The following article was posted by Michael Coomber on [KENT-ENG] mailing list and shows a wonderful way of expressing things in days gone by.
>From Public Advertiser ( London, England ), Tuesday, October 5, 1790; Issue 17550. A few days since the following shocking accident happened at Farnborough, in Kent: - As Mr. TIBBS , master of the George Inn, at that place, was taking five of his children to school at Orpington, in a post-chaise, the door accidentally flew open, and two of the children fell out, when one of the wheels went over the head of a fine boy, ( who was breeched but the day before ) and killed him almost instantly; the other escaped unhurt.
