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The venerable Henry Purslane Chichester, Sir Alistair Chichester’s ancestor, is much remembered in Chichesterton-Upon-Hogg for having wrested Henry’s Bog from the Burlingame clan in 1427. (A diehard remnant of the Burlingames still refer to it as “Burlingame’s Bog.”) Henry’s Bog … Continue reading →

Fay Dawne Burmeister was valedictorian the year Boog Jeeters got his lacerated kidney in the game against Horne. When Boog was born, Lonnie wanted to call him Booger. Can you feature that? Booger Jeeters. Reba wouldn’t have it, said no … Continue reading →

Sir Alistair Chichester is in the habit of quaffing two pints of bitter at The Thane of Thoth every afternoon from 3 to 4 p.m., excepting Sundays. Each pint costs a quid tuppence. (Sir Alistair, of course, is indifferent to … Continue reading →

Carlis McElroy was captain of our Lady Stags softball team her senior year. She had to stop pitching when she injured her rotator cuff. Bobbi Gail thinks that’s when she got pregnant with Mardel Spelvin. Mardel’s taking classes in Kinesiology … Continue reading →

Eighteen minutes into Giles’s and Trevor’s trip for high tea with Felicity and Nigella at the Chancery Buttery near Vauxhall Mews, a lorry blocks their way for seven minutes in order to unload its bangers and kidneys at the Fox … Continue reading →

Spunk McGruder was Athletic Director when Don Bob Rooke quarterbacked us to Bi-District. The Stags had the Fearsome Foursome on the line: Chance Purvis, Boog Jeeters, Colt McGruder, and Skeeter Muncie. Not one of those boys went on to play … Continue reading →

Giles and Trevor depart the suite of rooms they share in University College at 4:03 p.m. destined for their 5-o’clock rendezvous for high tea with Felicity and Nigella 30 kilometres thence. Giles’s vintage Morgan will average 44.2 kilometres per hour … Continue reading →

Mallory and Chess Peavy had their twins, Heather and Feather, when Chess was a senior and Mallory was a sophomore. Jester and Kincaid wanted Chess to get an Associate’s in Kinesiology from Blane so he could coach at the District, … Continue reading →

Felicity and her friend Nigella depart Felicity’s family’s thirty-two-room summer house in order to meet Giles and Trevor for high tea at the Chancery Buttery near Vauxhall Mews. Their chauffeured Bentley will traverse the twenty-seven kilometres at an average rate … Continue reading →

Towne Crier Chichesterton-Upon-Hogmill URGENT BULLETIN Instances of petty theft in Chichesterton-Upon-Hogmill have been remarked upon by our readers for a second fortnight. Be so kind as to report to the Constabulary the presence of any persons of dubious aspect, howsoever … Continue reading →