed there was, and the temptation was a great
one. The girl came in, and he kissed her jocosely. Mr.
Dawson might have been jolly on that evening. Poor
Mr. Dawson was overcome. (Laughter.) His cheek
was just tickled with Mrs. Coopers ringlets, and he
just tickled her cheek (laughter), and he had not taken
the bloom off the peach ; she just looked as well now
as then. Her neighbours would be just as fond of lice;
in fact, he rather thought they would go the faster to
see her, because when the acoauat of the trial appeared
in the papers everybody would go to the "Nonsuch" to
look at Mrs. Cooper, who sas kissed by Mr. Dawson.
The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for £5;
the learned Assessor remarking that it was a "dear
kiss."