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PC.768.099
22-29 Aug 1768:2431 (85)
London, April 30. . . [account of quarrel and fight between
a small-coal man and a barber.] This incident reminds us of
a droll simile written several years ago by the ingenious
Mr. Smart; but we suppose the author never expected to hear
of its being realized.
Thus when a barber and a collier fight,
The barber beats the luckless collier--white,
The luckless collier heaves his pond'rous sack,
And big with vengeance, beats the barber black:
In comes the brick-dust-man, with grime o'erspread
And beat the barber and the collier--red.
Black, red and white, in various clouds are tost,
Till in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.
May 30. . . On Wednesday night a great number of
coalheavers, armed with cutlasses, &c. went on board several
colliers lying below bridge, an interrupted the sailors in
their work; a dreadful fray ensued, wherein it is computed
about twenty lives were lost. . .
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