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THE DOVER ROAD 



aloft in a place between the constellations and the 

 beasts of the field. 



There is one modern incident in connection with 

 the " Bull " at Dartford which shows how inflamed 

 were the passions of the workinfj class in favour of 

 Georcfe the Fourth's silly and indiscreet wife, and this 



THE " BULL " INX, DARTFORD. 



incident happened while the monarch was changing 

 horses here. It was a journeyman currier who showed 

 his sympathy with Queen Caroline, and he did so by 

 thrusting his head in at the carriage window, and 

 roaring in the face of startled majesty, " You are a 

 murderer ! " which can be taken neither as a compli- 

 ment nor a statement of fact — unless, indeed, we agree 

 with that mathematically inclined cynic who held that 

 a " fact " was a lie and a half. 



Pastor Moritz, in his account of a seven weeks' tour 



