club up their brads for a kevartern of Stark-naked in three outs.

The Sempstress and Straw Bonnet-maker are for a yard of White Tape; and 1 Sluice the ivory--Is originally derived from sluicery, and means washing, or passing over the teeth.
2 Dollop--Is a large or good quantity of any thing: the whole dollop means the whole quantity.
~256~~the Swell Covies and Out and Outers, find nothing so refreshing after a night's spree, when the victualling-office is out of order, as a little Fuller's-earth, or a dose of Daffy's; so that it may fairly be presumed it is a universal beverage--nay, so much so, that a certain gentleman of City notoriety, though he has not yet obtained a seat in St.Stephen's Chapel, with an ingenuity equal to that of the _Bug-destroyer to the King_,{1} has latterly decorated his house, not a hundred miles from Cripplegate, with the words Wine and Brandy Merchant to her Majesty, in large letters, from which circumstance his depository of the refreshing and invigorating articles of life has obtained the appellation of the Queen's Gin Shop." Bob laughed heartily at his Cousin's interpretation of Daffy's.
While Tom humm'd, in an under tone, the fag end of a song, by way of conclusion-- "Why, there's old Mother Jones, of St.Thomas's Street, If a jovial companion she chances to meet, Away to the gin-shop they fly for some max, And for it they'd pawn the last smock from their backs; For the juniper berry, It makes their hearts merry, With a hey down, down deny, Geneva's the liquor of life." By this time they were at the Globe; upon entering which, they were greeted by Mortimer and Merry well, who had arrived before them; and dinner being served almost immediately, they were as quickly seated at the table, to partake of an excellent repast.
1 It is a well-known fact, that a person of the name of Tiffin announced himself to the world under this very seductive title, which, doubtless, had the effect of bringing him considerable custom from the loyal subjects of his great patron.
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