Show Good Time 200 Years Ago At the beginning of tho eighteenth century a number of rufllanly young men of the higher classescalled by Swift a race of rakes that play the devil about the town every night known as Mohocks Infested London sallying out drunk Into the streets carrying short clubs loaded with lead at both ends and perpetrating shame fill cruelties upon peaceable passersby passers-by wantonly wounding and disfiguring disfigur-ing the men and subjecting all allko to atrocious insults Lccky says that matrons Inclosed I In barrels were rolled down the steep and stony Snow hill Watchmen were unmercifully beaten and their noses were silt Conches and chairs were overturned on rubbish heaps and country coun-try gentlemen visiting the theaters hail to be accompanied by their armed re I talners as if In time of war |