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Account Of Shakspeare's Crab-Tree.
country . The TOPERS , who were the stoutest fellows of the two , challenged all England , it is said , to contest with them in deep potations of the good old English beverage ; a challenge which Shakspeare . and a party of his 3 oung friends at Stratford readily accepted : but , going on ajWhitsttnday to meet them at Bidford , a village about seven miles distantthey were much mortified to find that the TOPERS
, had that very day ( owing to some misunderstanding of the place ancktime appointed ) gone to a nei ghbouring fair on a similar scheme witli that which brought Shakspeare and his friends to Bidford . Being thus disappointed , they were obliged to take up with the SIPPERS , whom they found at that village , but whom they held in great contempt . On trial , however , the Stratfordiaris proved so unequal to
the combat , that they were ' obliged to yield ; and , while they had yet the use of their legs , they set out towards home . ' Unfortunately , our great Poet ' s head , and that of one of his friends , not being'so strong as that of their companions , they found themselves unable to proceed ; and , laying themselves down , they took up their rest for the night under the shelter of a large wide-spreading crab-tree .
When they awoke in the morning , his friend proposed that they should return to the place of combat ; but , being probably weary of his company , he refused . Farewell , therefore , he exclaimed , . Piping Pebworth , dancing Marston , Haunted Hilbro ' , bungry Grafton , Dodging Exball , Popish Wicksford , Beggarly Brome , and drunken Bidford 1
The rhymes are certainly not so exact as he would have made iri his closet "; but , as field-measures , they may do well enough ; and the epithets are strongly characteristic of his manner , being peculiarly and happily adapted to the several villages whence the miscellaneous group of Sippers had resorted to Bidford . This celebrated tree is still standing , and is known far and near by the name of SHAKSPEARE ' s CRAB-TREE ; and the foregoing
anecdote was well authenticated by a clergyman , a native of -Warwickshire , who died at Stratford , at a great age , above thirty years ago M . E .
New Experiment In Agriculture.
NEW EXPERIMENT IN AGRICULTURE .
p \/ ir R' BIakes , e y > Exhall , Warwickshire , has lately made a valu--LVJL able experiment , by mixing two waggon loads of tan ( after it has been used by the tanners ) with one waggon load of unslacked lime , which lay together for a week , and was used as a top dressing for turnips and for grass , lands , and found to be a most excellent manure ; perhaps lime may contribute to open and separate the parts of strong clays ; but , however that may be , when constantly used on any land , without an adequate provision of turf or vegetable foodfoi it to act upon , lime will totally exhaust all kinds of land , "
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Account Of Shakspeare's Crab-Tree.
country . The TOPERS , who were the stoutest fellows of the two , challenged all England , it is said , to contest with them in deep potations of the good old English beverage ; a challenge which Shakspeare . and a party of his 3 oung friends at Stratford readily accepted : but , going on ajWhitsttnday to meet them at Bidford , a village about seven miles distantthey were much mortified to find that the TOPERS
, had that very day ( owing to some misunderstanding of the place ancktime appointed ) gone to a nei ghbouring fair on a similar scheme witli that which brought Shakspeare and his friends to Bidford . Being thus disappointed , they were obliged to take up with the SIPPERS , whom they found at that village , but whom they held in great contempt . On trial , however , the Stratfordiaris proved so unequal to
the combat , that they were ' obliged to yield ; and , while they had yet the use of their legs , they set out towards home . ' Unfortunately , our great Poet ' s head , and that of one of his friends , not being'so strong as that of their companions , they found themselves unable to proceed ; and , laying themselves down , they took up their rest for the night under the shelter of a large wide-spreading crab-tree .
When they awoke in the morning , his friend proposed that they should return to the place of combat ; but , being probably weary of his company , he refused . Farewell , therefore , he exclaimed , . Piping Pebworth , dancing Marston , Haunted Hilbro ' , bungry Grafton , Dodging Exball , Popish Wicksford , Beggarly Brome , and drunken Bidford 1
The rhymes are certainly not so exact as he would have made iri his closet "; but , as field-measures , they may do well enough ; and the epithets are strongly characteristic of his manner , being peculiarly and happily adapted to the several villages whence the miscellaneous group of Sippers had resorted to Bidford . This celebrated tree is still standing , and is known far and near by the name of SHAKSPEARE ' s CRAB-TREE ; and the foregoing
anecdote was well authenticated by a clergyman , a native of -Warwickshire , who died at Stratford , at a great age , above thirty years ago M . E .
New Experiment In Agriculture.
NEW EXPERIMENT IN AGRICULTURE .
p \/ ir R' BIakes , e y > Exhall , Warwickshire , has lately made a valu--LVJL able experiment , by mixing two waggon loads of tan ( after it has been used by the tanners ) with one waggon load of unslacked lime , which lay together for a week , and was used as a top dressing for turnips and for grass , lands , and found to be a most excellent manure ; perhaps lime may contribute to open and separate the parts of strong clays ; but , however that may be , when constantly used on any land , without an adequate provision of turf or vegetable foodfoi it to act upon , lime will totally exhaust all kinds of land , "