Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 277
Simon had to take a basket of eggs to market, but findingthat two butter women had fallen out, and to that degree, … Simple Simons Misfortunes. 261 that they had taken one another by the quoif, their hair andtheir fillets flying about their ears, he essayed to part them,but got pushed down, and his eggs were all broken. Theconstable, coming up, thought they were drunk, and clappedthem in the stocks, where, being…
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