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St James’s Gazette 7 Aug. in (1909) 187/1: It is quite credible that such a man, meeting in an omnibus an elderly gentleman of antiquated air and costume, should consider it funny to insult the ‘old put’ by pretending to be an intimate acquaintance, and accosting him with a familiar ‘How’s Maria?’. St James’s Gazette 17 Aug. in (1909) 213/1: He is a ‘sad vulgar’, as the ladies’ expression was in the days of George III; and there is something very droll about the poetical retribution he meets with. St James’s Gazette 19 Dec. 4, I: There was a great booze on board [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 4 Jan. 12: He preferred to go to choker [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 2 June n.p.: When the favourite won, the accused and his clerk, or ‘penciller’, promptly changed their clothes and decamped. St James’s Gazette 4 June n.p.: It is a dreadful thing to say, but I felt that if I didn’t utter a big swear at that moment something would happen [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 2 Feb. n.p.: The object of the Spring Show is to encourage generally the breeding of sound and shapely half-bred horses, ponies, nags, trappers, hacks, chargers, harness-horses, and hunters [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 2 May n.p.: Mr. Hugh Haliburton dilates upon the custom of ‘whipping the cat’ – i.e. working for people at their houses, as was once the wont of Scottish tailors [...] [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 15 June 13: Your deeply obliged, jeremy-diddler [F&H]. St James’s Gazette 7 Feb. 8, 5: The attendant announced that the bride and bridegroom were at the altar. ‘Oh, if that’s so,’ said the Bishop to Wesley, ‘let’s go and tie the noose’! [F&H].