Wessex . ^- W. I i I Origin of the Fair immodest disclosures made in so doing by the strappingWessex wenches. A torn dress, a violent plunge down-wards into the not unwilling arms of attendant swain,who stands expectant and clad in a pepper-and-saltsuit of West of England tweed, being the cause ofunbridled and long-continued merriment. Aow Joe do squeeze er ! Do ee leave go o me ! Youm a-squeezin I t death ! and similar ex-clamations serve to punctuate the laughter. On the top of the hill—on which, tradition asserts, apedlar some time prior to Henry day, overtakenby a storm, when the rai
Wessex . ^- W. I i I Origin of the Fair immodest disclosures made in so doing by the strappingWessex wenches. A torn dress, a violent plunge down-wards into the not unwilling arms of attendant swain,who stands expectant and clad in a pepper-and-saltsuit of West of England tweed, being the cause ofunbridled and long-continued merriment. Aow Joe do squeeze er ! Do ee leave go o me ! Youm a-squeezin I t death ! and similar ex-clamations serve to punctuate the laughter. On the top of the hill—on which, tradition asserts, apedlar some time prior to Henry day, overtakenby a storm, when the rain ceased, spread out his stockon his cloak to dry, and did so good a trade with thecountry folk that he came again year by year, and thusfounded the Fair—the fair-goers soon gather thick. By this time drovers have penned their sheep,got their cattle into the spaces allotted for them, andthe various showmen are busily engaged in putting thefinishing touches to their arrangements for affordingthe holiday-make
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