Identifier: wessex00hollrich (find matches)
Title: Wessex
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Holland, Clive, 1866- Tyndale, Walter, 1855-1943
Subjects: Dorset (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Adam & Charles Black
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the tea-room was for gossip by the fine ladies andthe talk of scandal which was a great delight and sofrequent a practice over a cup of tea in those days. Some amusing and interesting descriptions of theCourt and the behaviour of the townsfolk at this timeare to be found in a diary of the period. In it we aretold that they dress out every street with labels, Godsave the King ! ; the bathing machines make it theirmotto over all their windows, and even bathers thatbelong to the royal dippers wear it in their bandeauxon their bonnets to go into the sea, and have it againin large letters round their waists to encounter thewaves. The same diary humorously describes the surpriseof George III. when, having dipped his royal personunder the water, a band of music which lay hiddenin a neighbouring bathing machine struck up Godsave the King ! A Mayor of Weymouth of this time was destined to 86 WATERSTONE HOUSE, DORSETThe house of Bathsheba Everdene in Far from the Madding Crowd ». > » »
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\ A Humorous Incident distinguish himself by a comic interlude on an im-portant occasion, as many another in his position hassimilarly done. The event in question was the pre-sentation of an address of welcome to the King.The Mayor advanced to present it, and to the open-eyed astonishment of all, instead of kneeling as he hadbeen told to do, he took the Queens hand as he mightthat of any other lady. You should have kneeled, sir, said the master ofthe ceremonies, Colonel Gwynn. Sir, I cannot, answered the poor Mayor. Everybody does so, sir, persisted the Colonel. The Mayor blushed, and exclaimed with somedistress, amidst the laughter of those in the immediateneighbourhood : Damme, sir, I have a wooden leg ! Many stories were current in those days ofhumorous incidents which occurred with regard tothe King and the Court. One of these, which hasbeen preserved, is very similar in character to thosewhich have been told of other monarchs. On one of King Georges rides into the country hepasse

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