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Cheltenham Chron. 27 May 2/3: If I were possessed of only the ninth part of the spirit of a man it would be imposible to avoid answering [...] If this sapient detector of fraud really thinks I did Cabbage the public money, he must allow I cut my cloth to the best advantage [...] permit me, Mr Editor, with the coolness of a Cucumber, to subscribe myself, Your humble servant, WM Hastings, Tailor. Cheltenham Chron. 27 May 2/3: If I were possessed of only the ninth part of the spirit of a man it would be imposible to avoid answering [...] If this sapient detector of fraud really thinks I did Cabbage the public money, he must allow I cut my cloth to the best advantage [...] permit me, Mr Editor, with the coolness of a Cucumber, to subscribe myself, Your humble servant, WM Hastings, Tailor. Cheltenham Chron. 2 Apr. 1/2: A pair of jack boots, oh, they bade me be cleaning, / As rough as a badger their surfaces were. Cheltenham Chron. 2 Apr. 1/2: Botheration! I never can polish these here. Cheltenham Chron. 3 Nov. 4/3: Dr Crocus is here, the celebrated Dr Crocus. Doctor Crocus has come all this way to cure you. Cheltenham Chron. 15 July 4/2: ‘You be blowed,’ said a broad faced looking gentleman [...] ‘Be blowed yourself,’ quoth one of my [...] friends. Cheltenham Chron. 4 Feb. 4/4: I took them [i.e. stolen goods] to a Swag Chovey Bloak. Cheltenham Chron. 21 Apr. 2/3: He is the greatest blunderhead in the world. Cheltenham Chron. (Gloucs.) 13 Feb. 3/4: It is no compliment to Bristol that he should have thought ‘a Scotch lick’ was enough for an inaugural speech. Cheltenham Chron. 9 Sept. 4/3: The Cotswold sheep [...] is a fine, handsome, noble-looking sheep. In old times no language could be too hard or too depreciating to be applied to him: a ‘Cotswold lion’, a ‘Cotswold jackass’ was used some twenty years ago. Cheltenham Chron. 27 July 8/3: The Agreeable Rattle. Alfred Chenery is an example to be quoted. He is six-and-twenty, slight and tolwerably good-looking [...] he will never marry; but when his ‘agreeable rattle’ days are over, will sink into a gurrulous [sic] [...] old gentleman. Cheltenham Chron. 11 June 8/4: The brethren assembled [...] many of them were resplendent in their regalia and literally 'in full feather'. Cheltenham Chron. 20 Sept. 8/2: Having recruited the inward man (you know what Hudibras says about ‘belly-timber’) off we set. Cheltenham Chron. 14 Nov. 3/3: Mistress was in awful ’sterics. I [...] gave her sal volatile. Cheltenham Chron. 3 Dec. 2/1: Come, you mustn’t sleep here [...] why don’t you go to the Casual, — that’s for fellows like you. Cheltenham Chron. 3 Dec. 2/1: The poor beings showed me sympathy; they called me ‘mate’. Cheltenham Chron. 23 May 4/4: Time was in the past, when they had monkeys allowance, more kicks than halfpence: now we live in better times. Cheltenham Chron. 1 July 2/4: . Cheltenham Chron. 13 Mar. 6/1: ‘If it is not so I will cross my breath,’ means, among boys, an oath [...] equivalent to ‘on my life!’. Cheltenham Chron. 1 Feb. 3/1: A dish of ‘bubble-and-squeak’ will use up remains of potato and green vegetable. Cheltenham Chron. 18 Jan. 10/4: A Battle Royal. One of the keepers in Bushey Park has discovered two fine bucks [...] dead [...] The battle that ended so fatally had evidently been a long and stubborn one. Cheltenham Chron. 24 Sept. 3/2: Bleeding the Bookies [...] Nine bookmakers paid [fines of] £15 between them. Cheltenham Chron. 30 Nov. 1/1: Catnach of the Seven Dials [was] the printer of sheets that were hawked and sold by ‘flying stationers’. Cheltenham Chron. 2 Nov. 2/7: [headline] In Praise of the ‘Penny Gaff’. Cheltenham Chron. 25 Oct. 6/8: [He] heard a boy screaming like blue murder. Cheltenham Chron. 25 Oct. 5/4: Mrs Ward was what was known as being ‘stale drunk’. Cheltenham Chron. 4 Jan. 5/5: The mixing up of boys, debtors, and ordinary prisoners — some of whom may be old ‘lags’ — in the same ward. Cheltenham Chron. 4 Jan. 5/5: One of the ‘trial’ men [...] was ‘Jimmy the Rumbler’, whose ‘line’ was catching ‘green ’uns’. Cheltenham Chron. 4 Jan. 5/5: One of the ‘trial’ men [...] was ‘Jimmy the Rumbler’, whose ‘line’ was catching ‘green ’uns’. Cheltenham Chron. 25 Apr. 7/6: One man told the master [...] that he’d ‘be blowed’ if he would do it.