Today's extract is from 1805. Grammarians will note the confusing clause at the end of this entry. But, then, it was written about 200 years before Lynne Truss' book "Eats, Shoots & Leaves."
Obituary
Dec. 30. An Officer of the Navy, in shooting birds, at Fratton, near Portsmouth, as he inadvertently attempted to divide the briars with the butt end of the piece, being on full cock, the trigger caught a bramble, and the contents of the gun were discharged through the Lieutenant's heart, who instantly expired.
XIII, 85
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