A story celebrating the marriage of a Jack of all Trades septuagenarian and his many and varied occupations.
Married, at Lowther, on the 4th Inst., Mr. Richard Clarke, to Mrs. Mary Martin, widow, of the parish of Morland. The bride has attained the age of eighty-three, and has only on eye. The bridegroom is no chicken, having seen upwards of seventy-six summers. He is also much celebrated in his neighbourhood for the universality of his genius. He began as a tailor, and quitted that occupation for the profession of a dancing-master; next he turned pig-merchant, then horse-dealer, then farrier; sixthly, he became bread baker; and now does a little in the way of preaching!
The Stamford Mercury, 19th, November, 1924 (first published in the Carlisle Patriot).