Filial Affection, or a Trip to Gretna Green, December 15, couple is carried north towards Scotland in a fast post-carriage or chaise, pursued by the woman's angry father and a posse of riders. A signpost at right points "To Gretna Green". The father urges his horse forward and holds a whip, as the man and woman lean out of the coach windows and brandish pistols. A new restrictive marriage law


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