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Bell’s Wkly Messenger 13 Oct. 485/3: The system is one of trick, venality, and delusion. [...] . But this cannot succeed. There are too many intelligent eyes fixed upon the national Drama [...] to admit of sheer impudence and (to use the phrase of such persons) gaggery upholding miserable cause without the stamp of merit. Bell’s Wkly Messenger (London) 8 Dec. 5/4: One of those disgraceful occurrences which an established church only would tolerate, viz. a knob-stick wedding. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 7 Dec. 4/4: His brother of the whip and spur had studied in a peaceable school. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: He got lagged and scragged — that’s time of day with the best ’uns — a rope for their cravat, and cotton in their ears. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 18 Oct. 2/1: That foul apostate, that nasueous slubberdegullion! Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: She vas as firm as the pump at Aldgate. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: So I fell allycholly, and I told my sorrowful sitivation to some of my old pals. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 20 Mar. 6/5: He had been a beggar all his life, or, as he termed it he was ‘an alms-asker’. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: He got lagged and scragged — that’s time of day with the best ’uns — a rope for their cravat, and cotton in their ears. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: I, like a fool that i was, told her all about my lay with Jim. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: Mary wouldn’t take a flash of lightning—port-wine negus with nutmeg, that’s the go—or, perhaps, the veather’s very cold, a little rum and cinnamon. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: She was a good girl, a very good girl [...] She made a spooney of me. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 11 Dec. 398/1: [Y]our conduct must vite there, my fine fellows—no blackguards admitted there; and not only must your conduct be vite, but your neck-handkerchief must vite too, on ball nights. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 12 Apr. 6/2: The French rogues beat the English rogues all to nothing. The cleverest trick of ring-dropping, or fobbing, sinks into insignificance before the roguery (called the Vol a l’Americaine). Bell’s Wkly Messenger 19 July 6/1: ‘I warnt drunk [...] I wos what we call stale drunk; the liquor was dying in me’. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 5 Jan. 7/1: Charge of Assault [...] The mother of the complainant was called to prove the assault. She said she ‘seed her darter screeching and hollering on her back in the court,’ and Mrs. Haliam, ‘pegging away’ her like a windmill. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 27 Sept. 1/1: Captain Reynolds had ordered up a smoking screeching hot tumbler of whiskey punch. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 27 Sept. 1/1: A shillelah in my fist, that would knock a cavalry sword to smithereens in half a shake. Bell’s Wkly Messenger (London) 21 Mar. 7/2: A rugged looking urchin [...] was charged [...] of having wantonly ill used a sheep. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 13 Nov. 6/1: Bow-Wow Soup — One day a mandarin sent him a very savoury stew [...] Anstruther gave an inquistive look [...] pointing to the stew [...] The servant [...] replied, ‘Bow, wow, wow’. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 15 Jan. 7/3: The onlooky day whin my boy-o there kem across wid his sootherin’ ways and blareyin’ thricks. Bell’s Wkly Messenger 21 Oct. 3/2: The prisoner assuring him that upon his return ‘he would find him as right as the knocker at Newgate’. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 31 Mar. 6/1: The burra beebee is the great lady — whoever is handed in to dinner by the master of the house is the burra beebee for the occasion. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 12 Dec. 1/3: We think we hear the rumblings of the coming revolution, the rattletrap jaunting-car bringing an insurrection to set down at the Castle doors. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 23 Dec. 6/2: ‘I have, however, sometimes been so throughly fagged [...] as to have fallen asleep’. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 23 Dec. 6/4: ‘Golly mighty, what ignoramus nigga you is’. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 16 Dec. 3/2: The journeymen tailors who have not the command of a shop are principally dependent upon [...] ‘sank work’. This consists of soldiers, police, Custom-house, post and mail clothing. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 22 Dec. n.p.: The City Aldermen have been out to Peck and Booze. ‘Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys’ in Bells New Wkly Messenger 9 Mar. 6/2: I may mention [...] bluey-hunting, or pilfering metal and especially lead from the tops of houses; and cat and kitten hunting, or abstracting pewter quart and pint-pots. Bell’s New Wkly Messenger 9 Mar. 6/2: The several descriptions of London thieves are [...] bouncers, or those who plunder by swaggering.