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Manchester Eve. News 12 July 4/2: The New York Spirit of the Times observes —‘A more low-lived cringing cur [...] Fed on the best and deluged with champagne, he would have licked the black off Ashbury’s boots’ [...] It would be wrong to gather from this foul-mouthed nonsense that the writer has any objection to boot-licking in abstract. Manchester Eve. News 16 Feb. 4/4: The Treason-Mongers of Tipperary Tea dust, on the contrary, is a palpable take-in! Manchester Eve. News 24 Oct. 2/3: [They] had ‘tossed’ [...] to see which of them should steal a pair of clogs, and as the lot fell on Peak, Fletcher was deputed to keep ‘nix’ for the bobby. Manchester Eve. News 3 May 4/5: Come and take the ‘Doch and Dorris’ with a will. Manchester Eve. News 6 Dec. 4/2: When it was seen that his wife was in a dangerous state, the prisoner said, with infamous indifference, ‘Let the — cat do a stiff un. I can do a “twelver” for her’. Manchester Eve. News 27 Nov. 2/1: Mr Gladstone replied [...] that he was an inconceivable thickhead. Manchester Eve. News 3 May 4/5: You, my jolly tar, tip us your flipper. Manchester Eve. News 6 Dec. 4/2: When it was seen that his wife was in a dangerous state, the prisoner said, with infamous indifference, ‘Let the — cat do a stiff un. I can do a “twelver” for her’. Manchester Eve. News 22 Feb. 4/3: I may hope and pray that the civilian afterclaps of the late election may be as mild [...] in their effects upon disobedient voters as the ecclesiastical [...] penalties have been upon your truly. Manchester Eve. News 18 May 2/6: Meeting of the Dundee Domestic Servants [...] The wearing of he 'flag' gave rise to considerable discussion [...] against wearing the 'badge of servitude'. Manchester Eve. News 22 Feb. 4/3: I may hope and pray that the civilian afterclaps of the late election may be as mild [...] in their effects upon disobedient voters as the ecclesiastical [...] penalties have been upon your truly. Manchester Eve. News 14 Apr. 4/5: Despite the remonstrances of the coroner’s jury [...] Evans carried off the hempen necklace to add to his trophies. Manchester Eve. News 14 Apr. 4/5: After the execution of Mrs Cotton, the West Auckland poisoner, Calcraft informed the Durham gaol officials that she would be the last person he should ‘put a nightcap on’. Manchester Eve. News 17 May 2/4: he had been so ‘togged up’ that he thought he was a Nangle. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: I might do a bit o’ ‘ale and portering’ (working and thieving) [...] A little bit of work, hawking or otherwise, with a spice of thieving. Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: ‘Only fancy,’ laughed Mac, ’the kids took us for the “blues”’. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/2: I learned from scraps of conversation they had ‘done the boat’ (the slang term for the now abolished system of transportation) from London. Manchester Eve. News 22 Oct. 3/3: The ticket was handed up to the bench, and read as follows:– ‘Her Majesty, Queen of Camp, will hold a grand levé and grand ball masque on Wednesday, October 21st, 1874. Dancing to commence at ten o'clock; tickets 1s. 6d. each. Ices, refreshments, &c., will be provided’ . Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: [He] had thrown up ‘cross-work’ for the more lucrative profession of betting. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: The London Tavern [...] the great place of resort of ‘cross-men’ [...] and there the ’cutest of the fraternity most did congregate. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: He remembered what could be done in spite of all the ‘d’s’. Manchester Eve. News 9 June 4/5: The pair adjourned to a place of refreshment [...] for the purpose of getting ‘a drop of the mountain dew’. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: We used to drop nearly all the stuff at Bob Macfarlane’s, and a good fence he was then. Manchester Eve. News 14 Sept. 4/3: If he don’t stop trying to play roots on me, I’ll put a Mansard roof on him and make him waltz off on his eyebrow. Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: They got cut up heavily [...] Tabby won, though he’d got the gravel-rash (cut face) from the bricks. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/1: His old woman is doing time for taking in some two or three hundred watches from the ‘guns’. Manchester Eve. News 9 June 4/5: Having [...] partaken pretty freely of the ‘hard stuff,’ they [...] proceeded homeward. Manchester Eve. News 3 Nov. 4/2: They were both lushed (drunk) before they began. Manchester Eve. News 16 Oct. 4/2: They [...] might be recognised and watched by the ‘slops’. Manchester Eve. News 25 May 4/5: ‘Well! resurrection morning! [...] if I h’ain’t the first snoozer to rise.