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Evening Star, Issue 3382, 22 December 1873, Page 3

Pleading at the Bar: Begging for a drink. Something from the Nursery : The child who cried for an hour did not find it. ('(uuwa.ll Sixty Years Ago.—Few persons then could either write or road, except one here and there, who passed for a great scholar if he could si"n Ins name and road a chapter in the Psalter without much spelling. The overseer, not knowing how to write or cipher, kept the accounts of his monthly disbursements on the dairy-door, in round o’s for shillings and long chalks for pence. The last Saturday of each month he took the dair / door on his back and carried it to f'hurchtown, that the clerk might enter his accounts in the parish hook. ‘ One Saturday in the season when days arc short aitd streams high, the overseer couldn’t make out his accounts and reach N ancherrow Water before dark ; and in passing, with the door on his back, over the wet and slippery stones, he lust his balance and fell into the stream. By iruod luck the door was under, and floated him down to a place where the water spread out shallow, and there he landed, but all the accounts wer« washed out. lis said that the pvorseer’s mishap was the reason why the first was built over Nancherrow Water.