The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette. — 1886-02-16 (Dorchester, Dorset, England)

THRIN ACRES AND • COW. Our inreonfasym la., ignorant, and cannot write tny name, And float la trio', but if I in, who in the moat to blame, I know if I could remil and write and cypher any. how, I'd try and fluid out all ahout "Three acres and a Cow," I've had but little laming, tone, ma pinion oft do state I He preachem to um how to lore, and shows us how to hate, And if 11w so far twthind in learning, Tallow paroulti'. (wilt, who twits u. with "Three Acres and a Cos." goes to Church sometimes to learn to do the thing that's right, 1.11111 owini away to nit Inc down where I Sill ,lit of All I has, lartintl I !anted at Church, moo to rip awl when, I  'ill* heard talk alenit  'Three Acres  , • . That'a - ... , .. suicidal tendency is a difficult thing to discover in an and a Cow" ordinary patient. The symptoms are inimetitnei very I went to hear a lecture too, our parson took the "light, and the doctor is as surprised as anyluly that .lair, the patient has conimitted suicide, Of coarse it ts Th different in • lunatic asylum. lobserrtsl no suicidal e squire and all the county folks and magistrate. tendency in Mr. Bartlett. He never spoke to Me aa was I stood behindthere, my betters, as I mantis behind the to hhiers views ab out matrimony, but he ilid speak about ot mature almont as extraordinary. phoigh, Mr Beal • One qnestion ea to deltimona. Did the And there they all brought up again "Three Acre" dp.; ~..i' noi imagine that ha had • wortn in his and • Cow, throat •..—Yen, he did. Some ladies who MIA in the room wore Yellow Petti- Mr. I.ickfold : Had he fits of crying?—! heard so, cont., but I never saw any. Mu. Bartlett told me on in voila They callA em " Pritnrive DAIWA" I think, AA MlMt iiACAAiiMA that he had had another tit lif crying, and .41 about for votes, asking him hi. told 1111. that that was so. One come'll to me with smiles and tracks and to4l The Conine'. : 011 you think that that anwe from toe that As how, hysteria Of nervous debility ! -Yea. Alm Bartlett One trus among em was about "Throe Acres and told me that he eat in his armchair and cried for an A I *..w, hone or more at a tin,,, awl when I naked him why he Our squire and parson's mighty thick, as anyone can cried, he mid became. e WAS 140 hAilliy. ilatiwhior.l He stated that he e 11.1 not help it. This "marred WV. Mit neither on 'eni takes account of any such as ,ns, I more than once. Hysteria to mote unusual in a Man EXUrptillg When the 'l..ction c.one, and then they than in a woman. Hysteria is a disieue of itself. 4. lIIAIIII A lii.W. i By mfr. Dennis :It would he "lamed to try to curs "three . toothache by swallowing an mince of chlondonn, I And callA me friend, and laughing maid Acres and a Cow." first became acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett on December 10th. The lady came to use, and I New I've Inven Pilule.' all thin while to and out what visited h.., 111141411 d three time" a day. .Ustut nix in they mean, the evening on the last day of the year I went with I never heard .4 this before, nor ever bare 1 peen, him to a dentist to have a tooth extracted. Soon , So many lady visitors at home iir anyhow, after four the next morning I IVIIA c.alled by Mr. As has 'teen prating in my ears "Three Acres and Doggett'a servant, who twirl, "Mr. Bartlett is ill, and a Cow." Mrs. Bartlett th Odra he is dead." The news staggered I fancy though I may be wrong, that somehow it may in.', because whoi I left him he was practically in lw, amind health mei in rather good spirits for liim. Diu. Some "Owl folks have puuled been almost As much ing the three weeks I attended him Mts. Bartlett an me, never com iiiii nicated to toe sillier directly . n. indirectly And may lie it is but a craze, that's all the rage that .he hart ail -tered chloodorni to him. eater just now, tinny or intet nally, lint she mentioned that he fuel A figment of the Tory brain "Three Acres and • taken thlorodyne. .After Ow pot workxt examination Cow." I i•tAtl,ll that the contents of the stomach smelt of , chloroform. And I am ntrongly tinder the impres.don that she asked, " is it isswilile that he dosi froin chloroform !" After the po.f onorfrio examination Nlni. Bartlett gave me the keys ot her drawers, and asked inc to fetch her hat from the . .r nom, where the body was lying. I carried out the entire drawer, from which she took her hat. I replaeal the tl-awer and locked it, bringing lock the lo.v. to her. She requested Inc to retain them. and I did so, but aft. r 11.iii111 days Mr. Dyson came for them. An hour after,. wards Mrs. Bartlett came and uknowledged liming rec,,i,,,, 0,,,,,. I ileis,rell a few milliliter.. C.,ni ersation with her, and then it nowt have Ireen that, among other questions, -Ise asked if her litishand could have died of chloroform. When I suggested that he niti4 have 'wane...A A g. 11.1 liiialltitY ~f chloroform. then it was that she maid, "No, he only rubbed his gums with it." At this stage the inquiry W:I•1 again adjourned.