Cautioned not to over-run
Naval toleration,
He replied in language un-
Fit for publication.
When the captain in alarm
Strove to solve the riddle,
Edward slipped a dreamy arm
Round that awful middle.
Such a catastrophic change
Set his shipmates thinking;
Rumour whispered, "It is strange;
Clearly he is drinking."
Ever more insistent got
This malicious fable,
Till he tied a true-love's knot
In the anchor cable.
"During December, 1661, meals for necessitous school children were provided at Chorley at a cost of 4d. per meal per scholar."
Provincial Paper.
In gratitude for the Restoration, we suppose. Hence the watchword, "Good old Chorley!"
"Summoned for permitting three houses to stray on Stoke Park on the 19th inst ... defendant admitted the offence, but said that some one must have let them out by taking the chain off the gate."—Provincial Paper.