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NYGWPB.767.024
30 Jul 1767:31 (1282)
Extract of a letter from Dunkeld, May 8. A buxom country
wench, who lives at D--- a village about four miles from
this place, was so harrassed by the addresses of a number of
lovers, that she gave her hand to a taylor, more out of view
of being freed from the visits of the others, than from any
particular attachment to him; this step so enraged another
of her lovers, who, till then, had flattered himself of
having the principal place in her affections, that he was
resolved to be revenged on the taylor. Last Tuesday they
met at K--n market, when the taylor had taken in more liquor
than he could well carry; being in this helpless state, his
rival, as they were returning home together, took the
opportunity of performing the same operation on him, that
the Italians do on their male singers, upon which the rival
made his escape. The wife declared she would live no longer
in a place where she would be the talk of the whole country,
and made her elopement to Edinburgh. The taylor is thought
to be in a fair way of recovery, and seems more afflicted by
the loss of his wife than of his manhood.
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