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PG-P.738.001
29 Dec-3 Jan 1738 (473)
London, Octob. 18. The following affair happen'd lately in
the upper liberty of Westminster. A woman, with a basket
under here arm, was crying as she went along, Bung your eye;
a Beadle hearing her, said, You are retailing spirituous
liquors, and I shall take you up: The woman beg'd hord
[=hard?] not to be expos'd in the street, and told him, if
he would go into the house she would let him see what liquor
she sold: Accordingly they went into an alehouse us'd by
the Beadle, he went to the bar to get a glass to taste the
liquor, which gave the woman an opportunity of getting off;
the Beadle seeing the basket left, staid to examine that
before he run after her, believing that there was gin in it,
and that she had made her escape without it for fear of
being sent to Bridewell; but upon examination there was
nothing found in the basket but a fine boy, about a week
old, which was left the Beadle to bung his eye with, the
woman having got clear off.
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