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Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: The slang dealer likes wrapping up his meaning in a joke for his customer to unwrap, generally finding something unpleasant inside. You want your money back from him, and he offers a ‘draught’ on Aldgate pump; you confess yourself a fool for trusting him, and he blandly recommends you to go to Battersea (famous for its herb gardens) to have your ‘simples’ cut. Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: Puns produce odd new terms, as when the old hangman's machinery of cart and ladder was superseded by the ‘drop,’ and the appreciating crowd spoke of its being ‘autumn’ with the criminal, meaning the ‘fall of the leaf’. Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: The slang dealer likes wrapping up his meaning in a joke for his customer to unwrap, generally finding something unpleasant inside. You want your money back from him, and he offers a ‘draught’ on Aldgate pump; you confess yourself a fool for trusting him, and he blandly recommends you to go to Battersea (famous for its herb gardens) to have your ‘simples’ cut. Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: Slang is hard on the parson in various ways. He is known as a ‘devil-driver’ or ‘devil-scolder’. Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: Slang is hard on the parson in various ways. He is known as a ‘devil-driver’ or ‘devil-scolder’. Pembs. Herald (Wales) 8 May 4/3: There is a whole sarcastic homily implied in calling a finger-post by the wayside a ‘parson,’ in that he showeth other men the way they should go, but goeth not himself.