SUICIDE AT STOCKBRIDGE.

“Measter Punch, Zur,

“Lookee here at this here handbill as I zee t’ other day in the winder of a shop at Zouthampton, and axed vor un, and got un o purpus to zend up to you. What I wants to drect your particler attention to is the N.B. Towards the bottom on un:-

PIGEON SHOOTING!

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TO BE SHOT FOR,

AT SAM SCOTTS, WHITE HART INN, STOCHBRIDGE,

On Wednesday, January 18, 1860,

A CHESTNUT GELDING,

A good Hunter and Hackney, very fast, and a capital Trapper.

By 25 Members, at £1 each; 9 Birds. 12 gauge Guns limited to 1 ounce and a half of shot, to stand at 18 yards. Guns over 12 gauge limited to 2 ounces, 21 yards.

N.B. Any one not wishing to shoot himself is at liberty to find a Substitute.

SHOOTING TO COMMENCE PUNCTIONALLY AT 12 O’CLOCK.

“Anybody not wishun to shoot his zelf is to be lowed to vind a zubstitute. Dosn’t think these there Stockbridge shooters must be a precious clumsy zart o’ chaps? I’ve a heerd o cockneys shootun theirzelves at pigeon-matches to be sure. If you know are a fellow as wants to commit zuicide and not have it vound feller de sea, you advise un to goo to that are shootun match at the White Hart. Them as be like to shoot theirzelves be as like to shoot neighbours. I wonder who them as doan’t wish to shoot theirzelves expects to git vor zubstitutes. I have a heerd that Chinamen, zome on ‘em, be willun to be hanged vor a trifle stead of other people, but I should think there warnt no sich natives as they be at Stockbridge.

“Your sarvant to command,

“Smoker.”

“Blue Boar, Jan. 1860.”

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