The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-03-06 00:00:00

MRS. GRUNDY ON THE DISPUTED
ALDICRUANIC GOWN.

Dint id•tritit IllaDlirriat,— 1 shouldn't ha'
troubled yer on thick yer subject if your ;miser, or
any other paper, bad ever shored it to the public in
its proper light. But none nal yer haint done so, an'
as nolo o' the people as I talks to seem to see it in
It. trite bearing, I zed to myself, here's soother job
vor I. Well yer see, Shish yer disputed alderman's
gonad 04110 begin'd atter thick Asthma. Mairror
Aylis had ben alderman o' the Waymuth ward •
good nosy year, and lam November as ever was him
had to be re-tinted agin. Bevis. the Whales
tram'd off, h. wer maids &Mayor on vor the present
yea., en' then. when the aldermen was propoz'd, be
ritorn'd himself. Kaiak" Elegised, who was • ousso.
°wave! croultd-eight on the 'minion, rased • pint o'
law, argiwisit as how the Mayor beim' the returnis'
ovviser, could'ot return hisself. 'Pon thick yer,
the others all left an' aid as how Meister Howard'.
law w.i .11 bash an' .003.11211. All the other lawyers
„ too. sod as how Moister Howard was
mom ire one member offer'd to het vorty to wen,
if Masser Reward weir to try the raise, be oedn't
di a single leg to elan' Well, as yer may sap.
posse, thick rather riled Haider Howard's temper.
'Twist more than hnisaa Doter could Mao', or out to
etas' vor a perfessional man to be told by Damper-
feinsiOsel men' as bow be didn't know nothin 'boot
his hisses.. Why, his perfeesional reppytation wee
at stake ; an' in be bail alow'd the molter to a dragt
there jest wee bets' laft it, who'd ever arise that
arise &gip to he to know 'bout law? Why, nobody.
People god all a esikile Do use goin to he; sem how
be out lan at in the town Colloid about his law,
an' :se bow be aseak't out met, like a dog uneakin'
out o' a 'air with ill tale haogin down Minton it.
lege N., Meister Headhitter, thick ye, ood never
do. Zelf.preservetion be the fast law o' sake,

an' MURIA; Howard did mills sem we Mei

than try to preserve his sorfenirieel reppyalion
wham, to the lona' an' jadeite as wer again' on
agia him, be replied, "Thia yer be so plane
in area law nor to ley wooers, but 11l take
the ease to mother *ice, whet it shall be seen who's
right—you or L" Now, Meister Heedbittor, I
dant porton to know Doan 'bout show manes,
yer no, I never nose Dom. But moose as how I bed •
p.m' or two, ale was to take it to sea one an do
know ; mom, Tor instants, I was to take it to the
Mayor hizzall an' sz he whether twer Esetiojy or
Weetinjy show, an' he was to tell I as how toot
Fsetiojr, whet ood he think if I was to bust right
out • laMo an' toll he twer all boa au' Damao*, an'
that be didn't know nothin"boot sham Agee,
if! was to nod to the brewry Tor grains, an' arts,
I'd • got em, was to send ace o' my nrvants to nay
as bow tenni% groins, bat twer chaff as was seat
can't the worthy alderman natnilly reel iadignont,
en' sad I a lump book that I nasa impordent
old 00MAII, an' that in fitter I most hasp ay chaff
au' hs'pence to myself ? Well, what's nee vor
goose be ems Der the gander, as the saying is. The
disputed alderman's gownd Moe, tin true, be quite
• new on. It had INTIM bevore been argivied aeon
any o' the judges. Bet Winter Howard took a
common souse view o' the matter, en' an his per-
fenamel reppytnion was at stake, Iwo weak to work.
An' what hove a hen the consequence ? Master
Howard have ehowd 'ern that his law was good law,
an' that tber wedn't no boa nor 000311008 at all
about it, min' as how the lamed judges o' the land
all agree, oder Marin' Wit argyotints beak sides,
that the cane be one &morels o serious cossidow
yam Mica be bow natters •tood whim Heisler
Thomas sat if the Mayor nodal be deeded out o'
the borrow wands. Vrom this pinto' new as Moister
Thomas looks at thick yer lama moan, him sa'
many others thinks as how the Mayor be he
dealt wee. But oat the raitpayon to be aderlt
woe the ILI prose ? Unsay net Why did Hoak%
Howard goo to law ? Wm it mum be
coveted the alderman gonad I Not •
I've • beard, an' I linen it be gaits °arrest, NW
Meader How-rd donut care We valley o' • pin's
head about the govrod—what honour be deer ia a
wearin' on it? But then, it maws said, if M•iiliirt
Howard dean% went the bosom., why do he goo ow
a spendin' mosey to get it, a' walla' We Mayor
mad mosey a hoopla' met? I'll tell Ise, Moister
Healhitter, what my idear be, on' I'll venter to my
I be about right. Yee awl, Um, be tw• lot*"
in then par pie. Although be have paved law
wasn't within bash ear troneme, share's the ban'
hat at ea' jeser'd, so' no bell be booed lo goo me wee
It apurpose to vindicate bis hosoar, us well as his
=Mine. It seem to I, on' I Mink es low moan
an kaowe good naming 00l agree wee L, that
What Men as aft an' jeered at his law oeglha to do.
—iv emdceatwins, Meyer to spend no non
WOO, —l2B. what a gessansa az have bees Mani
algid to apace vrom mother that have isolated in.
nor oellit
ist;pollvgiao—ccaviva that vault, am'
sake the a Amerada. lv thick wee dna, au
„body es tbo insult was maid, it atebbee that
MAW Ilaword cod tosaidor his homer saidoisally
zetielia All a steals, iv he should goo earned.
wee the mine wave Wok, why, thee.'. el' dna' so
owl twa was he. la coon% Ilaistat Boatilsitiee,

neither you .or yrs ruder@ nol think u how I be
so vain as to 'latter loyealf Oat *Mk Mats itreen
by ma 00l be taken. Pr no witch Tway. 'Twood
be takin' too mash starch out o' tbor shirt °aims to
bo guided by a old Oman. Will, Wm. all I 068
sayAe, iv they 00l ran tber beds ages 16_0i-rest
weo they eyee open, it Mint Ely milt. Tin= Uhe
the sefferera, not I. Mebbm, I :ball Irma tamest
more to my on tbiok matter Mamby, an' in tbe moan
I tints, Mauler Headbitter,
I tempo, your umbel Orfila,
MRS. GRUNDY.