Wit and whimsy in a local crowd gossip column
A drunken man jailed after a jest about the earth’s roundness prompts a bystander’s quip. A probate office Bible remark and a graveyard poet joke mingle with a stormy coffeehouse scene as Bannister complains of wind and a hat being blown away.
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