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VGW(HU.767.083
3 Sep 1767:13, 21 (850)
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 tailor, 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 tailor. Last Tuesday them
met at K--n market, where the tailor 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 male 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 tailor 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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