Gents Mag 1790 p.172

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	Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.172
hare   Cockermouth Sessions
	A Hare in Court ... ... On the 18th of January, while the sessions was holding at Cockermouth, a hare which had escaped her pursuers made the best of her way over Derwent Bridge, streight up the street, where, meeting with some interruption, she darted through the window into the room of the Globe-inn, where the clerk of the peace was surrounded by a crowd of his fraternity; and placing herself upon the table, among the papers and law-processes of office, squatted, without apprehending the danger of the company she was in. As soon as the consternation was over which had taken place on that occasion, poor Puss was instantly seized, and without judge or or jury inhumanly put to death, though no other crime was alleged against her except that of forcible entry. She was then committed to the custody of the cook, who roasted her without mercy; and, strange to tell! she was afterwards eaten in this Christian country, by the canibals who had butchered her, with savage triumph, and without remorse! ... ...
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