Evidence Type: Newspaper Report
DATE: 7 September 1844
POLICE.
SATURDAY.
THE LIGHT FANTASTIC TOE.—Business in the Public line being now a species of private retirement, more particularly in the back suburbs of Parramatta, it requires some extra powerful excitement beyond the one to be produced by rum and brandy to draw people in to the Hostelire, and therefore several hosts have provided the dulcets [sic] sounds [of a] violin to aid them in the collection of the Tipplers. It may be a fiddle-de-de method of business; but n’importe if it scrapes cash together. On the previous evening the Three Graces, MARGARET TEER, MARGARET CAIN, and ELIZA DAVIS, all ticket-of-leave, who now stood with very niobean aspect in the dock, lured by the sweet discoursing of the Paginini who did the wrist and elbow work for MR. THOMAS BLAKE, of Argyle-street, dropt into the Bakers’ Arms “en passant” and seeing a sort of Rigdumfunndo’s going on, in a moment of delirious joy rushed in its mazy whirls and twirls, and by their footing it proved themselves capable of great feats of agility. Two minutes afterwards The “Fox” who goes prowling about, also dropt — we beg pardon, we should have said appeared, for he has a most demon-like method of suddenly appearing when least of all wanted or expected, and like Banquo’s Ghost, who, by the way, from his ghulish [sic] propensities, he very much resembles, broke up the assembly “with most admirable disorder.” The said FOX being a man whose pedestals were not made for dancing, and more over, belonging to that class whom Shakespeare describes as the one “who are not fond of music,” did not admire the recreation the ladies were engaged in, and accordingly made a gallopade [sic] with them to the watch-house. The consequence of this, had not the assembled Justiciaries been in a bland and lenient frame of temperament, the Graces would have become, in the Female Factory, graceless. However, with short but impressive hint that “capers were sometimes very sour,” they were discharged.
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