TAILIEUCHUNG - Stewponey

In a faded and patched blue coat, turned up with red, the bellman of Kinver appeared in the one long street of that small place--if we call it a town we flatter it, if we speak of it as a village we insult it--and began to ring outside the New Inn. A crowd rapidly assembled and before the crier had unfolded the paper from which he proposed reading, an ape of a boy threw himself before him, swinging a turnip by the stalk, assumed an air of pomposity and ingenious caricature of the bellman, and shouted: "O yes! O yes! O yes! Ladies and gents all,. | 1 Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17. Chapter 18. Chapter 19. Chapter 20. Chapter 21. Chapter 22. Chapter 23. Chapter 24. Chapter 25. Chapter 26. Stewponey 2 Stewponey by Sabine Baring-Gould 1897 Chapter 1. 3 Chapter 1. OYEZ In a faded and patched blue coat turned up with red the bellman of Kinver appeared in the one long street of that small place--if we call it a town we flatter it if we speak of it as a village we insult it--and began to ring outside the New Inn. A crowd rapidly assembled and before the crier had unfolded the paper from which he proposed reading an ape of a boy threw himself before him swinging a turnip by the stalk assumed an air of pomposity and ingenious caricature of the bellman and shouted O yes O yes O yes Ladies and gents all I gives notice that you none of you ain t to believe a word Gaffer Edmed says. O no O no O no Get along you dratted jackanapes exclaimed the crier testily and striking the youth in the small of his back with the bell handle sent him sprawling. Then striding forward he took position with a foot on each side of the prostrate urchin rang again and called O yes O yes O yes This is to give notice that this ere evening at six o clock at Stewponey there will be a grand champion match at bowls on the green. The prize to be Bladys Rea commonly called Stewponey Bla. Admittance one shilling. Arf-a-crown inner ring and ticket admits to the oly function by kind permission of the proprietor in the Chapel of Stourton Castle. At six o clock per-cise. No arf-price. Children and dogs not admitted. From the door of the New Inn issued Thomas Hoole the landlord in his shirt sleeves. Thomas Hoole was a bit of a wag and a crumb of a poet. On the board outside his tavern he had inscribed the following verses of his own composition -- Customers came and I did trust em. So I lost money

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