TOWN CRIER’S STRANGE'DUTIES
Town-criers, five of whom have been competing for the crying championship of England, have some strange announcements to make sometimes. In the middle of the eighteenth century the burgh of Lanark was so poor that it had only one butcher, who, before killing a sheen, made sure it would be sold by asking the town-crier, or bellman, to cry the following in the streets: Bell-ell-ell! There’s a fat sheep to kill! A leg for the provost, Another for the priest, The bailies and the deacons They’ll tak’ the neist. And if the fourth leg we cannot sell, The sheep it matfn leeve and gae back to the hill 1
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 9
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112TOWN CRIER’S STRANGE'DUTIES New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12613, 25 November 1926, Page 9
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