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SCAGG.772.004
13-20 Jan 1772:23 (15/692)
London, October 30. A lady in the crowd at Drury Lane
Theatre on Monday night, striving to get up to the two
shilling gallery, had the misfortune to lose one of her
shoes; however, she did not consider this loss of so much
consequence as to impede the gratification of her longing
desire to see the raree-show. Therefore [she] trampled up
one shoe on and the other shoe off and got into the gallery
[in] the third or fourth row, with the additional loss of
her apron. To supply the deficiency of her shoe she tied a
handkerchief round her foot and in that manner walked away
after the play was over. This makes good an old saying, "A
woman will have her way, though she goes barefoot."
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