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Rural Rides I 117: Lord Castlereagh [...] was accused of making a swap, as the horse-jockeys call it, of a writer-ship against a seat. It is barter, truck, change, dicker, as the Yankees call it, but as our horse-jockeys call it swap, or chop. Rural Rides (1885) I 123: The author applied to Mr. Nicholls, the name of ‘the grey-coated parson’. Rural Rides (1885) I 268: When the war was over, the jolterheads thought they would get gold back again to make all secure. Rural Rides I 117: Lord Castlereagh [...] was accused of making a swap, as the horse-jockeys call it, of a writer-ship against a seat. It is barter, truck, change, dicker, as the Yankees call it, but as our horse-jockeys call it swap, or chop. (ref. to 1783) in Rural Rides (1885) II 353: It is [...] ascribed to the army; for, when I was a recruit at Chatham barracks, in the year 1783, we had brown bread served out to us twice in the week. And for what reason God knows, we used to call it tommy. And the sergeants, when they called us out to get our bread, used to tell us to come and get our tommy. Anyone that could get white bread, called it bread; but the brown stuff that we got in lieu of our pay, was called tommy.