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VGW(PA.737.013
28 Jan-4 Feb 1737:42 (27)
Advertisement. To all gentlemen and ladies, who delight in
the noble and Princely diversion of hunting: This is to give
notice, that a dunce will be hunted every other Friday, in
the gazette, 'til he is fairly run down. He is an animal of
a most peculiar and singular nature; being very long-winded
and pertinacious; and is known to afford excellent sport,
having tired more people, then all the foxes, that ever
Yorkshire produced. He is entirely void of defensive arms;
but if he be left at full liberty, he has a certain
offensive weapon, something like a gray-goose quill, through
which is distilled an atramentous, poisonous juice, which
has often had most dismal and calamitous effects, and has
been observed, instantly, and at first sight, to deprive
several persons of all manner of patience. And, that he may
be hunted to some tune, musick shall attend the company to
the field; and after the chase is over, the gentlemen and
ladies shall be diverted with a song. So, God save the
King.
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