The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1880-04-20 00:00:00

" Paabni anti flickers."
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Well, we are flattered. Above all the tumult of
contending parties the sound pierose clear and shrill.
"Where is Loader So you are glad to get= beck again
are you, gentlemen? We had uo idea that we were so
much needed. Why, it w not long ago that •
policeman is reported to bare said that Swanage
people were foals to stead " sad if the fellow
aared t. say anything about him he would" summons"
him and chance it. 0 you bad wan. Is this bow
you interfere with the liberty of the vernacular pries ?
Go along, do, and get oat the summons, or ' the
draper' will take horse and summons you for this
un.Englieh proceeding.
But where has Lucie been? The fact is be went
away, sod at he might be spared voting for Mr. Drat,
erM.P. for Wareham and I 'ode Cestie. Kiddie used
to do a bit of thatching Cone-way, and being caught
lifting up his voice on behalf of Guest,h• was told there ,
wont I hen. more thatching, and so he went off to
look after Lucia to see if he could give him full employ-
ment and Wier pay. We have missed each other.
Better !OM other people had t•dten • holiday.
?dui.... poor Sam for instance had hi# big toe stepped
on and was obliged to stay home t.e. or throe Jar ;
whatever did Maria do meanwhile? Sam, take our
wleice and get tbe other toe Poured the same way.
PG.r Mr. Drat. We hope he won't die just yet,
sqnirs li Bankes, Kent, and his Lordship of
Eldon will ne-d.• cornl vier after ow+ • sore defeat.
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We beg to call the attention f Mr. Peter Man.
well, our new M.L.R., to a mach-needed public
improvement. Mr. Burt has erected • big fl ,wee
Tee on his wall, and the ontaide edge pretty well
rests upon the other umbrella trap. Would it not he
wise to get this projectile turned into a shower bath
for the henefit of all who pass by? or say a drinking
fountain in memory of the teetotalers, alai! dead and
g.ne.
" Veil done," Local Board, for stopping the
drainue of th %t majestic cowshed from bele: emp-
tted near the wring. If it is true that the drain is
now turned into the p,nd where the nettle drink, we
would advise the rnmdcal officer to trace the milk
which is manufactured on the premises.
We know a gentleman engaged in out-door pursuits
who has such short legs that his friends advertise for
three-legged stool, as he cannet stand all day. Ile
was let seen weeping, and •tid he had to drive a nail
in euch a,, elevated posytion that he really should
hove to rise hi feet in order to do it.

stones ore going and es i. coming. awl now the
eke ioni tre cli hi vor' will continue, with
itisi help from Kiddie or the policeman, hie

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Langton must hive more of our attention. We
were aorry to fee that three persons were hurie I in
one day in she cemetery there. Niro. Wild, wife of
l'.o. Wild, will be very much regretted. And poor
old Mr. J.visph Snelling is gone. He broke his thigh
sone years ago on the way back from Wareham.
Whooping cough is carrying if many victims iniong
the children. Mrs. Sorrell baa her kind bands full.
The waif &ling is down from Kingston Church, but
in snits .1 all that it has c we cannot say we
admire the look of it front the side of the old church.
It ae.-mi to want a spire badly. The grounds around
are being laid out.
(ATM.