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BC.768.050
30 May-6 Jun 1768:2391 (1/25 Supplement)
A certain gentleman at Poplar, the friend of the patriotick
Wilkes, had last Tuesday a very elegant dinner . . . [16
lines describing the prominence of number 45 in the food and
furniture arrangements.] ...the whole concluded with a ball
in the evening, when, 45 ladies entered the room, then the
dances immediately began, and each lady was saluted at the
end of every dance, which were nine minuets, nine rigadoons,
nine cotillons, and 18 country dances, being in the whole
45--after the ladies had been kissed round 45 times, and 45
couple of jellies were eaten, the company retired with great
mirth and festivity, at 45 minutes past 3 o'clock. --Ledger.
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