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SG(R.774.014
18 Nov 1774:23,31 (1/21)
In laudable compliance with the eighth article in the
association of the Grand American Continental Congress, we
hear a person lately attempting to divert the public in the
way of horsemanship, in Danvers, was, by order of the
Gentlemen Select-men and Committee of Correspondence, forbid
making any exhibition of that kind in the town. A worthy
example this! May it be imitated by every town, at least in
this county, already distinguished for prudence and
oeconomy, which would be a happy means of discouraging a
number of strolling vagrants, who live by idleness and
dissipation, and are supported by the more honest and
industrious part of the community. And doth it not reflect
indelible disgrace on those people who live in the more
enlightened island of Britain, some of whom are Nobles of
the land, to suffer themselves to be led into a persuasion
that it were possible for a stage mountebank to crawl into a
pint bottle: and in order to gratify their credulous
curiosity, will even consent to pay half a guinea for a
ticket of admittance.
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