Rules for Walking the Streets (1737) [ Places / Practices ]
… Rules for walking the Streets and other Publick Places If we walk in the Park, or any other Publick Place, with a Superior, we are … be in Company, we are to take care to place him in the Middle. The like Rule is to be observ'd to a Lady, if she be walking with Gentlemen. The Ladies are to pay the same Complement to Gentlemen, when they are the Majority of Three . If whilst we are walking, we see any Person of our Acquaintance, or their Servants pass, we are not to Bawl and Hem after them, like a …
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