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MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.
memory. One evening over a bottle, he laid a wager,
that the next morning at the rehearsal, he would repeat
the whole of the contents of a Daily Advertiser, from
the beginning to the end. At the rehearsal his opponent
reminded him of the wager, imagining that, as he was
intoxicated the preceding night, he must certainly have
forgotten the circumstance, and rallied him for boasting
of his memory. Lyon, taking the paper from his pocket,
desired the other to decide whether he did or did not win
the wager. Notwithstanding the want of connection of
the paragraphs, the number and variety of advertise-
ments, and the heterogeneous mass of matter which en-
ters into the composition of every newspaper, he re-
peated it from the beginning to the end without making a
mistake.
Singular Death.
The Rev. Mr. Hagemore. who lived at Calthorn, in
Leicestershire, kept one servant of each sex, whom he
locked up every night. His last employment in the
evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs,
and fire his gun. Going on the morning of the 1st
January, 1746, as usual to release his servants, one of his
dogs suddenly fawned upon him, and threw him into a
pond, where the water was breast high. His servants
heard him call for assistance, but being unable to quit
their prisons, he was drowned. At the time of his death,
he had thirty gowns and cassocks, fifty-eight dogs, one
hundred pair of breeches, one hundred pair of boots,
four hundred pair of shoes, eighty wigs, though he al-
ways wore his own hair, eighty waggons and carts, eighty
ploughs, and used none, fifty saddles, and furniture for
the menage, thirty wheelbarrows, and so many walking-
sticks, that a toy-man in Leicester Fields offered eight
pounds for them. He had about sixty horses and mares,
three
MISCELLANEOUS GLEANINGS.
memory. One evening over a bottle, he laid a wager,
that the next morning at the rehearsal, he would repeat
the whole of the contents of a Daily Advertiser, from
the beginning to the end. At the rehearsal his opponent
reminded him of the wager, imagining that, as he was
intoxicated the preceding night, he must certainly have
forgotten the circumstance, and rallied him for boasting
of his memory. Lyon, taking the paper from his pocket,
desired the other to decide whether he did or did not win
the wager. Notwithstanding the want of connection of
the paragraphs, the number and variety of advertise-
ments, and the heterogeneous mass of matter which en-
ters into the composition of every newspaper, he re-
peated it from the beginning to the end without making a
mistake.
Singular Death.
The Rev. Mr. Hagemore. who lived at Calthorn, in
Leicestershire, kept one servant of each sex, whom he
locked up every night. His last employment in the
evening was to go round his premises, let loose his dogs,
and fire his gun. Going on the morning of the 1st
January, 1746, as usual to release his servants, one of his
dogs suddenly fawned upon him, and threw him into a
pond, where the water was breast high. His servants
heard him call for assistance, but being unable to quit
their prisons, he was drowned. At the time of his death,
he had thirty gowns and cassocks, fifty-eight dogs, one
hundred pair of breeches, one hundred pair of boots,
four hundred pair of shoes, eighty wigs, though he al-
ways wore his own hair, eighty waggons and carts, eighty
ploughs, and used none, fifty saddles, and furniture for
the menage, thirty wheelbarrows, and so many walking-
sticks, that a toy-man in Leicester Fields offered eight
pounds for them. He had about sixty horses and mares,
three