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Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: He said, ‘Now then, old tar, when you and I have had an up and a downer, we’ll talk about this matter,’ [...] ‘An up and a downer?’ [...] The defendant: ‘Why, I scrapt him, your worship.’ — Alderman: ‘Officer, please explain what is the meaning of scrapping him.’ — Officer: ‘He means, your worship, fighting’. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: I cut my lucky, as the blue-bottle was a comin’ up. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: The Deaf-un and me was having a drain at the Magpie and Stump in Newgate-street. Your worship knows the crib, p’rhaps. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: Now then, one two, three, and ‘down goes your apple cart.‘ — Alderman White: What does he mean [...] — The Offcer: He meant your worship that he would knock any man down who stood in his way. Era 20 Dec. 5/4: It’s five weeks [...] since auld biddy Hoolijan tuck herself off the hooks . Era 20 Dec. 5/4: He fetched me a wipe, wot knocked me down stairs . Era 21 June 8/1: ‘Here, fuddle-cap,’ he continued, giving her some brandy. Era (London) 3 May 8/1: It is certainly not he who has the soundest views on [...] the value of education, who will be most inclined to respect the birch-wielding gerund-grinder. Era (London) 30 Aug. 3/3: It required no knight of the napkin to imbue us. Era (London) 5 Jan. 12/3: Wine in Bond [...] Madeira [...] Direct London particular , first 50l to 55l. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5: Well, your worship, up come lord Bandash and says to me, says he, ‘What’s the matter?’ ‘Why,’ says I, ’ Nix my doll, my lord’. Era (London) 9 Aug. 5/2: Only one pair of handcuffs between the three. The ‘ruffles,’ however, have just been ‘walked off’. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: He said, ‘Now then, old tar, when you and I have had an up and a downer, we’ll talk about this matter,’ [...] ‘An up and a downer?’ [...] The defendant: ‘Why, I scrapt him, your worship.’ — Alderman: ‘Officer, please explain what is the meaning of scrapping him.’ — Officer: ‘He means, your worship, fighting’. Era (London) 18 Oct. 5/4: I was regularly slewed, ’cause the Deaf-un and me was having a drain at the Magpie and Stump in Newgate-street. Era (London) 20 Dec. 9/1: Having been selected by the touting fraternity, who know everything — that is, in their opinion — to carry off this stake. Era (London) 20 Dec. 9/1: Having been selected by the touting fraternity, who know everything — that is, in their opinion — to carry off this stake. Era (London) 9 Aug. 5/2: After taking ‘a hasty glass and half-a-dozen whiffs’ he discovered the bird had flown. Era (London) 5 Dec. 11/3: M’Stravick [...] caught another on his ‘domino box,’ when blood oozed out. Era 6 June 11/1: He can get along speedier to the rescue on his trotters, than all the balance of his fratenity in their 'pill-boxes'. Era (London) 21 Nov. 2/2: You thieving peep-o’-day spalpeens [...] I’ll clean your dirty muzzles with the fist I have in my hand! Era (London) 5 Dec. 11/3: Betting was brisk [...] Parker, who had also been his trainer, put all his ‘gilt’ upon him. Era (London) 16 May 10/3: . Era 26 Sept. 5/3: A new drama [...] ‘Jack Ketch, or a Leap from Tyburn tree,’ was produced. Era (London) 5 Dec. 11/3: M’Stravick, though a lesser man, was [...] ‘nutty’ upon himself. Era 6 June 11/1: He [...] next threw in a pill which made them look 'blue', by offering a 'fee' for even guineas. Era (London) 21 Nov. 2/1: ‘Thunder and ages!’ exclaimed Mick. Era (London) 5 Dec. 11/3: Carriages, coaches, tandems, gigs, and horsemen, the ‘toddlers’ being as scarce as our present commercial demands. Era (London) 28 Mar. 10/3: Newmarket [...] Snow drop (in good style) [...] Joachim (in prime twig). Era (London) 21 Nov. 2/2: Do you see the faces of those four ugly cockney blackguards glittering in the moonshine. Era (London) 27 Feb. 12/1: On Tuesday next there will be a first rate display of the fistic art [...] "Stunning Joe’ Banks, ‘Esq.’ [...] St Giles’s treasurer for the subscriptions for a belt to be presented to Tommy the Greek, the ‘St Giles’s Pet and Champion of the Roughs,’ has issued cards of invitation.