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Thomas William, 35, billiard marker, Gaulden Street, Battersea; Arthur Henry Parsons, 25, waiter, Northumberland Street, Marylebone; Joseph Stack, 52, gentleman; Harold Journeyman, 45, gentleman, High Street, Norwood; Philip Hutchinson, grocer, Bisey Road, Fulham; William Tann, piano-tuner, Standard Street, Soho; Charles Ketley, butterman, Green Street, Soho; John Randal, Frith Street, Soho; Charles Muller, 44, tailor, Marylebone Lane; Arthur Bartram, stationer, East Street Buildings; William Burton, harness maker, Blue Lion Street, Bond Street, were charged with using the 'King's Head' for the purpose of betting.
But Ketley was pluckier than his appearance indicated, and the duels between the two were a constant source of amusement in the bar of the "King's Head." "Well, Herbert, the omen wasn't altogether up to the mark this time," said Journeyman, with a malicious twinkle in his small brown eyes. "No, it was one of them unfortunate accidents."
On another occasion he shaded his eyes and peered curiously into the left-hand corner. "What are you looking at?" asked Journeyman. "At nothing that you can see," Ketley answered; and he drank his whisky as if lost in consideration of grave and difficult things.
He then entered upon the conduct of the iron and coal works at Ketley and Horsehay, where he resided for six years, removing to Coalbrookdale in 1763, to take charge of the works there, on the death of his father-in-law. By the exertions and enterprise of the Darbys, the Coalbrookdale Works had become greatly enlarged, giving remunerative employment to a large and increasing population.
He was only half in earnest, but he regretted he had not met Ketley. If he had only had a fiver on the horse 200 to 5! They met Ketley at Waterloo, and every one wanted to hear from his own lips the story of the packet of Turkish Delight. So William proposed they should all come up to the "King's Head" for a drink.
"It warn't for betting she took the plate," said Journeyman; "it was 'cause her chap said if she did he'd marry her." "I wonder you ever left the course," said Stack. "It was on account of my 'ealth. I caught a dreadful cold at Kempton, standing about in the mud. I've never quite got over that cold." "I remember," said Ketley; "you couldn't speak above a whisper for two months."
In our last volume, this was erroneously attributed to Swift. See page 370, vol. xi. As "kill him, crimp him," &c. Reynolds, of the Bank, near Ketley. M. Huber was the father of the author of a work on the economy of bees, and the grandfather of the author of a work on the economy of ants.
We have now another process to attempt, and that is to make BAR IRON with pit coal; and it is for that purpose we have made, or rather are making, alterations at Donnington Wood, Ketley, and elsewhere, which we expect to complete in the present year, but not at a less expense than twenty thousand pounds, which will be lost to us, and gained by nobody, if this tax is laid upon our coals."
His love for the beauties of nature amounted almost to a passion, and when living at The Bank, near Ketley, it was his great delight in the summer evenings to retire with his pipe to a rural seat commanding a full view of the Wrekin, the Ercall Woods, with Cader Idris and the Montgomeryshire hills in the distance, and watch the sun go down in the west in his glory.
Ketley was at the Derby; he had met him on the course, and Ketley had told him a wonderful story about a packet of Turkish Delight. The omen had come right this time, and Journeyman took a back seat. "Say what you like," said William, "it is damned strange; and if anyone did find the way of reading them omens there would be an end of us bookmakers."
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