Gossip in the First Decade of Victoria's Reign, by John Ashton 30665 [Link: http://www.gutenberg.org/3/0/6/6/30665 ] [Files: 30665.txt; 30665-8.txt; 30665-h.htm] For those wishing to know: it's a collection of all sorts of stories (from the papers and elsewhere) that seldom appear in history books, but nevertheless were greatly talked about at the time. For example, there's the near punch-up after the late king's funeral, the shooting of the indestructable man, the young post-boy v. the police, etc. All the best, David England, raining and very cold