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Lloyds’ List 24 Nov. in Ware Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 183/2: ‘Last season was a bad one; there were plenty of visitors, but nearly all “nosebaggers” – people who come for the day and bring their own provisions,’ said a Southend butcher in his examination at the Chelmsford Bankruptcy Court. ‘Thiefs Intercepted Letter’ in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 104/1: Ben – You ought to be in London on the 10th of this month. The Prince of Wales will be married [...] and all the ‘lads’ expect to make a good ‘darbey’ (good haul, or robbery). Old Bill Clark expects about 24 red rags (gold watches), and old Tom and Joe expect twice as many. in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 150/2: Harriet Lane in Peoples’, 1875 Australian canned meat–because it had the appearance of chopped-up meat; and Harriet Lane was chopped up by one Wainwright. Entr’acte 8 June n.p.: The chief ‘corner’ man [...] is possessed of some humour. ‘Report of Arrest of Mr Dillon, M.P.’ in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 93/1: Kilmainham was reached a few minutes before five o’clock. There were only a few corner boys present in the neighbourhood of the prison, and there was no demonstration of any kind. Entr’acte 24 Sept. n.p.: The ballads [...] bear a more popular ring than did those which we first heard these darkies interpret. Biography of Cheap Heiress Hunters in (1909) 184/2: Well, these Tommy Rotters kid the poor judy they’re very rich, and if they’re now and never they get carefully carried (married) to her. Biography of Cheap Heiress Hunters in (1909) 64/2: Well, these Tommy Rotters kid the poor judy they’re very rich, and if they’re now and never they get carefully carried (married) to her. Referee 19 Nov. in (1909) 59/2: It will soon be a military distinction not to be a C.H. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 115/1: It can’t be denied that Booth has made a doogheno hit, and you ought to nark his bucket. Referee in (1909) 197/1: When Lantier was doing up his bundle to send to the pawnbroker’s, one intelligent pittite shouted out ‘Pin!’ Evidently that pittite knew something. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 196/2: She was as pale as death, and trembling from head to foot. He was perfectly satisfied that what she had described took place, for when she came in she was ‘all to pieces’. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 228/1: The City coppers can’t leave the poor costers alone. It riles the coppers, s’elp me bob, to see a cove trying to get an honest living. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 56/2: When your burick gets boozed, smashes the crockery, and then calls in her blooming old ma to protect her from your cruelty, that’s the time to do a guy. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 60/1: When I saw the Cabbage Theatre full I thought to myself [...]. Referee 1 Apr. 1/1: No one, not even the previously most authoritative – and most in the cart – seems at all astonished at the success of the Knight of Burley [F&H]. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 110/1: You only know me, maties, in Ditch parlours and Chapel bagatelle rooms. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 78/1: The Duke and Duchess of Teak patronized the performance of lolanthe at the Savoy Theatre on Monday last. Under the circs I am disposed to exclaim, ‘What extravagance!’. in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 79/2: Edward’s Folly Dramatic Company is reported as having climbed the golden stairs. The cash assets are alleged to have been carefully secured in a pill box. newspaper cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 97/1: Imagine a tall, gaunt, loose-jointed man, with long grizzled hair, deep-set eyes that glow like coals of living fire, high, square shoulders, a stooping, slouching gait; skin wrinkled and dirty beyond pen description; hands and feet immense, the former grimy and with protruding knuckles, the latter incased in cowhide boots with soles an inch thick and of astonishing width; clothes beside which Joseph’s coat would sink into insignificance, so covered are they with patches of divers colours – this is a South Carolina ‘cracker’. Referee 3 Nov. in (1909) 177/2: The Fisheries Exhibition is over. The lights of the moral Cremorne are out. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 98/2: John Hollingshead for some time past has been telling his patrons how they croaked in 1807. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 101/2: But it is needless to cite instances to be found by the score in warlike annals, from the ‘Gentlemen of the French guard fire first’ at Fontenoy to the well-fought field at Inkerman, when the ‘curled darlings’ approved themselves metal of the right temper. Referee 17 June 7/4: I am anxious to have a cut in and get a big advertisement for nothing [F&H]. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 106/2: When a bloke’s hard up it’s the delo diam who is his friend. When a poor girl goes wrong it is the delo diam who gives her shelter until the kid is born. Delo diams are angels on this muddy earth, and if there is a heaven delo diams will take a front seat there. press cutting in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era 110/1: The Ditch is the oldest village in London. A bloke named Shore hung out there once. His missus went wrong with a King. When the King snuffed it the dona had to walk through the streets in her nightgown. She died in a ditch did Jane. Hence the name Shoreditch. Entr’acte Apr. in (1909) 127/2: Miss Gilchrist, who has now matured into a well-formed young woman, is what I should call a vocal defaulter, her singing being ‘far gone’. Referee 15 July 7/3: While Ned from Boulogne says Oui mon brave, The Froggies must answer for Tamatave [F&H]. Entr’acte April in (1909) 143/1: The person who jumped on the communion table at St Paul’s Cathedral the other day, pulling down the crucifix, knocking over the flowers and other adornments, may be said to have had a very inexpensive ‘go in’. He had been fined £5. in Passing Eng. of the Victorian Era (1909) 228/2: Here’s a nice little story, and it’s all true, s’elp me greens.