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in Bristol Magpie 23 Nov. 1882 10/2: Meanwhile, a scurvey little man, ogled and smirked [...] and fain would have dallyed with mine, but John observing, I was meat for his master, drew me off, at which my wouldbe gallant made his withdrawal. Bristol Magpie 9 Nov. 10/2: An orator there is in Corsham; / I guess he can, just a few, jaw some. Bristol Magpie 7 Sept. 16/1: [T]he ‘agony-piling’ the heroine endures [...] would make harder stuff than ‘gods’ weep, or — laugh. Bristol Magpie 21 Sept. 3/2: ‘[N]or I ain’t at Lawford’s Gate [i.e. the house of correction] in the box, a bein’ six-and-eightpenny bully-ragged! ’. Bristol Magpie 7 Sept. 16/2: For some years it was a music hall frequented much by islington ‘angels’. Bristol Magpie 23 Nov. 6/1: Quite too awfully awful. Bristol Magpie 29 June 4/1: A back slum ‘pub,’ [...] to gratify the aristocratic instincts of its patrons, is dignified as a ‘wine and spirit vaults’. Bristol Magpie 23 Nov. 6/1: Sending a very plump gentleman plump into the lap of an elderly spinster who, with beaming, grateful eyes, pronounced him sweetly a ‘beast’. Bristol Magpie 14 Dec. 11/1: ‘Bedad, Freddy ye’ll have to find the tenements’. Bristol Magpie 23 Nov. 6/1: That portion of the community [...] from their understandings, coming, perhaps under the popular designation ‘beetle-crushers’. Bristol Magpie 7 Dec. 3/1: What ‘lovely woman’ unto ‘fashion’ says, is / ‘Lead on, I’'ll follow’ to L’enfer and blazes. Bristol Magpie 14 Dec. 11/1: [T]he merry mad bloods [...] felt no misgivings as to any possible consequences of their dangerous pleasantry. Bristol Magpie 12 Oct. 13/2: ‘If I carn’t go to Heaven I’ll be blowed if I’ll go anywhere else’. Bristol Magpie 17 Aug. 17/2: A line on the play-bill [...] reads thus: ‘Guests, thieves, tramps, policemen, and other questionable characters.’ [...] Rather force-ible on ‘the men in blue’ that. Bristol Magpie 29 June 4/2: Talking about the police [...] With all the money that is spent in making some of the men look ridiculous on horseback at assize times [and] in keeping half a score of others daily playing ‘bogey’ to the little tram boys [etc]. Bristol Magpie 7 Sept. 3/1: ‘Ee bin a doin’ a booze, ’ee hey’. Bristol Magpie 21 Sept. 3/2: ‘[N]or I ain’t at Lawford’s Gate [i.e. the house of correction] in the box, a bein’ six-and-eightpenny bully-ragged! ’. Bristol Magpie 29 June 4/1: What ‘buncombe’ we are expected to swallow now-a-day. Bristol Magpie 20 July 18/1: [S]moking a ‘butt’ which he had just picked up. Bristol Magpie 29 June 18/1: Away went the [cricket] ball about ther cannisters or ther shins. Bristol Magpie 3 Aug. 3/1: It cut me to the marrow, quite; / I felt my heart, it broke, / When he, my windpipe holding tight, / Gave me a arti-choke. Bristol Magpie 20 July 3/1: That was ‘Carrotty Mick’—your bob’s a case— / His snivelling's all my eye! Bristol Magpie 24 Aug. 1/2: He would keep ahead of the fair one, occasionally glancing back, until he reached the corner of the street, where he would take his stand, stare impertinently as she passed, and ‘chirrup’ after her when she had gone. Bristol Magpie 16 Nov. 10/1: We Hear [...] That there is not so much chirruping in St. Mark’s Road as formerly, the birds being scared. Bristol Magpie 29 June 7/2: can a stone-mason be said to act fair when he is chiselling? Bristol Magpie 12 Oct. 9/1: The would-be talker [...] in a Theatre, finds small chance of distinguishing himself [...] The justice meted is summary [...] even to the extent of a ‘chuck out,’ if necessary. Bristol Magpie 27 July 7/1: Mr. De Foppington was [...] vainly endeavouring to stop the flow of the ‘claret,’ which the brutal pumpkin had tapped. Bristol Magpie 13 July 3/1: cleaned out‘Have you [...] anything to offer the Court before sentence is passed?’ ‘No, your Honour [...] my lawyer took my last cent!’ . Bristol Magpie 20 July 3/1: The only change for that there piece / ’ll be from your cly to his. Bristol Magpie 21 Sept. 3/2: ‘Now you look here, young cockalorum’.