HARTING.
MUSICIANS AT A HOP, MINUS THEIR MUSIC.—A ‟ball” was lately held midway between this village and Rogate, near the New-woods, at a newly erected beerhouse called the ‟Pig and Squint,” just by which, the Railway in formation will pass from Midhurst to Petersfield. It appears that friend Boniface had assembled the meeting by way of a house warming—but from excitement, or some other unaccountable cause, the performers appeared at the scene without their instruments. This as may be expected caused considerable dismay and disappointment, and the worthy host, who calculated that amongst other matters the ‟barrel of beer” would not have proper attention paid to it, dispatched his daughter, (already prepared for the hop) in all haste to his brother Boniface, who keeps ‟The Brick and Donkey,” beerhouse, and which has also been lately erected (in a new brick yard) to give him an invite with his fiddle, and his lodgers. Now ‟John Barleycorn” was too potent a character in question to allow a moment’s delay, and consequently our worthy host of ‟The Brick and Donkey” started off in good speed with fiddle in hand, and lodgers in company, to meet the party assembled at ‟The Pig and Squint,” when the ‟light fantastic toe” was soon set in motion, to the gratification of all.