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but cannot be described; among a,- thousand men, there were not above'three shirts and a half. Some of the nightly Syrens of Eagle-court added to the groupe ; and about five o’clock a carman of boxing fame, and a Mr. Maddock of piigilistic eminence, met to fight for a guinea ; and they chose Charing-Crcss, that their falls might be soft; and soft they were, and about,equal; but in abdm twenty m'mtttes the poof carman sickened, sighed, gaped, and panted. Skill conquered strength, and vidtory was proclaimed for Maddock, whose hide, notwithstanding about thirty hard falls’flfpon the hard pavement, remained near half as white as it was when he began ; and as to the black and blue, the guinea he won would buy a plaister.
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London Oracle
London, Middlesex, GB
Mon, Aug 10, 1789
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