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"And the woman who owned La Civette was crying

Four-wheeled cabs are called bounders; and a member of the Four-in-hand Club, driving to Epsom on the Derby Day, would, using fashionable phraseology, speak of it as tooling his drag down to the Derby. A vehicle, if not a drag (or dwag), is a trap, or a cask; and if the turn-out happens to be in other than a trim condition, it is pronounced at once as not down the road, unless the critic should prefer to characterize the equipage as dickey. Your City swell would say it is not up to the mark; whilst the costermonger would call it a wery snide affair. In the army a barrack or military station is known as a lobster-box; to cram for an examination is to mug-up (this same term is much in vogue among actors, who regard mugging-up as one of the fine arts of the profession)

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