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SCGCJ.767.070
25 Aug 1767:21 (90)
London. . . 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 them met at K--n market, where the
taylor had taken in more liquor than he could well carry;
being in this helpless state, his rival, as they were coming
home together, took the opportunity of performing the same
operation on him that the Italians do on their make singers,
upon which the rival made his escape. The wife declared she
would live no longer in a place where she should 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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