Sunday, 11 November 2012

12th November 1786


Damp

Three people I have been told were drinking in the Angel Bakewell one day last week when one of the company being bored and for a trifling bet offered to carry a red hot poker in his teeth as far as the market stone and back again. The bet being agreed to , the man took the poker in his teeth and performed it. The consequences were that the man was so affected that his teeth dropt out and his mouth and tongue was so scorched that he languished to the next day and expired in great agony

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