THE 
 
 TRUE HISTORY 
 
 OF 
 
 TOM & JERRY 
 
 OR, 
 
 Life in London, my boys, is a round of delight, 
 
 In frolics, I keep up, both the day and the night. 
 
 With my Tom and my Jerry, I try to ''get best'' 
 
 Of the Coves in the Eastsind the Swells at the West / 
 
 Such pa/s in a lark, we the Town can defy, O ! 
 
 Then join me in chaunting our precious Trio. 
 
BILLY WATERS. 
 
 Mags came thick, this made him merry ; 
 
 Fortune changes in a crack- 
 Folks they went t' see Tom and Jerry, 
 And on Billy turned their back. 
 
 One notable effect of ' Life in London," particularly in its dramatised 
 form must be recorded. It broke the heart of poor Billy Waters, the one- 
 legged musical negro, who died in St. Giles's workhouse, whispering with 
 his ebbing breath, ajnild anathema, which sounded very much like ; "Cuss 
 him. dam Tom mee Tom mee Jerry ! 
 
 Poor Billy endeavoured, up to the period of his last illness, to obtain for a 
 wife and two children what he termed, "An honest living by scraping de 
 cat-gut ! " by which he originally collected considerable sums of money at 
 the West-end of the town, where his ribbon-decked cocked hat and feathers, 
 with the grin on his countenance, and sudden turn and kick out of his 
 wooden limb, and other antics and efforts to please, excited much mirth and 
 attention, and were well rewarded from the pockets of John Bull. 
 
THE 
 
 True History 
 
 OF 
 
 TOM AND JERRY; 
 
 OR, 
 
 The Day and Night Scenes , 
 
 OF 
 
 LIFE IN LONDON 
 
 From the START to the FINISH ! 
 
 With a Key to the Persons and Places, 
 
 Together with a Vocabulary and Glossary 
 
 OF THE 
 
 Flash and Slang Terms, 
 occuring in the course of the work. 
 
 BY 
 
 CHARLES HINDLEY, 
 
 Editor of " Tlte Old Book Collector's Miscellany ; or, a Collection of Readable Repriuts 
 
 of Literary R arities" '' Works offohn Taylor the Water Poet," " The Roxburghe 
 
 Ballads" " The History of the Catnach Press" " The Curiosities of 
 
 Street Literature," " The Book of Ready Made Speeches" 
 
 " Life and Times of fames Catnach, late of tlte 
 
 Seven Dials, Ballad Monger," " Tavern 
 
 Anecdotes and Sayings,' etc. 
 
 CHARLES HINDLEY, 41, Booksellers' Row, St. Clement Danes, 
 Strand, W.C, 
 
LOAN STACK 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Nothing succeeds like success" or '* Fails like failure." 
 
 Prince Talleyrand cum Baron Nicholson 
 
 HAT Pierce Egan's Life in London, or Tom and 
 Jerry, was a success, we have plenty of printed 
 evidence and ' hearsay ' ! to prove. And we also 
 know beyond the shadow of a doubt, that the news of its 
 metropolitan fame went forth with almost telegraphic speed 
 throughout the provinces : From John o'Groat's House to the 
 Land's End ! From Dan to Beersheba ! and back again ! 
 With Life in London, its language became the language of the 
 day; drawing-rooms were turned into chaffing cribs ^ and rank 
 and beauty learned to patter flash ad nauseam. 
 
 234 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The original work went through several editions in a very 
 short time, and the plates, by the Brothers Cruikshank, were 
 considered so full of amusement that they were transferred to 
 a variety of articles without any loss of time. The Lady taking 
 her gutipmuder was enabled to amuse her visitors with the 
 adventures of Tojfi and yerry on her highly-finished tea-tray. 
 The lovers of Irish Blackguard experienced a double zest in 
 taking a pinch from a box, the lid of which exhibited the 
 laughable phiz of the eccentric Bob Logic. The country folks 
 were delighted with the handkerchief which displayed Tom 
 getting the best of a Charley, and Dusty Bob and Black Sal 
 " all^happiness ! " The Female of Quality felt interested with 
 the lively scene of the light fantastic toe at Almack's, 
 when playing with her elegant fan ; and the Connoisseur^ 
 with a smile>f satisfaction on his countenance, contemplated 
 his [screen, on which were displayed the motley groups 
 of high and low characters continually on the move in the 
 metropolis. 
 
 Everybody talked of Tom and Jerry, and crowds rushed to 
 the theatres where the uproarious adventures of these popular 
 personages were represented in a dramatic form. Mr. W. T. 
 Moncrieff's adaptation brought out at the Adelphi Theatre, 
 November 26th, 182 1 : which, ^^by-the way," was by far the best 
 of the whole bunch I ran uninterruptedly through two seasons. 
 It then appeared in rapid succession at the Theatres all over 
 England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales ; likewise in most of the 
 United States of America, the West Indies, &c. 
 
 But although Life in London, or, Tom and Jerry did make 
 our grandfathers so very very ! merry in the first quarter of 
 the Nineteenth Century, we are constrained to admit ; that 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 it is a terrible dull and tedious work to read through in the 
 present day, and it is on that very account, that we here place 
 before our readers, what we are pleased to term The True 
 History of Tom and Jerry ; for the work has a history of its 
 own, and to exemplify the fact, we have in the first place, made 
 numerous selections from the original work, then given the 
 principal scenes of Moncrieff's dramatic version of the same, 
 the two concluding chapters of Pierce Egan's continuation of 
 his Life in London which he entitles The Finish to tbe 
 Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their Pursuits 
 through Life In and Out of London."*^ Together with a 
 " Key to Persons and Places, and an Etymological and 
 Critical Vocabulary and Glossary of Flash and Slang Terms 
 
 * Books published by G. Virtue, Ivy-lane, Paternoster-row : 
 
 TDOXIANA ; or, Sketches of Ancient and Modem Pugilism ; including 
 ^ every Exploit from the Days of Figg and Broughton to the present year (1829) ; 
 with Biographical Memoirs of all the Boxers, particulars of their age, weight, style of 
 fighting, &c. ; and interspersed with a variety of Sporting Anecdotes, never before pub- 
 lished. By PIERCE EGAN. 
 
 Also in royal 8vo. price x i6s., embellished with 36 beautifully coloured, character- 
 istic plates and woodcuts, from scenes in real life, by I. R. and G. Cruikshank. 
 
 A New Edition of Life in London ; or, the Day and Night Scenes of 
 Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant Friend, Corinthian Tom, in their Rambles and 
 Sprees through the Metropolis. By Pierce Egan. 
 
 Also, just published, uniform with the above, price \ i6s., embellished with 36 richly 
 coloured scenes from real life, and spirited wood cuts, by R. Cruikshank. 
 
 " Begar here's Monsieur Tonson come again." 
 
 Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, 
 in their Pursuits through Life In and Out of London. Being the Second Part, or Con- 
 tinuation of ' Life in London,' calculated to attract the Corinthian, entertain the Sports- 
 man, relieve the cares of the Merchant, a specific against Ennui, delight the Country 
 Folks, please Everybody, and * No Mistake.' 
 
 Also, by the same Author, and uniform with the above. 
 
 The Life of an Actor, Peregrine Proteus. Illustrated by Twenty- 
 seven coloured Scenes, representing the Vicissitudes of the Stage ; and nine beautiful 
 wood cuts. By Pierce Egan, Author of ' Life in London,' * Tom and Jerry,' &c. Price 
 -1 IS. in boards ; or in nuie parts, at 2s. 6d. each. 
 
 "The present work is one of the best exemplifications of Mr. Egan's peculiar talents. 
 It is impossible for us to do justice to the spirit of the designs, many of which would not 
 discredit the pencil of Hogarth." i^(i7M/j/ Critical Gazette. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 occurring in the course ot this work," as at once giving an 
 epitome of the whole : and to our mind, sufficient to be known 
 of Pierce Egan's once popular work. To which we have 
 added such historic facts and scraps of information that have 
 come to hand during our researches in connection with the 
 Rise and Progress Decline and Fall of the Book and its 
 Story. The present generation will find in some of the scenes 
 depicted in such glowing colours, many of the fashions, man- 
 ners and customs, which prevailed in the reign of King 
 George the Fourth, together with certain landmarks of the 
 past, which no one need regret leaving far behind, and ought 
 to give every encouragement to those who live under the rule 
 of Queen Victoria to maintain a firm faith in the social progress 
 of the age. 
 
 The first Chapter of Life in London, commences with 
 what the author terms An Invocation, in which, 2S.\.tr iiivokifig I 
 " the pleasing, grateful, inspiring, nay, golden advantages 
 resulting from the smiles of that supreme goddess of the gods, 
 FAME !" which he adds is the " flattering unction " that all 
 authors sigh to be anointed with." He then in very " merry- 
 go-round here we go round" sort of a way calls to his aid 
 many of the past, and, also then, living authors, artists, pub- 
 lishers, and public characters of the day *' to enrich his judg- 
 ment guide his pen inspire him with confidence and in 
 other ways assist him in the arduous task he has undertaken." 
 And thus he * invokes' Laurence Sterne divine and humourist 
 -(1713-68): 
 
 "It is to thee, Sterne, I first humbly bend my knee, and solicit thy 
 most powerful aid. If thou didst not use up all thy stock of Sensibility 
 before thou wert called away to enjoy the reward of thy exertions in the 
 
INTRODUCTION. v. 
 
 bowers of Elysium, pray tell me where thou didst deposit that most precious 
 bottle, that I may with an eagerness unexampled, uncork its treasures and 
 apply every drop after thy rich felicity : I have great need of it. And 
 Fielding, too, thou true delineator of Human Nature, if only a small 
 remnant of thy Mantle has been left behind, let me but know it, that I 
 may ransack every piece -broker's house in the kingdom, till I become the 
 master of such an invaluable stimulus to exertion. And, although another 
 Sophia Western, perhaps, is not to be met with m the walks of the pre- 
 sent day, if it were my precise object, yet, let me but produce some simi- 
 larity towards the double of a Tom Jones or a Booth, and the highest 
 pinnacle of my ambition is attained. Smollett, thy touching heartfdt 
 qualities break in upon me so penetratingly, that I must also invoke thy 
 friendly shrine. And if a Rory Random or a Lieutenant Bowling should 
 ever cross my path, instruct me to portray their noble traits with all that 
 richness of colouring, and peculiar happiness of style, that once embellished 
 thy truly characteristic pen. 
 
 "Advance, also the Metropolitan Heroes of Literary Renown, whether 
 of Genius great, either of romantic style, or of Poetry exquisite, of Don 
 Juan or Lalla Kookh quality, it matters not, if generosity lie within 
 thine inkstands, and ye put forth your good wishes for my success ; show 
 me your passports to excellence, and put me in the right road, that I 
 may ultimately obtain your proud signatures and arrive safe at the end of 
 my journey. 
 
 "Reviews, those terrific Censors of the timid writer, and arbiters of 
 the press, whether Quarterly,* or at Edinburgh, t you who apply the 
 knife^ bear it in mind that Van Butchell| advertises to perform cures with- 
 
 *Quarterly Review, the organ of the Tory party, first appeared in Feb- 
 ruary, 1809, under the editorship of William Gifford, the celebrated translator of 
 '* Juvenal." He died 31 December, 1826. 
 
 fEdinburgh Review was founded October, 1802, by Francis Jeffrey, 
 Scotch lawyer, critic, and politician, Francis Horner, Brougham, Rev. Sidney Smith, 
 and other Whigs. 
 
 :J:Fistul3e and Piles. Mr. Van Butchell, Surgeon Accoucheur No. 2, 
 Half Moon Street, Piccadilly, having, without cutting or confinement, in the short space of 
 three weeks, cured me of the above-named complaints (under which I had laboured for 
 nearly four years). I am prompted by gratitude to him publicly to state, that I had pre- 
 viously consulted several Surgeons, who pronounced my cure impossible, without sub- 
 
 ii. 
 
VI. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 out cuilinq ; and that Abernethy* is himself alone ! and also remember, 
 thou jrt'^^jof the quill, that many an unfortunate /i';;w who has been 'damned 
 to everlasting Fame ' and disposed of in a Jef, in thy most omnipotent 
 pages ; yet has, from the resuscitating glossy aid of Messrs. Day & Martin, 
 become a shining Literary Character in PaternosLer Row, and formed one of 
 the real Portraits of Life in London. 
 
 '* Come forth, my Mag of BLACKWOODf ; thee, too, I must invoke ! thou 
 chiel of Satire, whose lively sallies and * laughing-in-the-sleeve greatness ' 
 that would have paralysed the pencil of a Hogarth, or struck dumb the 
 piquant ridicule of a CHURCHILL, if the grim King of Terrors had not 
 deprived us of their talents ; I challenge thee to the scratch ! * Tis One 
 OF the Fancy calls ! But, from thy Iamb-like qualities and //ajyi// artillery, 
 it must only be a private set-to with the gloves. My hand grapples with you 
 in friendship it possesses not weight enough to combat with thee, although 
 X\\e pluck, perhaps, attached to it may be always gay. Be it remembered, 
 that Blackwood is always in training he hits so very hard and his 
 Backers are likewise so numerous amongst the Greeks, Latins, Hebrews, 
 and Classics, that it would be two to one against an open contest : therefore, 
 good Mr. Blackwood, bejust, nay, be more, 'be merciful. It is doubly bless'd' ; 
 and you know Blacky, ' it blesseth him that gives and him that takes.'' Then 
 floor me not ; but instead : 
 
 Shoot thine arrow o'er thy house, 
 And do not wound thy brother ; 
 
 but whisper to the Pack, and particularly to the tc/^///-?;'-/^, Old Christopher 
 North, that * 'Tis I ' {yo\xx flash- y friend of the South). But let me entreat 
 of you Mr. Blackwood, to bottle-off' a. itw of thy little mastery touches (as full 
 of fire as thy famed whisky), and send them to me with all the speed of the 
 mail, lest my stock ol spirits should be exhausted, and that Life IN London 
 
 mitting to the painful operation of cutting, to which dangerous experiment I had always 
 been averse, and therefore despaired of ever regaining my health, till, on applying to Mr. 
 Van Butcliell, to whom I was strongly recommended, he, in the short space above-men- 
 tioned, realized his assurances by performing a perfect cure. 
 
 Newhaven, Sussex. THOMAS EAGLES, Butcher & Salesman. 
 
 *John Abernethy, Surgeon and Physiologist, 1764 1831. 
 
 t William Blackwood, Scotch bookseller, born 1776; established 
 " IJlackwood's Magazine," 1817, died 1834. 
 
INTRODUCTION. VII. 
 
 may be enriched with the fine colouring of a Meg Merrilees^ if it be only in 
 perspective." 
 
 *' And Mr. Colburn (thou indefatigable promoter of literature), thy 
 assistance I most humbly crave ! indeed, I feel assured that thy spirited 
 and liberal disposition will not permit thee to omit informing those dashing 
 belles and beaux, whose morning lounge gives thy repository of the mind an 
 air of fashion, that Life in London is worthy of perusal. 
 ******** 
 
 "But thou, O Murray ! whose classic front defies, with terrific awe, ill- 
 starred, pale, wan, and shabbily -c\z.(S. Genius from approaching thy splendid 
 threshold, retreat a little from thy rigid reserve, and for once open thy doors, 
 and take the unsophisticated Jerry Hawthorn by the hand ; and although 
 not a Childe Harold in birth, a Corsair bold, or a Hardy Vaux, 
 wretched exile ; yet let me solicit thee to introduce him to thy numerous 
 acquaintance, that, having once obtained thy smiling sanction, Jerry may 
 not only have the honour of being allowed to call again, but to offer his 
 servioes throughout thy extended circle. Grant me but this and whether in 
 simple quires, in humble boards, or in Russia, triumphantly gilt, so that thou 
 promote my fame, my gratitude attends thee, and values not the mode of thy 
 favours." 
 
 " Christie, I am sure thy goodness will not refuse me the loan of thy 
 erudite hammer, if not to knock down, yet to dispose of every coarse and 
 offensive article ; nay more, let them not be numbered in the catalogue of my 
 offences." 
 
 ** O Shaughnessy, fashion me into thy fine alittudes and guard, to 
 protect me from assaults in all the hair-breath escapes I may have to 
 encounter in my day and midnight rambles. And thou, O mighty and power- 
 ful champion, Cribb, admired hero of the stage, teach me to make a hit of so 
 Kean a quality, that it may not only tell, but be long remembered in the 
 Metropolis. And Paternoster-row triumpet forth its praise and excellence 
 throughout the most distant provinces." 
 
 "AcKERMAN, if ever thou didst value the Tour of Dr. Syntax, I call 
 upon thee now to lend thy friendly assistance and protection to Corinthian 
 Tom and his rustic protege poor Jerry. Present a copy of their Sprees 
 and Rambles to the leared Doctor, and his ' Picturesque ' brain will be all 
 
 ii. 2 
 
Vlll. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 on fire for another tour, from the new scenes it will develop to his unbounded 
 thirst for enterprise and knowledge." 
 
 "And thou, too, HONE, thou king of parodists ! turn not a deaf ear to my 
 request, but condescendingly grant the petition of your most humble suitor. 
 In my diversity of research, teach me ' how to tell my story,' that I may not 
 only woo the public with success and fame, but produce that fine edge in 
 sharpening up my ideas, yet, withal so smooth and oily^ that instead of 
 wounding characters, I may merely tickle them and create a smile ! " 
 
 * Trefublingly alive! nay, heavily oppressed with agitation and fear, I now 
 intrude myself into thy presence, thou renowned hero of the police, 
 TowNSHEND. Do not frown upon me, but stretch out thine hand to my 
 assistance, thou bashaw of the prigs and ail-but beak ! The satellite of kings 
 and princes, protector of the nobility, and one of the safe guards of the 
 Metropolis. Listen to my application, I entreat thee, * my knowing one,' 
 and for once let me take 2ipeep into thy hiden invaluable secrets. It is only 
 a glance at thy reader* that I request : 
 
 Wherein of hundreds topfd^ thousands lagg'd ; 
 And of the innumerable teazings thou has book'd. 
 
 thy ' Life in London,' alone, is a history of such magnitude, that, if once 
 developed, the ' Adventures of Robinson Crusoe ' must be forgotten. O 
 teach me, Townsey, to be as dotvu in my portraits as thou art in giving all 
 the light and shade of criminality to the nightly mysteries of the wary Fence 
 when pressing for a conviction ; and likewise, to keep as sharp a look out 
 after characters in the ball-room of the Corinthians as thy penetrating eyes 
 scour the abodes of the great when ' at home ' to make all right. I ask no 
 more than : 
 
 Sit mihi fas audita loqui ; sit numine vestro 
 Pandere res altS terra et caligine mersas." 
 
 "Pocket-book. Townsend's first introduction to the police, it seems, was owing to his 
 knowledge of the numerous persons hanged, transported, &c. ; he having kept a regular 
 journal to that efifect. This calender of offences gave him a great superiority over his 
 fellows, 
 
INTRODUCTION. ix. 
 
 Pierce Egan THE AUTHOR Then more particularly 
 appeals to the Brothers R. and G. Cruikshank and to 
 HIMSELF ! ! ! as BOXIANA, thus : 
 
 " In all your varied portraiture of the interesting scenes of Life, let me 
 invoke thy superior talents, Bob and George Cruikshank (thou Gillray* 
 of the day, and of Don Saltero\ greatness), to my anxious aid. Indeed, I 
 have need of all your illustrative touches ; and may we be hand-and-glove 
 together in depicting the richness of nature, which so wantonly, at times, 
 plays off her freaks upon half-famished bone -rakers and cinder sifters round 
 the dust hill, that we may be found, en passant, so identified with the scene 
 in question, as almost to form a part of the group. May you also, Bob and 
 George, grapple with Hogarthian energy, in displaying tout a la monde the 
 sublime and finished part of creation, whether screwed up to a semi-tone of 
 ART, or in nobly delineating, what must always be a welcome visitor at 
 every residence, and likewise an admired portrait over all the chimney-pieces 
 in the kingdom a Perfect Gentleman. But, before I dismiss you to 
 your studies, bear it in remembrance, * nothing to extenuate, or set down 
 aught in malice ;' yet be tremblingly alive to the shrug of the fastidious 
 critic, who might, in his sneer, remark, that CARICATURE would be as much 
 out of time and place in holding up to ridicule the interior of the religious 
 good man's closet, as it is animatedly required in giving all the rusticity and 
 fun incident to the humours of a country life." 
 
 "And, thou, O BOXIANA! my dearest friend and well-wisher, thou 
 beloved companion of all my hours, thou ' note book ' of my MiND, and 
 'pen-and-ink remembrancer' of my passing scenes, whether in splendid 
 palaces, lost in admiration over the fascinating works of art, or in diving into 
 the humble cellar, passing an hour with some of mankind's worthiest 
 children, poor, but contented and happy, be thou my guide and assistant ! 
 
 *James Gillray, the famous caricaturist, 1785-1815. 
 
 tin Cheyne walk, Chelsea, was the museum and cofifee house of Don Saltero, renowned 
 in the swimming exploits of Dr. Franklin. The landlord, James Salter, was a noted 
 barber, who made a collection of natural curiosities, which acquired him the name (pro- 
 bably first given him by Steele,) of Don Saltero. .S"^^ Tatler, Nos. 34, 195 and 226. 
 The quiet tavern remains, but the museum was dispersed by auction about the year 1807. 
 Another wonder was the Old Chelsea Bun-house, which possessed a sort of rival museuju 
 to Don Sallero's. It was taken down in iZi^.John Tiinbs Curiosities of London. 
 
X. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Do not desert me, at peep d' day, when drowsy Watchmen quit their posts, 
 and coffee-shops vomit forth their snoozing customers those out-casts of 
 society to whom a table is a luxury to rest their thoughtless heads upon, 
 and whose : 
 
 Dry desert of a leather pocket book does not contain 
 A solitary farthing ! 
 
 Be also at my elbow, upon the strut in Hyde Park, on Sunday's stare, when 
 Sol's bright rays over Fashion s splendid scene gives such a brilliancy of 
 appearance. And be thou near to me, should midnight Covent Garden rows 
 claim my attention, when noisy rattles collect together the dissipated ramblers 
 touched with the potent juice of Bacchus, and entangled with hoarse Cyprians 
 in the last stage of existence, till dragged to the watch-house, where the 
 black hole gives a litnit to their depravity of exclamation. In this respect, 
 BOXIANA, let thine ear be as nice as Spagnioletti's ; anxious, like this 
 great master of the Cremona, to give all the force and beauty of composition, 
 but carefully to avoid a note being out of tune. Then, for once, let me 
 entreat of thee, in soliciting thy assistance, that thou wilt take off Xh^ gloves, 
 quit the prize ring, put down thy steamer, and for awhile dispense with thy 
 Daffy, but, above all, stear clear from the slang* except, indeed, where the 
 instances decidedly call it forth, in order to produce an effect, and emphasis 
 of character. Then, fare thee well ? " 
 
 Vive vale si quid novisti rectius istis, 
 
 Candidus imperti ; si non, his utere mecum. Horace. 
 
 " Farewell and be happy if you know of any precepts better than these, 
 be so candid as to communicate them, if not, partake of these with me." 
 
 *' If a better system's thine. 
 
 Impart it freely, or make use of mine." 
 
 * This is certainly good and correct advice, but, perhaps the metaphor might have 
 proved rather more illustrative, if the old adage had been quoted, that, " when at Rome 
 do as Rome does !' 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Early in the career of the puhHcation of Life in London, 
 there seems to have been some adverse criticisms by at least a 
 section of the Press on the slang of the Author ; and the some- 
 what highly coloured and spicey Plates of the Brothers Cruik- 
 shank, as in Chapter VI., page 84, Part III., there is the fol- 
 lowing apology, or, explanation printed as a foot-note thus : 
 
 "I am aware that some of my readers of a higher class of society, may 
 feel, or seem to think, that I have introduced a little too much of the slaiig ; 
 but I am anxious to render myself perfectly intelligible to all parties. Half 
 the world are up to it ; and it is my intention to make the other half donvn to 
 it. Life in London demands this sort of demonstration. A kind of 
 frt!/ phraseology is current from one end of the Metropolis to the other: 
 indeed, even in the time of Lord Chesterfield, he complained of it. In 
 some females of the highest rank, it is as strongly marked, as in dingy 
 draggled-tail Sall, who is compelled to dispose of a few sprats to turn an 
 honest penny : and while the latter, in smacking her lips, talks of her prime 
 jackey, an out-and-out concern, a bit of good truths &c., the former, in her 
 dislikes, tossing her head, observes, it was shocking, quite a bore, beastly, 
 stuff, &c. The Duchess, at an Opera, informs the Countess of a * row ' 
 which occurred on the last evening with as much sang-froid, as Carrotty 
 Poll mentions to a Costardnionger the lark she was engaged in, at a gin- 
 spinner's, and, in being turned out of the/^;/j', got her ogles taken measure 
 of for z. suit of mourning. Therefore, some allowance must be made for an 
 author who is compelled to write under a subdued tone of expression in 
 order to keep his promise made to the public in the Prospectus issued by 
 him prior to the publication of the work. In fact in many instances, the 
 language of real Life is so very strong, coarse, and even disgusting, that, in 
 consequence of keeping the above object in view, the points of many a rich 
 scene are in great danger of being nearly frittered away ; nay, of being almost 
 reduced to tameness and insipidity. My ingenious friends, Robert and 
 George Cruikshank, whose talents in representing "the living manners 
 as they rise " stand unrivalled in this peculiar line, feel as strongly impressed 
 with the value of delicacy as I do. But if some of the plates should appear 
 rather warm, the purchaser of ' Life in London ' may feel assured, that 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 nothing is added to them tending to excite, but, on the contrary, they have 
 most anxiously, on all occasions, given the preference rather to 'extenuate'' 
 than to * set down aught in malice.' All the Plates are the exact represen- 
 tations, as they occurred of the various classes of society." 
 
 The Prospectus alluded to at page xi., was after the following form. 
 " The grand object of this Work is an attempt to protray what is termed 
 ' Seeixg Life ' in all its various bearings upon Society ; from the high 
 mettled Corinthian of St. James' swaddled in luxury, down to the needy 
 Flue-Faker of Wapping, horn without a shirt, and destitute of a bit of scran 
 to allay his piteous cravings. ' Life in London ' then, is the sport in 
 view ; and provided the Chase is turned to good account. ' Seeing Life ' 
 will be found to have its advantages. No leaning upon the elbows is neces- 
 sary to imagine scenes, after the manner of the * Mysteries of Udolpho,' 
 neither has it been deemed expedient to have a fairy stationed upon a Lake, 
 during the thunder and lightning of some dreadful night, in order to work 
 up the mind of the Writer to depict what he has seen, with a touch of the 
 terrific. 
 
 "The Designs have been sketched, as they occurred, and the Artists, in 
 conjunction with the Writer, have booked the * Glowing Scene, fraught 
 with fun, gaiety, style, anecdote, and character, ' at the moment it presented 
 itself, and which, if once lost sight of, perhaps, could never have been 
 retraced; instead of trusting to their recollection at an after period, which has 
 too often been the cause of giving a sort of insipidity and dulness, character- 
 izing 'still' instead of the fire and animation that hovers over ^ ReaV 
 LIFE. 
 
 " It will, also, be found that 'Jerry' had higher objects in view, than 
 breaking a Watchman' s lantern, and agitating a tinkler to queer the Roosters, 
 or, that his energies and talents existed only in a Row. It is not necessary, 
 however, to dilate on the merits of a Work that affords such an inexhaustible 
 scope, as * Life in London ; ' neither, perhaps, is it too much to conclude, 
 that It will be a production, at which the Grave may smile, the Gay feel 
 
INTRODUCTION. Xlll. 
 
 delight, the Comical laugh heartily, and the Pathetic have occasion for a 
 wipe. The Modest it is trusted, will not have occasion to turn aside with 
 disgust, nor the Moralist to shut the book offended. The Corinthians 
 likewise, will have no occasion to be ashamed to acknowledge ' Tom ' as 
 one of their party ; the Universities not the slightest complaint to expel, 
 or even rusticate ' Bob Logic,' nor the large Family of the Hawthorns 
 to disownpoor Jerry, for his Sprees and Rambles in the Metropolis." 
 
 During the periodic publication of Life in London it was 
 generally supposed that the character-parts ! of Tom, Jerry 
 and Logic, were portraits of particular individuals, and there 
 was much speculation and ink-slinging in respect to " WJw is 
 WhoV In the House of Lords it was whispered that the 
 gallant and daring Tom represented his Grace the Duke of 
 Wellington ; Jerry, his Grace the Duke of Buckingham ; and 
 Logic, no less a personage than the Lord Chancellor. In the 
 House of Commons it was said that Tom was intended for that 
 worthy legal bibliophile, Mr. Butterworth, the pious member for 
 Coventry ; that Mr. Martin of Galway, pleaded guilty to Jerry ; 
 and the acute and knowing Mr. Hume sat for the all-awake leary 
 Logic. On the other hand it was positively asserted at the 
 West-end that Tom type-ified the elegant and spirited Colonel 
 Berkeley ; that the unsophisticated hopeful sprig of rurality, 
 Jerry, was drawn, ad vivuniy from Mr. Pea-Green Hayne,"* 
 while Logic absolutely personated that notorious modern Greek 
 scholar, the learned, larking, laconic. Parson Colton.\ 
 
 * Pea-Green Hayne. 6"^^ page 195. 
 
 t Parson Colton : Rev. Caleb C. Colton, A.M., eccentric clergyman ; 
 published " Lacon ; or. Many Things in Few Words ; addressed to Those Who Think." 
 1820-25. Died by suicide 29th April, 1832. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In the City, per contra, it was currently reported on ''Change 
 that Tom, from his love of fun, and knowledge of good living, 
 was the locum tenens of that great and learned man, and most 
 facetious Banking Baronet, Sir William more succinctly and 
 familiarly Billy Curtis, of the " three J^.'s" notoriety ; * that 
 Jerry was the picture of Mr. Treble^ X Sheriff Parkins; and 
 that Logic was an outline of Mr. Alderman Wood. But, Mr. 
 W. T. Moncrieff states that he can, however, safely assert that 
 all these suppositions are totally unfounded, as the characters of 
 Tom, Jerry and Logic, were autobiographical sketches of the 
 artists to whom they severally originally owe their being. The 
 talented, spirited George Cruikshank was himself, in all the 
 better points, the Tom of the Corinthian Order; he is so 
 admirably delineated ; his very clever brother Isaac Robert, 
 then perhaps less experienced, condescended to pass for Jerry, 
 and the downey Pierce Egan " ' None but himself can be his 
 parallel 't was his own Logic the Oxonian in green specs 
 gig-lamps ! " Mr. Moncrieff continues " they having triajimcta 
 in uno produced the admirable foundation of this Piece.:}: May 
 they speedily furnish the public with some more of their larks^ 
 sprees and rambles X\iQ world will thank them for the gift." 
 
 It is now a matter of history that the Brothers Cruikshank, 
 first designed and engraved the Plates for the original Edition 
 
 2 R's. Sir William Curtis being asked at a City Banquet 
 " I will give you Gemmen the three R's, that's Reading! Riting !! 
 
 * The Three 
 
 to give a toast said 
 and Rithmetic !!!' 
 
 t None but himself can be his parallel. Louis Theobald's 
 Tke Double Falsehood, Act iii. Sc. 2. 
 
 " Quaeris Alcidae parem? 
 Nemo est nisi ipse." 
 
 Seneca, Hercules Fiirens, Act. i., Sc. i. 
 
 % This Piece that is to say the Adelpbi Dramatic Version, as written, 
 printed, and publshed by Mr. W. T. Moncrieff, at No. 104, Drury Lane. 1824. 
 
INTRODUCTION. XV. 
 
 of Life in London, and, then, Pierce Egan wrote the letter- 
 press up to them from month to month to the completion of 
 the work in July, 182 1. 
 
 To this order of things there was, however, one exception, 
 namely in December, 1820, "'twas Christmas, merry Christ- 
 mas time, when ' Man being reasonable, must get drunk,' " and 
 Pierce Egan, admitted that he got too much Daffy aboard the 
 over night, and that on waking up late the next morning he 
 found his pocket-book containing his Notes! i.e., "copy" 
 absent without leave. He therefore published at page 275 
 as follow : 
 
 TO THE SUBSCRIBERS TO "LIFE IN LONDON.' 
 
 THE AUTHOR IN DISTRESS 
 
 He jests at a " Lark " that never felt a scratch ! 
 
 My numerous and dearest Friends : 
 
 Of necessity, I am compelled to state to you, that having accepted an 
 invitation from Bob Logic, about three weeks since, to spend an evening 
 with him and a few of his Swell Pals, at the Albany, I pleaded business, and 
 that the ^^ First of the Month'''' must come. **I know it," replied Bob, 
 ** but it shall be a sober set-out : Pierce, you shall tipple as you like." In 
 consequence of Bo^'' s plausibility, I was gammoned to be one of the squad. 
 Mixed liquors and steamers were the order of the darkey. But he praised so 
 highly a cargo of daffy, which he had just received from the NoNPAREiLf 
 
 * Not out o^wind, nor beat to a stand-still; but sorry that I am compelled to forfeit 
 on the ist of January, 1821, being out oi condition to appear bang-up at the scratch I 
 
 tjack Randall, the Nonpareil, of the Ring, was then keepmg the 
 Hole-in-the-Wall, in Chancery Lane. See Randall, page 199. 
 
XVI. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 that Daffy and water was the preferred suit. After a glass or two had 
 been sluiced over the ivories of the party, which made some of them begin 
 loudly to chaff. Bob gave the wirtk to his slavey, observing that more hot 
 water was wanted. A large kettle, boiling at the spout, was speedily intro- 
 duced, but instead of water, read boiling Daffy. The assumed gravity of 
 Bob's mug upon playing off this trick was quite a treat, but I am happy to 
 say Crooky booked^ it. '* Come, gents," said Bob, " please yourselves, here 
 is plenty of water, now mix away." It had the desired effect. The glass 
 was pushed about so quickly; that the "First of the Month" was soon 
 forgotten, and we kfept it up till very long after the Regulars had been 
 /r/(W up in their fl'rt*^^, and only the Roosters and the ^^ Peep-o^-Day-Boys*' 
 were out on the prowl for a spree. At length a move was made, but not a 
 rattle)' was to be had. Bob and the party, chaffing, proposed to see the 
 Author safe to his sky-parlour. The boys were primed (ox anything. Upon 
 turning the corner of Sydney^ s Alley, into Leicester-Fields,* we were assailed 
 by some trouble customers, and a turn-up was the result (as the Platet most 
 accurately represents). Bob got a stinker, and poor I received a chancery- 
 suit upon the nob. How I reached the upper-story, I know not ; but, on 
 waking late in the day, I found my pocket-book was absent without leave. 
 I was in great grief at its loss, not on account of the blunt it contained 
 much worse the notes in it were dearer than gold to me. The account of 
 Jerry's introduction to the Marchioness of Diamonds, the Duchess of 
 Hearts, Lady Wanton, Dick Trifle, Bill Dash, &c., &c., on his appearance 
 in Rotten Row with the Corinthian, booked on the spot. I was in a com- 
 plete /-^. I immediately went to sartain persons, and communicated my 
 loss ; how, where, and when ; and I was consoled, that, if it were safe, 
 Pierce Egan should have it. Day after day passed, and no account of it ; 
 
 * Crooky Booked it, i.e.. Cruikshank made a mental note; or, sketch 
 of the circumstance at the time : " When found, make a note of." 
 
 * Leicester Fields. Now Leicester Square, so called from a family 
 
 mansion of the Sydneys, Earls of Leicester, which stood on the north-east side. 
 
 t The Plate in question occurs at pa^e 276 of the work, and is entitled " Life in 
 London. P^^/ o' Day-Boys ; A Street Row, the Author losing his ' reader ;' Tom and 
 Jerry sho^vitig fight, and Logic floored." N.B. A Catnachian pirated copy of the Plate 
 will be found at page 36 and 99, of the present work. But a far better idea of this, and 
 all the other Plates by the Brothers Cruikshank : in Colours after the Originals, will be 
 found in the reprint of Life in London : Published by Chatto and Windus, I'iccadilly. 
 Crown 8vo. , cloth extra 7s. 6d. Editor. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I gave it up for lost, and scratched my moppery, again and agaitiy but 
 could not recollect accurately, the substance of my notes. I was sorry for 
 mj^elf ; I was sorry for the public. However, on Friday morning last, 
 taking a tu7'n into Paternoster Row, my friend Jones* smiling, said he had 
 got the Book : as he is fond of a bit of gig, I thought he was in fun, but, 
 on handing it over to me, with the following letter, my peepers twinkled 
 again with delight. 
 
 To the care of Mr. ^ones, for P. Egan. 
 Sir, You see as how I have sent that ere Litter, (i,) Pocket-Book, 
 which so much roxv has been kicked up about amongst us. Vy it an't vorth 
 a single tonic, (2.) Who's to understand it? vy it's full of pot-hooks and 
 hangers (3.) and not a screen (4.) in it. You are determined nobody shall 
 nose your idears. If your name had not been chaunted in it, it would have 
 been dinged into the dunagan. But remember, no conking. 
 
 From yours, &c., 
 Dec. 20, 1820. Tim Hustle. 
 
 The joy I felt on recovering my Pocket-Book I cannot communicate. The 
 return of it, however, arrived too late to prevent the following : 
 
 APOLOGY. 
 
 In consequence of Bob Logic's Daffy, only one sheet of Letter Press 
 accompanies the Plates of No. 5 ; but, to make up for this unavoidable 
 deficiency, THREE SHEETS of Letter Press will be given in No. 6. 
 
 I therefore trust, under the circumstances of the case, a liberal allowance 
 will be made, when it is recollected that such RAMBLES and SPREES 
 FIRST gave the Author an idea of detailing some of the " rich scenes''"' which 
 are only to be found in 
 
 LIFE IN LONDON. 
 
 Wishing health and happiness, united with the compliments of the season, 
 
 to all my numerous Subscribers, 
 
 I remain, 
 Your much obliged and humble servant, 
 Sky-Parlour, P. EGAN. 
 
 January I, 1 82 1. 
 
 * Mr Jones of the firm of Sherwood, Jones and Co., Publishers, Paternoster Row, 
 London. 
 
 I. Literary. 2. A half-penny. 3. Short-hand. 4. One pound note. An author, 
 indeed, with money in his pocket-book, would be a novelty in Life in London. But in the 
 North, they are not quite so Scott free in this respect. Merit is at all times, worthy of 
 reward. 
 
XVlll. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 In Chapter XIV. of the original Life in London, there 
 is such a graphic description of Tom, Jerry and Logic the 
 Oxonian; making a ^' jolly Night of //" at the once famed 
 Vauxhall Gardens : written in so truly a Piercy Egania! ! ! style 
 that we are tempted to reproduce it in its entirety for the benefit 
 of our readers, together with a few Notes of our own to follow. 
 
 -:o:- 
 
 "I perceive," said Tom, "on perusing the newspaper, Vauxhall 
 
 Gardens are open, and therefore, Jerry, to-night we will pay them a visit." 
 " It is an extraordinary place, indeed," replied Hawthorn, " if my Old Dad 
 and Mam have not exaggerated its grandeur ; but, as the old people have not 
 been used to sights, it may account for their astonishment and rapture in 
 speaking about them." "I am not surprised at that," answered Tom, 
 smiling ; "in my humble opinion, it has not its equal in the world. There is 
 nothing like it in Paris. Pleasure holds her court at Vauxhall. In those 
 gay regions, you are liable to jostle against the gods and goddesses Bacchus 
 you will find frequently at your elbow Venus and the Graces passing and 
 repassing, yet condescendingly smiling upon you MoMUS surrounded by fun 
 and laughter Terpsichore attending upon your j/^j and Apollo wind- 
 ing up the whole with the most pleasing harmony." *' No Lethe, then is 
 necessary at Vauxhall, I suppose," said Jerry, ironically, interrupting Tom. 
 "Yes, my dearCoz," answered the Corinthian. "It might be inferred 
 that nearly, if not all the visitors, upon entering Vauxhall Gardens, had drank 
 of the waters of Lethe, for everything else seems to be forgotten on joining 
 this enchanting scene : however, I can speak for myself in this respect." 
 " Excellently well defined, Tom," replied Logic " To me, Vauxhall is the 
 festival of Love and Harmony, and produces a most happy mixture of 
 society. There is no precision about it, and every person can be accominoda- 
 ted, however substantial, or light and airy their palates. If eating, my dear 
 Jerry, is the object in view, you will perceive tables laid out in every box, 
 and the order is only wanted by the waiter instantly to gratify the appetite. 
 If drinking, the punch is so prime, and immediately follows the call, that 
 it will soon make you as lively as a harlequin. If inclined to 7valtz or to 
 
INTRODUCTION. XIX. 
 
 reel, partners can be procured without the formality of a master of the 
 ceremonies. If you are fond of singing, the notes of that ever-green, Mrs. 
 Bland, never fail to touch the heart. If attached to music, the able per- 
 formers in the orchestra, the Pandean minstrels, and regimental bands, in 
 various parts of the gardens, prove quite a treat. \i pi-omenading is your 
 forte, you will find illuminated walks of the most interesting and animated 
 description. Numerous persons of the highest quality : myriads of lovely 
 females, with gaiety beaming upon every countenance ; and the pleasure of 
 meeting with old friends and acquaintances, render the tout ensemble impres- 
 sively elegant and fascinating. Even the connoisseur in paintings may find 
 subjects at Vauxhall too rich to be passed over in haste. In short, there is such 
 an endless variety of amusements, in rapid succession, from the song to the 
 dance from refreshment to the glass from the cascade to the fireworks, 
 that time positively flies in these Gardens. Reflection is not admitted ; and 
 the senses are all upon the alert. You may be as extravagant as you please, 
 or you need not spend a single farthing, if economy is your object, and not 
 be found fault with neither. If you like it so best," continued the Oxonian, 
 smiling, '* you may be as gay as a dancing-master, and enter into all the fun 
 and frolic by which you are surrounded ; or you can be as decorous as a parson 
 in his pulpit, and be nothing more than a common observer. But if enjoy- 
 ment is your motto, you may make the most of an evening in these Gardens 
 more than at any other place in the Metropolis. It is all free and easy stay 
 as long as you like, and depart when you think proper." " Your description 
 is so flattering," replied Jerry, ' that I do not care how soon the time 
 arrives for us to start." Logic proposed a " bit of a stroll," in order to 
 get rid of an hour or two, which was immediately accepted by ToM and 
 Jerry. A turn or two in Bond Street a st7'oll through Piccadilly a '* look 
 in" at Tattersall's a ramble through Pall Mall and a strut on the CVr- 
 rinthian Path, fully occupied the time of our heroes till the hour for dinner 
 arrived, when a few glasses of Tom's rich wines soon put them on the qui 
 vive ; Vauxhall was then the object in view, and the Trio started, bent 
 upon enjoying all the pleasures which this place so amply affords to its 
 visitors. 
 
 ** It is really delightful," exclaimed Jerry, on his entering the Gardens, 
 during the first act of the concert j *' I was, on my first visit, enraptured 
 
XX. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 with Sydney Gardens, at Bath ; but, I must confess, that the brilliancy of 
 this scene is so superior that it appears to me like a New World, and you 
 have not, my friends, overrated W^ 
 
 Hawthorn, under the guidance of \i\%pals, was not long in exploring the 
 illuminated walks, the rotunda, and everything belonging to this fashionable 
 place of resort. Our hero was in high spirits ; Logic was also ripe for a 
 spree : and the Corinthian so agreeable in disposition, that he made known 
 to his two friends he was ready to accommodate them in any proposition they 
 might feel inclined to make. Jerry expressed himself much pleased with 
 the arrangement and performance of the concert ; and he likewise observed, 
 the music of the songs reflected considerable credit on the talents of the 
 composer.* On passing through the rooms attached to the rotunda, in 
 which the paintings of Hogarth and Haynian\ are exhibited, and also the 
 portraits of the late King and Queen, on their coming to the throne, Jerry, 
 with a smile, retorted upon Logic, *' that those paintings certainly could 
 
 * Mr. Parry, the celebrated composer of the Welsh Melodies and several other popular 
 pieces of music ; a gentleman well known in the musical world, and who has risen to the 
 well-merited eminence he now enjoys entirely from the possession of superior talents. Mr. 
 Parry was originally the master of the Derbyshire Band, and the fife was the first instru- 
 ment he excelled upon, when quite a boy ; but his performances on the flageolet are 
 exquisitely fine, and the admiration of all those persons who have heard him. 
 
 t Paintings of Hogarth and Hayman. =At the sale of the movable property, Oct., 
 1841, twenty-four pictures by William Hogarth [1697-1764] and Francis Hayman, R.A., 
 historical painter [1708-1776] produced but small sums : they had mostly been upon the 
 
 E remises since 1742 ; the canvas was nailed to boards, and much obscured by dirt. Those 
 y Hogarth fetched as follows . A Drunken Man, i, 4s. ; A Woman pulling out an Old 
 Man's grey hairs, ,-^ 3s. ; Jobson and Nell m the Devil to Pay, ^4 4s. ; The Happy 
 Family, ^3 15s. ; Children at Play, ;^ 4 iis. 6d. Those by Hayman: Children Bird's- 
 nesting, ^ los. ; Minstrels, ^3 ; The Enraged Husband, a, 4s. ; The Bridal Day, 6 6s.; 
 Blindman's Buff, >, 8s. ; Prince Henry and Falstaff, ] : Scene from the Rake's Progress, 
 () 15s. ; Merry-making, x 12s. ; The Jealous Husband, ^ ; Card-party, (i ; Children's 
 Party, ;^4 15s. ; Battledore and Shuttlecock, \ los. ; The Doctor, i, 14s. fd. ; Cherry- 
 bob, -2 15s. ; The Storming of Seringapatam, Z los. ; Neptune and Britannia, ;^8 15s. 
 Four busts of Simpson, the celebrated Master of the Ceremonies, were sold for ids. ; and a 
 bust of his royal shipmate, William IV. not a sovereign ! only 19s. Among the Vauxhall 
 composers were Arne, Boyce, Carter, Mountain, Hook (father to Theodore Edward) and 
 Signor Storace. Male singers : Beard, Tommy Lowe, Webb, Charley Dignum, Vernon, 
 Incledon, Braham, Pyne, Sinclair, Tinney Pretty Jane Robinson, Paul Bedford, W. H. 
 Williams, Sharp, Weekes, &c. Females : Miss Brent, Mrs. Wrighten, Mrs. Weischel 
 (mother of Mrs. Billington), Mrs. Mountain, Mrs. Crouch, Mrs. Bland, Miss Tryer (after- 
 wards Mrs. Liston), Miss Graddon, Miss Love, Miss Tunstall, Miss P. Horton, &c. 
 Italian Operas were performed here in 1829. The band were the last to wear the semi- 
 circular or cocked hat : 
 
 " Bjr the high dome that trembling glows 
 
 With lamps, cock'd hats, and shiv'ring bows, 
 How many hearts are shook ! 
 
 A feather'd chorister is there. 
 
 Warbling some tender, grove-like air. 
 
 Composed by Mr. Hook." London Magazine, Sept., 1824. 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXI. 
 
 not be passed over in haste, if the proprietors of the Gardens thought 
 catalogues were not necessary, it would, however, prove much more pleasing 
 to the visitors if a few lines were painted under them, by way of explanation.^' 
 " I must agree with your remarks," replied Logic ; " no visitor ought to be 
 suffered to remain in the dark on any subject amidst such a blaze of illumi- 
 nation. Never mind criticising any more about these pictures ; let us retire 
 to a nice little box, for I assure you my ogles have feasted enough, and I stand 
 in need of much more substantial refreshment. Some burnt-wine, ham 
 shavings* chickens, sherry, and a lively drop of arrack-punch, my boys, 
 will enable us to finish the evening like trumps^ "A good proposition," 
 cried Tom. *'It is," said Jerry; "and I second it." The Trio 
 immediately left the gay scene, for a short period, to partake of all the choice 
 articles which the larder could produce to please their palates. The bottle 
 was not suffered to stand still by our heroes, and the punch also moved off 
 with great facility, till the lively military band invited them once more to 
 
 * Vauxhall Slices! or Ham Shavings! ^V^? page 213. Apropos to 
 the subject we here insert the following Jeu d' esprit: from Bell's Life in London: 
 August 2, 1829. 
 
 A NEW SONG TO AN OLD TUNE. 
 
 [Mr. Moncrieff, the Dramatist, having received an invitation to supper from the Pro- 
 prietors of Vauxhall, returned one of the Gentlemen the following extemporaneous 
 answer : ] 
 
 By thy cold fowls, each worth, at least a crown 
 And by thy ham which makes these fowls go down 
 By thy French rolls thy beef and pickled ghirkins 
 By thy brown stout, by Barclay brew'd and Perkins 
 And by thy lettuce, from the isle of Cos 
 Thy pepper, vinegar, and mustard, pos. 
 In that same place thou hast appointed me, 
 This ev'ning, truly, will I meet with thee ! 
 
 By thy old port, and thy particular sherry, 
 With which men, for six shillings, oft get merry 
 By thy Sauterne, thy Hock, and thy Bucellas, 
 Thy real Champagne Nectar of good fellows 
 By thy best Chateau Alargaiix ; and again, 
 By Mr. Simpson,* blandest, best of men ! 
 In that same place thou hast appointed me. 
 This ev'ning, truly, will I meet with thee. 
 
 By thy Italian singers, whose fine throats 
 Produce such a vast quantity of notes 
 By thy Hydratdics and thy Cosmoramas, 
 
 Delight of all town-visiting clods and farmers 
 By thy famed fire-works, pleasing great and sma 
 And by thy rack-punch, greatest ch.arm of all ! 
 
 In that same place thou hast appointed me, 
 This ev'ning, truly, will I meet with thee ! 
 
 M.C., and Inspector of the Gardens. 
 
 111. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 join the merry dance, when Logic, full of fun and laughter, said, "he was 
 now able to reel with any lady or gentleman in the Gardens." "Yes," 
 replied Tom, laughing heartily, "I'll back you on that score. Bob ; but not 
 to danced The elegant appearance and address of the Corinthian soon 
 procured him lots of dashing partners : Jerry was not behind his Coz in 
 that respect ; and the agility both our heroes displayed on the " light 
 fantastic toe " attracted numerous gazers. Logic, who was for " pushing 
 along, keep moving," as he termed it, was interrupted in his pursuit by a 
 jack'd' -dandy hero, and who also quizzed the Oxonian with the appellation 
 of " Old Barnacles y Some sharp words passed in reply from Logic, when 
 the dandy ^ who was rather snuffy, as well as impudent, put himself into a 
 posture of defence, crying out, " Come on my fine fealow, I'll soon spoil 
 your daylights." The Oxonian immediately gave the dandy so severe a blow 
 on his head that he measured his length on the ground like a log of wood : 
 and, on Logic perceiving the fallen dandy quite terrified, he assumed to be 
 in a most violent rage, and addressing two of the sisterhood near him, with 
 **My dears, if you do not hold my arms, I am so tremendous a fellow, I 
 shall certainly do him a mischief." This piece of bombast had the desired 
 effect ; and the dandy y amidst roars of laughter, endeavoured to get up and 
 run away ; but Logic held him, and said, " That was the way he took to 
 correct fellows who addressed him improperly ; and, to prevent mistakes in 
 future, he advised him to remember Mr. Green Specs" The Oxoniati, 
 anxious to keep up the fun, pretended, all of a sudden, to be in great agony, 
 and, putting up his hand to his head, exclaimed, in a piteous tone, " I have 
 got the worst of it after all ; I have lost an eye." " I hope not," said a lady, a 
 little advanced in years, who was an observer of the scene, apparently much 
 grieved at his misfortune. " Never mind, my love," replied Logic ; " it is 
 only Q. green one ; I can get another," showing his spectacles, with one of his 
 glasses out. Bob now reeled off, receiving the applause of the spectators as a 
 very funny fellow. On the conclusion of the dance. Tom and Jerry 
 traversed the Gardens, and enjoyed themselves to the utmost extent in all 
 the variety they afforded, till day-light had long given them the hint it was 
 time to think of home. Logic, as upon former occasions, was not to be 
 found ; and the Corinthian and his Coz were compelled to leave Vauxhall 
 without him. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Under the Especial Patronage of HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 EOYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. The Proprietors re- 
 spectfully beg leave to acquaint the Public that these Gardens having been newly 
 and fancifully decorated, are now open for the SEASON, every Monday, Wednesday, 
 and Friday Evenings. TO-MORROW, June ii, Wednesday and Friday Evenings next, 
 a Vaudeville, written by Mr. Moncneffe, called ACTORS' AL FRESCO; or, the 
 Play in the Pleasure Grounds. With principally original Music composed by Messrs. 
 T. Cooke, Blewitt, and Horn. Sir tJdolph Honeysuckle, Mr. S. Bennett; Orlando 
 Saville, Mr. Horn ; Signor Patrick O'Diddle, Mr. Fitzwilliam ; Jeremy Crambo. Mr. 
 Woulds; Miss Frances Honeysuckle, Miss Graddon ; Miss Penelope Honeysuckle, Miss 
 Pearce ; Sally Larkspur, Mrs. Fitzwilliam ; Villagers, &c., &c. The Vaudeville will 
 begin at a quarter past eight. Author and Stage Manager, Mr. Moncrieffe. 
 
 An Entirely NEW DIVERTISEMENT (composed by Mr. Ridgway), for which 
 a numerous Corps de Ballet is engaged. 
 
 In the course of the Evening, Mr. BLACKMORE will perform his astonishing Feats 
 on the Slack Rope. 
 
 The FIRE-WORKS, with the wonderful Ascent on the Rope, by BLACKMORE, 
 will be exhibited with their usual splendour, by those celebrated Artists, SOUTHBY and 
 D'ERNST. 
 
 The CONCERT, which has ever formed a prominent feature, will be performed as 
 heretofore, in the original and much admired Orchestra, in the open Gardens ; and will 
 consist of entirely new Songs, Duets, Glees, &c., composed by Cooke, Blewitt, and Horn, 
 and sung by Messrs. Woulds, Horn, Benson, Tinney, and Fitzwilliam, Miss Graddon, 
 Mrs. Austin, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. 
 
 The Military and Scotch Bands, under the direction of Mr. Hopkins will be in attend- 
 ance. Director and Leader of the Music, Mr. T. Cooke ; Composers, Messrs. T. Cooke, 
 Blewitt, and Horn. 
 
 The Scenery and Decorations by Messrs. Thorn, Cox, and Assistants. Mechanists, 
 Messrs. Shaw, Lowe, &c. 
 
 A Spectacle of an extraordinay nature, on a scale of magnitude never yet attempted in 
 any Country, is in preparation, and will speedily be announced. Doors open at Seven. 
 Admission, 4s. 
 
 VAUXHALL. ~ 
 
 Vauxhall Gardens the gay and favourite spot of metropolitan amusement, and of 
 fashionable resort in the summer season commenced their attractions to the public on 
 Monday. The weather was highly favourable. The entertainments of the evening com- 
 menced with a petit piece Actors' A I Fresco ; or, The Play in The Pleasure Grounds, by 
 Mr. Moncrieffe. It was received favourably, though certainly not possessing such claims to 
 public favour as one might expect from the popular author of Tom and Jerry, Dott 
 Giovanni, &-V. The Concert consisted of entirely new songs, duets, glees, &c., composed 
 by Horn, Cooke, and Blewitt ; one of the songs a comic one the composition of Blewitt, 
 possessed more merit, both as to the words and the music, than compositions for a tem 
 porary occasion, like the present, usually do. The space afforded to the public for a view 
 of the fire-works was more limited than hitherto. This contracted allowance of accommo- 
 dation, we understand, is attributable to arrangements which are making to celebrate the 
 approaching anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, on a scale of unequalled brilliancy and 
 splendour. The bxes and several compartments in the gardens are painted in a pleasing 
 light colour a mixture of green and white which imparts a freshness and rural appear- 
 ance to the scene, far more agreeable to the eye than the gaudy tints which were adopted 
 in the previous decorations. Belts Life in London. 
 
 iii. 2 
 
XXIV. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 GRAND CORONATION FETE I 
 UNDER THE SPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. The Proprietors re- 
 spectfuUy acquaint the Public, that it is their intention to celebrate this Anniversary 
 TO-MORROW, Monday, 21st July, 1828, in a style very superior indeed to any Gala it 
 has ever been in their power of producing, as they are enabled to embrace all the distin- 
 guished characteristics of the Spanish Fete, in which the Royal, Noble, and distinguished 
 Visitors were so highly delighted on the 8th instant. The ANNIVERSARY of the 
 CORONATION of His MAJESTY may therefore be termed a Superb Repetition of the 
 brilliant Illuminations, extensive and novel Decorations, &c., &c., of that night ; and the 
 Public are assured, that the most splendid preparations are in progress, to entertain, 
 delight, and surprise the Visitors. The Gardens will be made one entire scene of light, 
 by every avenue and walk exhibiting illuminated Ornaments, Mottoes, &c., &c., in varie- 
 gated Lamps and Transparencies ; and the following is a slight Programme of the Night's 
 Amusements : 
 
 THE HYDROPYRIC EXHIBITION, which increases nightly in the favour of the 
 Public, will be performed with all its numerous cascades of coloured fire and variegated 
 water. 
 
 A NEW VAUDEVILLE, in the Rotunda Theatre. The Songs, Duets, &c., adapted 
 o familiar Airs ; previously to which Master Charles will perform a Solo on the Violin. 
 
 RAMO SAMEE, the wonderful Indian Juggler, will delight the Company with his 
 surprising performances with Knives, Balls, Pyramids, &c., &c. 
 
 A SUPERB DISPLAY of FIRE-WORKS will take place immediately after the Con- 
 cert. The Proprietors pride themselves much upon the universal approbation and delight 
 afforded by the displays of Fire- Works at Vauxhall, and which can be witnessed at no 
 other place of amusement in the kingdom ; and they pledge themselves that the Fire- 
 Works of this Evening shall be of the very first character. The Artist has directions 
 (regardless of expense) to produce the most splendid display. 
 
 Under the especial Patronage of HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 R 
 
 OYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. TO-MORROW, June 
 
 29, Wednesday, July i, Fiiday July 3, will be presented, in the Rotunda, an entirely 
 New Vaudeville, called 
 
 A DAY UP THE RIVER, 
 With New Music, composed by Mr. T. Cooke and Mr. Blewitt. The characters by 
 Messrs. T. Cooke, Weekes, G. Smith, Robinson, W. H. Williams ; Miss P. Horton, and 
 Miss Helme. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 A CONCERT, 
 
 In the open Orchestra, in which several New songs will be introduced for the first time. 
 
 A New Pantomime (first time), called 
 
 THE YELLOW DWARF ; or Harlequin Knight of the Lion. 
 Under the direction of Mons. Hullin. 
 
 Mr. Grey, having been honoured every Evening with the most unbounded applause, 
 will continue to exhibit his unrivalled. 
 
 FANTOCCINI. 
 
 The Amusements will terminate with a display of 
 
 FIRE-WORKS 
 Towards the close of which will be exhibited an HYDROPYRIC TEMPLE, from which 
 will issue a Grand Discharge of Fire, interspersed with Waterfalls, Cascades, Jets 
 d'Eaux, &c. 
 
 Admissson for the Season and Nightly Cards may be had at 23, Ludgate-hill ; 141, 
 Fleet-street ; 8, Charing-cross, 146, Oxford-street ; and at the Gardens. 
 
 Books, descriptive of the Amusements and Songs of the Opera and Concert, to be had 
 in the Gardens only. 
 
 The Gardens are opened every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. 
 
 Parties desirous of Dining in the Gardens can be accommodated at or after Six o'clock. 
 
 Doors open at Seven. Admission 4s. 
 
 Under the especial Patronage of HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. The Proprietors re- 
 respectfully acquaint the Public, That these GARDENS WILL "OPEN for the 
 SEASON TO-MORROW, Monday, June i, and will continue open during the Summer, 
 every Monday, Wednesday^ and Friday ; and they have the pleasure of announcing that 
 they have succeeded in obtaining for a few Nights the powerful aid of Miss Fanny Ayton, 
 Mesdames, Castelli and De Angioli, Signor Torri, Guiberlel, De AngioUi, and Pelegrini, 
 to sing in 
 
 ITALIAN OPERA BUFFA. 
 These performers will have the honour of appearing on the first night, in Rossini's 
 celebrated Opera of II Barbiere di Seviglia, which will be given in the Rotunda Theatre. 
 The Musical Department under the direction of Mr. T. Cooke ; Conductor Mr. Blewitt. 
 
 A CONCERT, 
 
 As heretofore, in the original Orchestra in the open Gardens, consisting of New Songs, 
 Duets, Sue, to be sung by Mr. W. H. Williams, Mr. Robinson, Mr. G. Smith, and Mr. 
 Weekes (from the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane), Miss P. Horton (Pupil of Mr. Blewitt), 
 and Miss Helme. 
 
 An entire new COMIC BALLET will be performed in the open Theatre, under the 
 direction of Mons. Hullin, called 
 
 POLICHINEL VAMPIRE. 
 The Dancers principally from the Opera Theatre, assisted by numerous corps de ballet. 
 Leader of the Ballet, Mr. R. Hughes. 
 
 The Scenery, with various paintings and many New Cosmoramas, dispersed about the 
 Gardens, by Mr. Cocks and Assistants. The amusements will terminate with a display of 
 
 FIRE-WORKS. 
 Towards the close of which will be exhibited an HYDROPYRIC TEMPLE, from which 
 will issue a Grand Discharge of Fire, interspersed with Waterfalls, Cascades, Jets d'Eaux, 
 &c. The Fire-Works' Artists are Mr. SouthbyandMr. D'Ernst, whose inimitable displays 
 have given such unmixed satisfaction for several successive Seasons. The Military and 
 Scotch Bands under the direction of Mr. Hopkins. 
 
 Admission for the Season and Nightly Cards may be had at 23, Ludgate-hill ; 141, 
 Fleet-street ; 148, Oxford-street ; and at the Gardens. 
 
 Books, descriptive of the Amusements and Songs of the Opera and Concerts, to be had 
 in the Gardens only. 
 
 The Italian Opera will begin at Ten o'clock. Doors open at Seven. Admission, 4s. 
 
XXVI. INTRODUCTION. 
 
 UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 ROYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL OPEN EVERY 
 MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and FRIDAY. TO-MORROW (Monday), 14th 
 July, a variety Entertainment will be given, consisting of an entirely New Vaudeville, 
 entitled SHE WOULD IF SHE COULD. Adapted to favourite and familiar Airs. 
 Characters by Mr. T. Cooke, Mr. S. Bennett, Mr W. H. Williams, Miss Knight, Miss 
 Helme, and Mrs. Younge, &c., &c., &c. The New Pantomime, called HARLEQUIN 
 IN THE BOTTLE. A Concert in the open Orchestra. The Dioramic Pictures, Cosmo- 
 ramas, and Spectre Grove. The unrivalled Performances of the celebrated CHING 
 LAURO. To conclude with the Grand Novelty of the HYDROPYRIC EXHIBI- 
 TION, which is received with the most tumultuous marks of approbation, forminga display 
 of Water and Fire -Works never before attempted in any country. The Military and 
 Scotch Bands as usual. Doors open at Seven. Admission, 4s. Books, with all the 
 particulars of the Performance, in the Rotunda Theatre, Ballet, open Orchestra, &c., &c., 
 to be had only in the Gardens. Beware of spurious Pamphlets, pressed upon the Public at 
 the entrance. 
 
 UNDER THE ESPECIAL PATRONAGE OF HIS MAJESTY. 
 
 pOYAL GARDENS, VAUXHALL. For a FEW NIGHTS 
 
 y\j LONGER. The Proprietors respectfully inform the Public, that in consequence of 
 the decided favourable state of the Weather, the Gardens will be Open TO-MORROW, 
 Wednesday and Friday, when the UNION GALA will be repeated with (if possible) in- 
 creased splendour and effect. The whole of the Illuminations, Decorations, Mottoes, &c., 
 which afforded so much delight last Evening, will be again exhibited, and a continual 
 succession of Entertainments take place from the time the doors open, including the 
 amusing LOTTERY PRESENTS. Doors open at Seven. Admission, 4s. 
 
 SURREY THEATRE. Under the direction of Mr. Elliston. 
 TO-MORROW, June 16, will be presented THE MILLER'S MAID. Giles, Mr. 
 Rayner; Phoebe, Mrs. Fitzwilliam. With DIE NACHTIGAL UND DER RABE. 
 And THE INCHCAPE BELL. Hans Hattock, Mr. Osbaldiston ; Guy Ruthven, Mr. 
 Rayner. Tuesday, Inkle and Yarico. With Die Nachtigal und Der Rabe. And 
 Giovanni in London. Wednesday, isttime at this Theatre, the extravaganza of Tom and 
 Jerry; or. Life in London. After which Master Burns will appear (for the ist time) in six 
 characters in A Day after the Fair. With the Inchcape Bell. Thursday, Tom and Jerry. 
 With Die Nachtigal und Der Rabe. And The Inchcape Bell. Friday, Tom and Jerry. 
 With Die Nachtigal und Der Rabe. And The Inchcape Bell. Saturday, Tom and Jerry 
 With Die Nachtigal und Der Rabe. And Love s Frailties. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 n RAND MASQUERADE, Argyll Rooms, first of the Season. 
 
 VJT The brilliant eclat which has lately attended this peculiar and popular species of 
 entertainment, urges as early re-commencement of such festive gaieties, and in compliance 
 with the general wish, TO-MORROW, Monday, November 30, is appointed for the first 
 GRAND FESTA DI BALLO. The Splendid Suite of Rooms will be newly Embel- 
 lished, Decorated, and Brilliantly Illuminated. 
 
 LITOLF and ADAMS' BAND, with the New Massaroni Quadrilles ! arranged from the 
 popular Music of "The Brigand," now performing with great success at the Theatre 
 Royal, Drury-lane, will be stationed in the Grand Ball Room, newly decorated as LE 
 SALON DE MARS ' The Emblematic Devices, Banners, Trophies, &c., &c., by the 
 most Eminent Artists. 
 
 Numerous Professional Dancers, from the Italian Opera House, and Theatres Royal, are 
 Expressly Engaged, to enliven the scene with a constant succession of French, English, 
 Italian, Irish, German and Scotch, Dances, particularly The Gallopade ! which will be 
 introduced immediately after Supper. 
 
 The Court of Momus will be furnished with an Effective Band for Country Dances ! and 
 occasionally enlivened with the Eccentric Efforts of numerous Artists, expressly engaged 
 for this SPLENDID CARNIVAL. 
 
 "All kinds of dresses splendid and fantastical ; 
 
 Masks of all times and nations, Turks and Jews, 
 
 Mimes, Harlequins and Clowns, with feats gymnastical ; 
 
 Greeks, Romans Yankeedoodles and Hindoos." Lord Byron. 
 AN ELEGANT SUPPER will be provided under the superintendence of Mr. Phillips, 
 of Ste3me House, Brighton, and Oxford-street, London ; and the Room will be opened at 
 One o'clock to enliven which PROFESSIONAL GLEE SINGERS will be engaged, 
 and at intervals a GRAND MILITARY BAND will perform some of the most favourite. 
 Overtures from La Muette de Portici, Si6ge de Corinth, Crociato in Egitto, &c., &c. 
 
XXVlll. 
 
 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 CHARLES WRIGHT'S 
 
 jApparitionJpjoearin^ l 
 jffj P Hyjpochondrii 
 
 to an 
 
 riac 
 
 Dans I'age heureux de la folic 
 En fetesj dissipant nos jours. 
 Nous suivons la route embelHe, 
 Par les Muses et les Amours. 
 Au refrein des Tambourins, | Lorsque le Champagne, 
 
 Au tic tac des Castignettes, I Fait eu s'echappant 
 
 Au jug iug du jus divin, | Pan ! Pan ! 
 
 Amis, chassons le chagrin Ce doux bruit me gagne 
 
 L'ame et le tympane. 
 Further particulars will be duly announced. Masks, Dominoes, Character and Fancy 
 Dresses, to be had at the Masquerade Warehouse, Opera Colonade, Haymarket. 
 
 Tickets of Admission, One Guinea each ; for Supper Tickets, 7s. 6d. each : and Private 
 Boxes to view the Masquerade without mixing m the Motley Group, Domino, and 
 Character Tickets, apply to Mr. Charles Wright, next the King's Theatre, Opera 
 Colonade, Haymarket. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 "''^^^^^W^^^^^^^ 
 
 DUCROW'S BENEFIT. 
 
 "DOYAL AMPHITHEATRE (ASTLEY'S). Mr. DUCROW 
 
 ^^ has the honour of announcing his BENEFIT REPRESENTATION TO-' 
 MORROW EVENING, Sept. 7. For the full detail of the Novelties prepared, it will be 
 necessary to refer to the hand bills, but the three following are leading features totally new, 
 and have never been performed, viz. : BONAPARTE'S PASSAGE OF THE MOUNT 
 ST. BERNARD, for the Stage ; to Commence at a Quarter-past Six ; and Mr. Ducrow's 
 two new Scenes for the Circle, of St. George and the Dragon, with its splendid Pageant, in 
 honour of the Champion's brave and puissant deed. With " Make way for Liberty ; or, 
 the Flight of the Saracens." In addition to these he will represent the Animated Venetian 
 Statue ; or, Living Models of Antiques ; and will appear with Miss Woolford on the 
 Double Tight Rope. The exercises of the German Rider, Herr Berg, and a variety of 
 other Entertainments. To conclude with the Grand Romantic Spectacle of THE 
 CATARACT OF THE GANGES.- Tickets to be had and places secured at the Box 
 Office, from Eleven till Four. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 To give the present generation of playgoers an insight into 
 the manners and customs of the so-called ** good old days :" 
 and in the " hot youth " of our great grandfathers and 
 mothers : when George the Fourth was King of England : the 
 dramatic version of Tom and Jerry ; or, Life in London, is 
 occasionally revived at one or other of the Metropolitan Minor 
 Theatres. In [868 Mr. Joseph A. Cave produced with 
 distinguished success MoncrieflTs Adelphi adaptation, carefully 
 revised at the : 
 
 Victoria Theatre. 
 
 It was announced thus : 
 
 The Performance will commence with the Rattling, Rollicking, Rum- 
 antic and Picturesque Drama of every-day Society, in its highest and lowest 
 phases, written by that celebrated reviewer of Mankind, the late 
 W. T. MoncriefF, entitled 
 
 TOM AND JERRY; 
 
 OR, 
 
 Life in London Fifty Years Ago ! 
 
 Squire Hawthorn An Old English Gentleman, one of the olden time Mr. J. BRADSHAW 
 Jerry Hawthorn His Nephew, rather verdant, until brought out Mr. JAMES FAWN 
 Farmer Cornflower - Mr. MILLER Sir Harry Blood - a Buck - Mr. FASHION 
 Bill Pointer - an awkward one - Mr. TERRIER Claw - a Lawyer - Mr. J. BAKER 
 Tom, alias Corinthian Tom - a blood of the first water - Mr. J. H. FITZPATRICK 
 Regular a Tiger, who knows his business Miss HUNT Servant - Mr. ALFREDS 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXXI. 
 
 SFORTSMAH'S CABIITET, 
 
 Life in the Country the party preparations for the Departure of Jerry. 
 ^'Horses sound, dogs healthy, \ Earths stopped, and foxes plenty." 
 
 A Country Gentleman's Idea of London Life. 
 
 Tom sets them on the right road the word pledged he shall go one gone already 
 who ? why, the Village Lawyer Where ? under the Table. 
 
 A Country Lane ! Life and Love in a Cottage ! 
 
 Jane . - . . a blossom of affection - Miss HARRIET FARREN 
 
 Sue in love with Jerry - - Miss FLORENCE FARREN 
 
 Kate - in love with Tom, and resolved upon reclaiming him - Miss LIZZIE GRAY 
 
 Tom's Sanctum in Corinthian Lodge. 
 
 Bob, otherwise Dr. Logic - a fly individual, fully acquainted with the classical 
 
 language of the Holy Land, or in other words St. Giles's Greek Mr. W. H. HARMER 
 Primefit - - a West-end Tailor, in other words, a sufferer - Mr. J. BAKER 
 Jerry gets an Introduction to Fast Life Tom's Advice and Lesson How the Trio 
 started for Enjoyment, 
 
 BURLINGTON ARCADE. 
 
 The Lovers in Ambush the Note Tom receives a chaffing from Logic. 
 Jemmy Green ... - from the City - - - Mr. F. MITCHELL 
 Mr. Tattersall - . - . well known ... Mr. M. ROBERTS 
 
 Cope and Galium - - - Touters - - Messrs. BAKER & WARE 
 
 Prance an Ostler .... Mr. ARTHUR 
 
 Jockeys, Yorkshire Coves, Black Legs, &c. 
 
 A look in at Tattersall's Tom and Jerry's judgment in purchasing a Prad how Jemmy 
 Green bought a horse and was taken home and in by it. 
 
 HYDE PARK CORNEH. 
 
 Tom and Jerry express their opinion strongly the assignation Tom's appointment 
 Logic improves Jerry's opinion of Town Education. 
 
 LIFE IN THE WEST 
 
 (ALMACK'S). 
 
 Act 
 2. 
 
 LIFE IN THE EAST 
 
 (ALL-MAX). 
 
 Dusty Bob - - Mr. R. H. KITCHEN Black Sal - - Mr. T. LAMB 
 
 Mr. Mace - Mine Host - Mr. M. ROBERTS Rosin - a Fiddler - Mr. SCRAPE 
 
 Mahogany Mary - Miss BROWN Mr. & Mrs. Lillywhite - Mr. & Miss BLACK 
 
 Bob, Tom and Logic in prime trim the Treat Put round the Lush Dusty Bob 
 
 and his Sarah, 
 
 Pas de Deux - - Messrs. R. H. KITCHEN & T. LAMB. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Tim O'Boozle - Mr. J. BAKER Mrs. Tartar - Miss ANNETTE VINCENT 
 
 *' Past Twelve o'clock and a Cloudy Night " The Bucks revel Mrs. Tartar in 
 a fix Help ! Help ! Help ! 
 
 '" Life amongst the Fancy! 
 
 Tom Crib - - - England's well-known Champion - Mr. G. CARTER 
 
 Swell Coves, Millers, &c., &c. 
 
 Tom and Jerry in a new phase true admirers of English pluck a Toast, 
 " Long Life to Gallant Tom Crib." 
 
 M S V R IS ^ IT. 
 
 Mr. J. BAKER Mrs. Tartar - Miss AIS 
 
 ; o'clock and a Cloudy Night " The Bucks revel 
 a fix Help ! Help ! Help ! 
 
 TEUrLEEAnTNieST! 
 
 Teddy McLush - - an Irish Watchman - - Mr. J. BRADSHAW 
 
 Mr. Tartar - - - Constable of the Night - - Mr. M. ROBERTS 
 
 A Row a rally, and a Rescue how to box a Watchman Tom and Jerry get the 
 best of a Charley Tom and Jerry in trouble after a spree. 
 
 INTERIOR OF ST. DUNSTAN'S WATCHHOUSE. 
 BACK SLUMS IN THE HOLY LAND, 
 
 Mr. Jenkins - King of the Cadgers, with a flash Medley - Mr. J. BRADSHAW 
 Billy Waters ... a well-known character - - Mr. F. MITCHELL 
 Little Jemmy . a cripple Mr. WEST Creeping Jack a beggar Mr. SMALLALMS 
 Ragged Dick a fly one Mr. SHREDS Dingey Bet - - . Miss NABEM 
 
 Soldier Suke . - - Miss LIST Landlord of the Drum - - Mr. CHALK 
 
 Kate, Sue and Jane in new characters Tom, Jerry and Logic up to their larks the 
 
 Thieves' Supper (without cant) the raid upon the Sanctuary a terrific mill Tom and 
 
 Jerry in their glory TABLEAU. 
 
 LEICESTER SQUARE. 
 Real Old Grimaldi Comic Scene. 
 
 Clown, Mr. R. H. KITCHEN Pantaloon, Mr. TOM LAMB 
 Here! Hollo! Now for Fun. 
 
 VAUXttAUGAWEWS 
 
 ^^ Magnificently Illuminated for a Fete. "^M 
 
 The Recognition all happy the Lovers united grand gallop 
 end of Tom and Jerry's Life in London. 
 
 Brilliant Shower of Fire by Professor Wells. 
 GRAND DENOUEMENT I 
 
INTRODUCTION. XXXlll. 
 
 In consequence of the great success of the revival of Tom and 
 Jerry at the Victoria Theatre where it ran nine weeks : 
 Mr. Conquest, of the Grecian, and Mrs. Lane, of the Britannia 
 Theatre, directly afterwards produced a version of the same. 
 A year or two after that Mr. William Holland, of the Surrey 
 Theatre, assisted by Mr. J. A. Cave, also staged it successfully. 
 
 In May, 1886, Mr. J. A. Cave re-produced the same at The 
 Elephant and Castle Theatre, which was set forth thus : 
 
 ELEPHANT & CASTLE THEATRE, S.E. 
 
 Grand Theatre. 
 
 IlESSEE and manager MR. J. A. CAVE. 
 
 Trains, Trams and Buses From all Parts Stop at the Doors. 
 
 TOM AND JERRY A BIG SUCCESS ; 
 
 GRAND REVIVAL OF LIFE IN LONDON 100 YEARS AGO. 
 
 Cruikshank's far-famed Pictures Realised. Manners and Customs of the Period. Old 
 Haunts of London. Life in the East. Life in the West. Larks by Day. Sprees by Night. 
 Betting Cribs. Sparring Cribs. All the Noted Characters in Costumes of the time. The 
 most Novel, Picturesque, and Amusing Entertainment in London. See Daily Telegraph, 
 Globe, Morning Post, Sporting Life, Dispatch, Lloyds, &c. 
 
 Powerful Cast. All the Original Sensational Effects 
 
 Early Pass Doors open Nightly at 6.30. 
 
 SATURDAY, May 29TH, 1886, and NIGHTLY at 7 
 
 TOM AND JERRY; 
 
 or, 
 LIFE IN LONDON. 
 
 All the Original Music, Songs, Duets, Choruses, and Dances. 
 PRODUCED FROM the Original Adelphi Manuscript, BY MR. J. A. CAVE. 
 
 The Scenes of Old London, &c.. By Mr. Medley Churchward. 
 
 To conclude with, for the first time here, an Original Domestic Drama, of intense interest, 
 entitled The 
 
 WREN BOYS; 
 
 Or, the Night Birds of Kerry. 
 Introducing the entire Company. 
 
 Stage Manager, Mr. George Skinner. Musical Director, Mr. Henri G. French. 
 
 Williams & Strahan, Printers, 74, New Cut, Lambeth. 
 
INTRODUCTION. 
 
 Jesters 
 
 Painted Scenery. 
 
 Messrs. Hodson, Smart, West, Marks, Fairburn, Park, Skelt, 
 and other publishers made a rich harvest out of the " Price 
 id. Plain and 2d. Coloured Characters of Tom and Jerry ; or, 
 Life in London," together with miniature stages, and " Book 
 OF THE Words " for the juvenile home-performing version of 
 the drama. 
 
 How delightful the book, and the pictures ! 
 
 oh ! the pictures are noble still ! was to the youths of 
 England, and how eagerly all its promised feasts of pleasure 
 were devoured by them, Thackeray has told us in his 
 Roundabout Paper, " De Ju venture" in the Cornhill 
 Magazine for October, i860. 
 
Eye Nature's walk, shoot folly as it flies, 
 And catch the manners living as they rise. 
 
 A man is thirty years old before he has any settled thoughts of his Fortune : 
 and if it is not completed before fifty ; he falls a building in his old age, and 
 and dies by that time his House is in a condition to be painted and glazed. 
 
HISTORY 
 
 OF THE 
 
 LIFE IN LON DON ; 
 
 DAY AND NIGHT SCENES 
 
 " Of Life in London, Tom, Jerry and Logic I sing." 
 To the Strand then I toddled the mob was great 
 My watch I found gone pockets undone : 
 I fretted at first, and rail'd against fate, 
 For I paid well to see " Life in London." 
 
 In the early part of the year 1820, the British public were 
 informed through the then existing usual advertising mediums 
 that there was about to be published, in monthly parts, 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 " Pierce Egan's Life in London ; or, the Day and Night 
 Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. ; and his elegant friend 
 Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, 
 in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis. Em- 
 bellished with thirty-six Scenes from Real Life, designed and 
 etched by L R. and G. Cruikshank, and enriched with numerous 
 original Designs on Wood by the same Artists " 
 
 "Some time previous to its appearance a great taste had 
 exhibited itself amongst fashionable bloods for sporting works 
 books upon the chase, upon racing, upon boxing, and * sport ' 
 generally. The demand soon brought an excellent supply, and 
 " BoxiANA," in its own peculiar department, at once became a 
 great favourite. Artists, too, arose, who devoted all their 
 powers to hunting subjects, to racing favourites, and pugilistic 
 encounters. Amongst these the names of Aiken, Dighton, 
 Heath, Brooke, Rowlandson, &c., became very popular. One 
 day it occurred to the editor of ' Boxiana ' that if Londoners 
 were so anxious for books about country and out-of-door sports, 
 why should not Provincials and even Cockneys themselves be 
 equally anxious to know something of "Life in London?" 
 The editor of ' Boxiana ' was Mr. Pierce Egan, who as the 
 literary representative of sport and high life, had already been 
 introduced to George IV., the character of the proposed work 
 was mentioned to the King and his Gracious Majesty seems to 
 have heartily approved of it, for he at once gave permission for 
 it to be dedicated to himself The services of Messrs. George 
 and Robert Cruikshank were secured as illustrators. 
 
 And on the 15th July, the first number, price one shilling, 
 was published by Messrs. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, of 
 Paternoster Row. This sample, or first instalment, of the entire 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 work was quite enough for society to judge by. It took both 
 town and country by storm. It was found to be the exact 
 thing in literature that the readers of those days wanted. 
 Edition after edition was called for and supplied, as fast as 
 the illustrations could be got away from the small army of 
 women and children who were colouring them. With the ap- 
 pearance of numbers two and three, the demand increased, and 
 a revolution in our literature, in our drama, and even in our 
 nomenclature began to develope itself. All the announcements 
 from Paternoster Row were of books, great and small, depicting 
 life in London ; dramatists at once turned their attention to the 
 same subject, and tailors, bootmakers, and hatters, recommended 
 nothing but Corinthian shapes, and Tom and Jerry patterns.* 
 
 Immediately Messrs. Sherwood and Co. issued the first 
 shilling number of Mr. Pierce Egan's work, out came Jones and 
 Co., of Finsbury Square, with the following in sixpenny 
 numbers : 
 
 REAL LIFE IN LONDON; 
 or, The Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq., and 
 his Cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis. 
 Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, 
 Amusements in High and Low Life, by an Amateur. Em- 
 bellished and Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Prints, 
 Designed and Engraved by Messrs. Heath, Aiken, Dighton, 
 Rowlandson, &c. 
 
 As may be readily conceived, the stage soon claimed " Tom 
 and Jerry." The first drama founded upon the work was from 
 the pen of Mr. Barry more, and thus announced in the bill : 
 
 * The late John Camden Hotten's Introduction to the new edition of 
 " Life in London." Chatto & Windus : Piccadilly. 
 
 B 2 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 "Royal Amphitheatre. Extraordinary Novelty and Eccentric 
 Production. Monday, September ly, 182 1, at half past six 
 o'clock precisely, will be presented, never acted, an entirely 
 New, Whimsical, Local, Melo-Dramatic, Pantomimical Drama, 
 with new scenery, dresses, and mechanical changes, founded on 
 Pierce Egan's popular work, which has lately engrossed the 
 attention of all London, called 'Life in London;' or, Day 
 and Night Scenes of Tom and Jerry, in their Rambles and 
 Sprees through the Metropolis." The piece prepared for stage 
 representation by Mr. W. Barrymore.* 
 
 " Corinthian Tom, Mr. Gomersal ; Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. 
 Jones ; and Bob Logic, Mr. Herring." 
 
 The second dramatic version was written for the Olympic 
 Theatre, by Charles Dibden, and thus set forth in the bill : 
 "Olympic Theatre. On Monday, November 12, 1821, and 
 following evenings, will be presented a New Extravaganza of 
 Fun, founded on Pierce Egan's highly popular work, and inter- 
 spersed with a variety of Airs and Graces, called " Life in 
 London." 
 
 " Tom (a Capital of the Corinthian Order) Mr. Baker. 
 
 " Jerry Hawthorn (out of Order, and more of the Com- 
 posite than Corinthian, never intended for the Church, though 
 fond of a Steeple-chase). Mr. Oxberry. 
 
 " Logic (a Chopping Boy, ' full of wise saws and modern 
 instances)., by Mr. Vale." 
 
 * Mr. Pierce Egan says : " Mr. Barrymore's Burletta was thought of, 
 written, and got up. in five days. As a friend, I attended the rehearsals, 
 notwithstanding 1 had previously made an outline of a Drama for myself. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Description of the Metropolis 
 
 Written and Set to Music by 
 
 CORINTHIAN TOM. 
 
 London Town's a dashing place For ev'ry thing that's going, 
 There's / and gig in every face so natty and so knowing. 
 Where Novelty is all the rage From high to low degree, 
 Such pretty lounges to engage- -Only come and see ! : 
 
 What charming sights On gala nights, 
 
 Masquerades Grand parades, 
 
 Famed gas lights Knowing fights, 
 
 Randall and Cribb Know how to fib. 
 
 Tothill-fields Pleasure vields. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Norwich buU'^With antics full. 
 
 Plenty of news All to amuse ; 
 
 The Monkey "Jacco" All the crack O ! 
 
 Ambroghetti's squall Match girl's bawl ! 
 
 Put on the ^A'Z'^J' Playful as doves 
 
 Then show yom forte A.\. the Fives' Court ; 
 
 Conjurors rare At Bartlemy fair ; 
 
 PoLiTO's beasts See city feasts, 
 
 Lord Mayor's day Then the play, 
 
 Adelphi Theatre Pretty feature ! 
 
 Rotton Row All the Go ! 
 
 In the Bench Keep your wench. 
 
 "When next you roam Mathew's " At Home ! 
 
 Such prime joking Lots of smoking ; 
 
 Here all dash on In the fashion. 
 
 Chorus Dancing, singing, full of glee, 
 
 O London, London town for me ! 
 
 From ev'ry part the natives run, 
 
 To view this spot of land ; 
 All are delighted with the fun, 
 
 Astonish! d 'tis so grand ! 
 To Vauxhall haste to see the blaze. 
 
 Such variegated lights ; 
 The ladies' charms are all the gaze 
 No artificial sights ! : 
 Lovely Faces Full of graces, 
 Heavenly charms Create alarms ! 
 Such glances And dances. 
 To the sky See Saqui fly- 
 In the blaze All to amaze. 
 Cyprians fine i^/^.r full of wine, 
 Orchestre grand Pandean band ; 
 Charming singing Pleasure bringing ; 
 Great attraction And satisfaction : 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Plenty of hoaxing ~ Strong coaxing ; 
 Beautiful shapes Beaux and apes, 
 Prone to quiz Every phiz ! 
 Dashing glasses Queering lasses ; 
 Flashy cits ^Numerous wits ; 
 Loud talking Thousands walking; 
 Rare treating - Numbers eating ; 
 Punch and wine Every thing prime, 
 Grand Cascade Once displayed ; 
 Duke and groom In one room ; 
 Here all dash on In the fashion ! 
 
 Chorus Dancing, singing, full of glee, 
 
 O London, London town for me ! 
 
 And yarious /a ftct'es there displayed, 
 To please and cheer the mind ; 
 
 They captivate both man and maid, 
 All polite and kind, 
 
 See fashion driving through each street, 
 With splendour and renown : 
 
 Pedestrians, too. with shining feet ; 
 O, what a charming town ! : 
 Four-in-hand Down the Strand ! 
 Funny gigs With knowing wigs ; 
 Baxter's hats That queer the flats ; 
 Flashy whips With silver tips, 
 Leathern breech Pretty stitch ! 
 High-bred cattle Tittle tattle, 
 Tattersall sell Peep into " Hell ! " 
 Full of play And make a stay ; 
 Hear Kean speak, Grimaldi squeak ! 
 Courts of law Full of jaw ; 
 Brougham plead Macauley read ; 
 And Old Borum At the Forum ; 
 To Opera prance See Vestris dance. 
 
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 At Free and Easy Full and greasy ; 
 Prime song and catch The Trotting-match 
 London Cries O rare hot pies ! 
 Sadler's Wells In summer tells ; 
 Quick approach In Hackney-coach ; 
 Take your Daffy All be happy : 
 And then dash on In the fashion. 
 
 Chorus Dancing, singing, full of glee, 
 
 O London, London town for me ! 
 
 Mr. W. T. Moncrieff one of the most successful and prolific 
 writers of the day appeared as the third on the list of 
 dramatists, and it was announced at the Adelphi Theatre in 
 the following style: ** On Monday, Nov. 26th, 1821, will be 
 presented for the first time, on a scale of unprecedented extent 
 (having been many weeks in preparation, under the superin- 
 tendence of several of the most celebrated Artists, both in the 
 Ups and Doivns of Life, who have all kindly come forward to 
 assist the Proprietors in their endeavours to render this Piece 
 a complete out-and-outer), an entirely new Classic, Comic, 
 Operatic, Didactic, Aristophanic, Localic, Analytic, Panoramic, 
 Camera-Obscura-ic, Extravaganza Burletta of Fun, Frolic, 
 Fashion, and Flash, in three acts, called ' Tom and Jerry ; or, 
 Life in London.' Replete with Prime Chaunts, Rum Glees, 
 and Kiddy Catches, founded on Pierce Egan's well-known and 
 highly popular work of the same name, by a celebrated extra- 
 vagant erratic Author. The Music selected and modified by 
 him, from the most eminent composers, ancient and modern, 
 and every Air furnished with an attendant train of Graces. The 
 costume and scenery superintended by Mr. I. R. Cruikshank, 
 from the Drawings by himself and his brother, Mr. George 
 Cruikshank, the celebrated Artists of the oriirinal work. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 TOM AND JERRY; 
 
 OR, LIFE IN LONDON. 
 
 AN OPERATIC EXTRAVAGANZA 
 BY W. T. MONCRIEFF. 
 
 HARK ! the watchman springs his rattle, 
 Now the midnight lark's begun. 
 
 JgS>-. 
 
 Bramatis Bfarsana)* 
 
 As performed at the Adelphi Theatre. 
 Corinthian Tom Mr. Wrench. 
 
 Jerry Hawthorn .. Mr. W. Burrough & Mr. J. Reeve. 
 Looic Mr. Wilkinson. 
 
 Jemmy Green Mr. Keeley & Mr. Brown. 
 
 Hon. Dick Trikle Mr. Bellamy. 
 
 Squire Hawthorn Mr. Buckingham. 
 
to TllK HISTORY OK 
 
 Pkimkfit Mr. Waylett. 
 
 Regular .. .. .. .. . .. Mr. Smith. 
 
 Tatteksal Mr. Philips. 
 
 Mace Mr. Maxwell. 
 
 Billy Waters Mr. Paulo. 
 
 Little Jemmy Mr. Cooper. 
 
 Dusty Bob Mr. Wal bourn. 
 
 Kate (otherwise the Hon. Miss Trifle), Mrs. Baker. 
 
 Sue .. .. (otherwise the Hon. Miss Trifle), Mrs. Waylett. 
 
 Jane (otherwise the Hon. Miss Trifle), Miss Hammersley. 
 Mrs. Tartar .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Mrs. Daly. 
 
 African Sal Mr. Sanders. 
 
 Many of the names in the above cast will be famiHar to old 
 playgoers, as most of the persons engaged in the performance 
 became great favourites with the public, and remained on the 
 British stage for the remaining part of their respective lives. 
 Now : 
 
 " All, all are gone, the old familiar faces," 
 
 Tom and Jerry. 
 
 From over the hills and far away, 
 
 Where rustic sports employ each day 
 
 Young Jerry came with cousin Tom, 
 
 To see the rigs of London Town. 
 
 Of all that e'er he did or saw, 
 A faithful picture here we draw. 
 
 SCENE Chajing Crib in Corinthian House. Table, Boxing Gloves, 
 Chairs, Foils, ^c, ^c. 
 
 Enter TOM and ]ERRY, as just arrived. 
 
 Tom. Ya ! hip ! come along, Jerry ; here we are safe arrived, my boy. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Welcome, my dear Jerry, to Corinlhian Hall to my snug chaffing crib 
 where, I hope, we shall have many a rare bit of gig together. 
 
 Jerry. Chaffing crib ! I'm at fault, coz, can't follow. 
 
 Tom. My prattling parlour my head quarters, coz where I unbend with 
 my pals. You are now in London the bang-up spot of the world for fun, 
 frolic, and ont-and-out-ing. Here it shall be my care, Jerry, to introduce 
 you to all sorts of life from the flowers of society, the roses, pinks, and 
 tulips, of one court, to the mechanical tag-rag and bobtail vegetables 
 bunches of turnips and strings of ing-ens, of another: for without a proper 
 introduction, London, gay, bustling, various, as it is, would be no more than 
 an immense wilderness. 
 
 Jerry. I suppose not. I'll do as much for you another time. 
 
 Tom. We must make the best use of our time ; I have seen a great deal 
 of life myself; still I have a great deal yet to see. But let me give you a 
 caution or two before we set out ; never be too confident rather at all times 
 plead ignorance than show it ; never disgrace the character of a friend, in 
 that family where you are introduced as a friend ; let the honour of the 
 husband and the peace of the father be preserved inviolable ; and never have 
 the once friendly door be shut against you, either as a seducer a hypocrite 
 or a scoundrel. But I say, my dear fellow, what do you call all this? this 
 toggery of yours will never fit you must have a new rig-out. 
 
 Jerry. Eh ! oh ! I understand. You think the cut of my clothes rather 
 too rustic - eh ? 
 
 Tom. Exactly ; dress is the order of the day. A man must have the look 
 of a gentleman, if he has nothing else. We must assume a style if we have 
 it not. This, what do you call it? this cover-me-decently, was all very well 
 at Hawthorn Hall, I dare say ; but here, among the pinks in Rotten-row, the 
 ladybirds in the Saloon, the angelics at Almack's, the-top-of-the-tree heroes, 
 the legs and levanters at Tattersall's, nay, even among the millers at the 
 Fives, it would be taken for nothing less than the index of a complete flat. 
 
 Jerry. I suppose not what's to be done ? 
 
 Tom. I'll tell you ; before we start on our sprees and rambles, I'll send for 
 that kiddy-artist, Dicky Pnmefit, the dandy habit maker, of Regent-street. 
 He shall rig you out in grand twig, in no time. Here, Regular ! {Calls). 
 
 Reg. Here I am sir. 
 
 Tom. Send for Dicky Primefit, diregtly. 
 
 Reg. What ! the sufferer, Sir ? 
 
 Tom. Yes, that's the fellow ; tell him to bring his card of address with him. 
 
 Jerry. Sufferer ! I'm at fault again, Tom ; can't follow. 
 
 Tom. The tailor, Jerry : we do make them suffer sometimes. 
 
 Reg. Yes, sir, the tailor bless me, how very uneducated ; I thought every 
 gentleman knew his tailor was the sufferer : I'm sure I know mine is, and to 
 some tun-; too, Lll chivey the rascal here directly, sir. \_Exit. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Tom. You shall go into training for a swell at once. 
 
 Jerri/. A swell ! I'm at fault again. 
 
 Tom. A swell, my dear Jerry 
 
 Loff. {Speaks ivithout). Just arrived, eh, very well. I'll go up ! 
 
 Tom. But stay ; here comes my friend Bob Logic ; he shall tell you what a 
 swell is his head contains all the learning I beg his pardon all the larks 
 extant ; he is a complete walking map of the metropolis a perfect pocket 
 dictionary of all the flash cant, and slang patter, either of St. James's or St. 
 Giles's ; only twig him. Welcome, my dear Bob ; ten thousand welcomes. 
 
 
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 Enter LOGIC. 
 Log. Thankye, my dear Tom thankye. Seeing your natty gig and fast 
 trotter at the door, as I passed, I couldn't avoid popping in to welcome you 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 back to town. You've been sadly miss'd among the big ones since you've 
 been away. Lots of chaffing about you at Dafify's. 
 
 Tom. I suppose so. You couldn't have popped in more opportunely ! 
 Allow me to introduce to you my companion and cousin, Jeremiah Haw- 
 thorn, Esquire, from Somersetshire ; Jerry Hawthorn, Doctor Logic, com- 
 monly called Bob Logic Doctor Logic, Jerry Hawthorn. Bob is the most 
 finished man of all the pave, Jerry, whether for drinking, roving, getting in 
 a row or getting out of one. 
 
 Log. Oh, you flatter me ! I yield the palm to you in those particulars. 
 To be sure I always was a knowing one. 
 
 Tom. You were, Bob. 
 
 Log. (To Jerry). Your most obedient, sir ; happy to see you. Where did 
 you pick him up ? {To Tom) . 
 
 Tom. A slip from the chawbacons ; rescued him from yokels. The 
 business is this ; bred up in Somersetshire, Jerry has never before crossed 
 Claverton Downs. He is now come to see life, and rub off a little of the 
 rust. In effecting this desirable consummation you can materially assist ; 
 under so skilful a professor of the flash as you, Bob 
 
 Jerry. Flash ! I'm at fault again, Tom. 
 
 Tom. Explain, Bob. 
 
 Log. Flash, my young friend, or slang as others call it, is the classical 
 language of the Holy Land ; in other words, St. Giles's Greek. 
 
 Jerry. St. Giles's Greek ; that is a language, doctor, with which I am 
 totally imacquainted, although I was brought up at a Grammar School. 
 
 Log. You are not particular in that respect ; many great scholars, and 
 better linguists than you, are quite as ignorant of it, it being studied more in 
 the Hammer Schools than the Grammar Schools. Flash, my young friend, 
 or slang, as others call it, is a species of cant in which the knowing ones 
 conceal their roguery from the flats ; and it is one of the advantages of 
 seeing Life in London, that you may learn to talk to a rogue in his own 
 language, and fight him with his own weapons. 
 
 Tom. I was telling him before you came in. Bob, that he must go in train- 
 ing for a swell, and he didn't understand what I meant. 
 
 Jerry. Oh, yes, I did, Tom. 
 
 Tom. No, no, you didn't ; come, confess your ignorance. 
 
 Log. Not know what a swell meant ? 
 
 Tom. No ; he wasn't up. 
 
 Jerry. Not up ? 
 
 Log. That is, you were not down. 
 
 Jerry. Not doWn ! 
 
 Tmn. No ; you're green ! 
 
14 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Jerry. Green ! 
 
 Log. Ah ! not fly 1 
 
 Tmi. Yes, not awake ! 
 
 Jerry. " Green ! fly ! awake ! " D me, but I'm at fault. I don't under- 
 stand one word you are saying. 
 
 Log. We know you don't, and that's what we're telling you. Poor young 
 man very uninformed. 
 
 Tom. Quite ignorant, isn't he, Bob ? 
 
 Log. Melancholy to think of quite lamentable. 
 
 Tom. You must go to school, again, Jerry. 
 
 Jerry. What ! the Hammer School ? 
 
 Log. Yes, take your degrees under the classical Captain Grose A swell, 
 my dear boy, or rather an empty swell, is an animal very plentiful in the 
 fashionable world ; which, like the frog in the fable, wishing to appear greater 
 than it is, and vie with the substantial John Bulls of the Exchange, keeps 
 puffing and puffing itself out, till it bursts in the attempt, and proves its 
 appearance, like itself, a bubble. 
 
 Enter REGULAR. 
 Reg. The sufferer's carriage is at the door, sir. 
 Tom. What, Dicky Primefit ? trundle him in. 
 Reg. This way, Mr. Primefit. 
 
 Prime. (Without) , Have the goodness, young man, to desire my footman 
 to tell my coachman to turn the horses heads towards the Military Club 
 House : 
 
 Enter PRIMEFIT. 
 
 And take that pair of buckskins from under the seat, that I'm going to take 
 home to the Duke of Dolittle. 
 
 Reg. Very well Mr. Thing-emy. Must stick it into him for a new pair of 
 kickses, by -and -by. [Exit. 
 
 Prime. Gentlemen, your most obedient. Mr. Corinthian, yours. What 
 are your commands? was it your little bill you wanted? because if it is, I've 
 got it all ready 'tis but a small account ! (Unrolls long bill). 
 
 Tom. Eh ! (Looking at it). Oh, d n your bill ! 
 
 Log. (After looking at it) . Ah, dn your bill ! ( Throios himself on sofa). 
 
 Jerry. (iValking round it). Yes, dn your bill ! I'm up, down, and see 
 Imfly ! 
 
 Prime. Very well, gentlemen, with all my heart dem the bill ; I'll take 
 care of the receipt though ; (aside.) as you don't want to discharge your 
 account, Mr. Corinthian, perhaps you wish to add to it ; if so, I'll take your 
 orders with pleasure. 
 
TOM AND JERRY 
 
 Jerry in Training for a Swell. 
 
 Now Jerry must needs be a swell, 
 His coat must have a swallow-tail, 
 And Mr. Snip, so handy, O, 
 Soon rigg'd him out a Dandy, O. 
 Then hey for Life and London Town, 
 To swagger Bond Street up and down, 
 And wink at every pretty maid 
 They meet in Burlington Arcade. 
 
 Tom. You've nicked it ; the fact is this, Dicky you must turn missionary. 
 Here is a young native from the country, just caught, whom you must civilise. 
 
 Fritne. Oh ! I understand. From the cut of the gentleman's clothes, I 
 presume he's lately come from the Esquimaux Islands. 
 
 Tom. Ha! ha! very good Primefit; I say, Jerry you see he's down upon you. 
 
 Jerry. Yes, he's up, he's awake, he's fly Ha ! ha ! 
 
 Tom. Now Dicky, out with your rainbow. 
 
 Prime. Here are the patterns, gentlemen, the very last fashions, every one ; 
 you can choose for yourself; but this is the colour most in vogue generally 
 greens. 
 
 Jerry. Yes, I'm told you London tailors are particularly fond of greens 
 cabbage to wit. But I am not very particular ; only let me have something 
 of this cut. (Turning round and shoiving himself J . 
 
 Tom. Oh, no, hang that cut ; the colour may fit ; but the cut never will. 
 
 Prime. By the by, if the gentleman's in a hurry, I've a suit of clothes in 
 my carriage, that I was about to take home to the Marquis of Squander, 
 which I think will fit him exactly. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Tom. Eh, the Marquis of Squander just Jerry's diameter ; why that will 
 be the very thing. Let it be laid on the table directly. 
 
 Prime. Young man, bring that there bundle, into this here room. 
 (Regular brings on bundle) . You will find these perfectly comme il faut, 1 can 
 assure you. 
 
 Tom. Come, Jerry, cast your skin peel slip into the swell case at once, 
 my boy are you up ? 
 
 Jerry. Peel ! oh, I know I'm down, Tom, I'm fly. 
 
 Tom. Come, Dicky, put him all right screw him into them. 
 
 Prime. You may rely upon me, Mr. Corinthian. 
 
 (Jerry in fitted with Coat and Waistcoat ; meantime, Tom and Regular box 
 with gloves. When Jerry is dressed he struts along the front of the stage). 
 
 Jerry. A tight fit, not much hunting room, no matter, there, Tom I'm 
 all fly. 
 
 Tom. I knew Dicky would finish him, There's not a better snyder in 
 England, taking Nugee, Dollman, the Baron, and Rowlands into the bargain 
 against him. That will do now then Dicky, mizzle ! be scarce ! broom. 
 
 Prime. Wouldn't intrude a moment, gentlemen, good morning order my 
 carriage, there, John I'll just take an ice, and then for the Duke. [Uxit. 
 
 Jerry. The Duke and an ice cursed cool if these are the London tailors, 
 what must be their customers ? 
 
 log. It's the blunt that does it blunt makes the man, Jerry. 
 
 Jerry. Blunt ! I'm at fault again. 
 
 Tom. Explain, Bob 
 
 Log. Blunt, my dear boy, is in short what is it not ? It's every thing now 
 o'days to be able to flash the screens sport the rhino show the needful 
 post the pony nap the rent stump the pewter tip the brads and down 
 with the dust, is to be at once good, great, handsome, accomplished, and 
 everything that's desirable money, money, is your universal God, only get 
 into Tip Street, Jerry. 
 
 Tofn. Well, come let's make a start of it where shall we go ? No matter. 
 I commit him to your care, Bob use him well, remember he is not out of 
 pupil's straits, and musn't be blown up at point nonplus yet. 
 
 Jei^y. Why on London points I confess I am miserably ignorant. But 
 for anything in the country, now such as leaping a five-barred gate, jumping 
 a ditch, trotting my pony against anything alive, wrestling, cudgelling, or 
 kissing in the ring, depend on it, Tom, you'll find me fly. 
 
 Log. He's a fine-spirited youth, and will soon make a tie of it with us 
 we'll start first to the show shop of the metropolis, Hyde Park ! promenade 
 it down the grand strut, take a ride with the pinks in Rotten Row, where 
 dukes and dealers in queer heavy plodders and operators noblemen, and 
 yokels barber's clerks, coStard-mongers swell coves, and rainbows, all 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 7 
 
 jostle one another ; then we'll have a stroll through Burlington Arcade, peep 
 in at Tattersal's, and finish as fancy leads us. 
 
 Tom. Bravo ! Hyde Park! Burlington Arcade ! nothing can be better. 
 
 Log. No ; Arcades are all the go now. 
 
 SONG. 
 
 Air. " Carnival of Venice.''^ 
 
 Bazaars have long since had their day, 
 
 Are common grown and low ; 
 And now, at powerful Fashions sway. 
 
 Arcades are all the go. 
 Then lefs to Piccadilly haste. 
 
 And wander through the shade ; 
 And half an hour of pleasure taste. 
 
 In Burlington Arcade. 
 
 Tom. Now, my dear Jerry, to introduce you to another scene of Life 
 in London ; you have taken a ride among the pinks in Rotten Row, have 
 dipped into the Westminster pit, sported your blunt ^with the flue-fakers and 
 gay tyke boys on the phenomenon monkey* seen that gamest of all buffers, 
 Rumpty-tum, with the rats ; and now you can make assignation with some 
 of our dashing straw-chippers and nob-thatchers in Burlington Arcade; 
 This is the very walk of Cupid and here 
 
 [Jane slips the letter into his hand and runs off. 
 
 Tom. I say, you messenger of Cupid hey, why zounds, she's bolted ! 
 
 Log. You'll give chase, Tom ? 
 
 Tom. To be sure I will, Bob. 
 
 Jerry. I see her, clearing the corner of yonder street I'm not at fault now. 
 
 Toin. Tip us the view hallo ! then, Jerry. 
 
 Jerry. Yoicks ! yoicks ! Exeunt Omnes. 
 
 *An Italian Turn-up. 
 
 Surprising Novelty in the Sporting Circle. 
 
 On Tuesday next, at Seven o'Clock in the Evening, 
 
 A special grand combat will he decided at the 
 
 WESTMINSTER PIT, 
 
 FOR ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS, 
 
 Between the extraordinary and celebrated creature, the famed 
 Italian Monkey : 
 
 Jacco Maccacco, 
 
 And a Dog of 2olbs. weight, the property of a Nobleman 
 well-known in the circle. 
 
i8 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 SCEN'E.TattersaWs. Grooms, Jockeys, Fs Yorkshire'Coves, 
 
 SOLO AND CHORUS. 
 
 Air.*- Gee ho, Bobbin.'' 
 
 Grooms, Jockies, and Chaunters, to TattersaVs bring, 
 Your lame and blind spavined prads in a string. 
 Knowing ones, that have no legs to go on, may scoff, 
 But we I's Yorkshire coves here can make them go off. 
 
 Gee ho. Bobbin ! Gee ho, Bobbin ! 
 
 Gee ho, Bobbin ! Gee up, and gee ho ! 
 
 Cope. Well, Master Gull' em, do you think we shall get the flat-catcher oft 
 to-day ? 
 
 Gul. As sure as your name is Simon Cope, only wait till the flats come 
 have you given his pedigree to Tattersall? 
 
 Cope. Yes ; and he's promised to put him up first. 
 
 Gul. Mind, you're the seller, I'm the bidder hallo ! here's three swells 
 coming this way that one in the middle, looks like a flat, we must try it on 
 upon him. 
 
 Cope. Hush ! don't let's appear to know one another. 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC. 
 
 Tom. Confound the little gipsy, she has fairly given us the slip, by Jupiter 
 however, the assignation must be attended to. Almack's ! smacks well. 
 You are now at Tattersall's, Jerry, a very worthy fellow, who made his fortune 
 by a horse called Highflyer. In remembrance of whom the following epitaph 
 was written : 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Here Lieth 
 
 The perfect and beautiful symmetry 
 
 Of the much-lamented 
 
 HIGHFLYER ; 
 
 By whom, and his wonderful offspring, 
 
 The celebrated Tattersall acquired a noble fortune, 
 
 But he was not ashamed to acknowledge it. 
 
 In gratitude to this famous 
 
 Stallion 
 
 He called an elegant mansion he built 
 
 Highflyer Hall. 
 
 Jerry. Hum ! and if one may iudge from the splendour and extent of his 
 premises, he seems to be no small highflyer himself. 
 
 Tom. You are right, Jerry I shall here buy a bit of cavalry that is a prad, 
 on your judgment. 
 
 Jerry. You'll not find me at fault here, depend on't. 
 
 Tom. What you're up, eh ? 
 
 Jerry. Yes, quite fly, depend on't. 
 
 Gul. I beg pardon, gemmen want to buy a prad ? here's one a gentleman 
 wants to sell you can't have a better, Sir ; here, you Bob, bring him out. 
 There's action for you there's one to tip 'em the go-bye at a mill, there's 
 earth-stoppers quiet to drive, quiet in harness, trots fifteen miles in less 
 than an hour. Warranted sound he would be cheap at a hundred, and I 
 shouldn't wonder if he was to go for thirty. 
 
 Jerry. Ah, thirty-pence two-and-six-pence, I wouldn't have him at a gift. 
 
 Log. He may be a good one to go but he's a rum one to look at one of 
 my Lord Cagmag's sort, he always drives two puffers, a stumbler, and a blinker. 
 
 Gul. (To Cope), These chaps are awake ; it wont suit. 
 
 Coj)e. Never mind, we shall meet a flat presently. 
 
 Tat. (Who has now mounted the rostrumj. Now, gentlemen, we'll proceed 
 to business. The first article I have to offer to your notice is that prime 
 
 C 2 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Yorkshire stallion Bite he was got by Blackleg out of Greenhorn what 
 shall I say, gentlemen, for this beautiful and most serviceaV^le animal ? he is 
 rising five, next grass warranted sound perfect in all his paces. 
 
 Tom. Nine pence. 
 
 Tat. Oh, Sir! (To/m-y). What do you say, Sir ? 
 
 Jerry, Why, if you'll put his other eye in, I'll give you three halfpence a 
 pound for him. 
 
 Log. Let's be off, Tom Come, Jerry. [Exit Tom, Jerrxj, and Logic. 
 
 Tat. Come, gentlemen, will nobody be a bidder. 
 
 Enter JEMMY GREEN. 
 Green. Yes, I'll bid I'll bid. Mr. Green from the City. I wants an 
 'orse, and I like the looks of that 'ere hanimal amazingly, and I'm no bad 
 judge, I tell you that. 
 
 Gul. Here's a customer, by jingo. It's booked. Mr. Green's the pur- 
 chaser. (Aside) That's a famous horse, that there, Sir I mean to have him 
 at any price. 
 
 Green. I don't know that. Mister, 
 
 Gul. I must clench it at once fifteen pounds for that 'ere horse. 
 
 Green. Twenty pounds, Mr. Hauctioneer. 
 
 Cope. Begpardon,Sir,but you can't have a better horse, and he's cheap at fifty. 
 
 Green. I am wery much obliged to you for your adwice but I happens to 
 know what an 'orse is I'm not a hana ! I'll have him, but I shan't go further 
 nor forty. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 I Gul. Five and twenty pounds. 
 
 ,| Green. Thirty. 
 
 [: Tat. Thirty pounds ; any advance upon thirty pounds ? 
 
 :; Green. Yes, five more. 
 
 ;i Tat. Thankye, Sir; thirty-five. 
 
 'I Gul. Thirty-six my regular. 
 
 L Green. Thirty-seven, my regular. 
 
 Wjg Gul. Thirty-nine. 
 
 ^B| Green. Thirty-nine, for me too. 
 
 ^Hf Tat. It's against you, Mr. Green. 
 
 Green. Against me is it? vy I bid as much as him. Veil, forty ! 
 
 Tat. For forty pounds, have you all done at forty ? last time at forty 
 forty going for forty ! going going gone ! Mr. Green, he's yours. 
 
 Green. I've bought him ! 
 
 Tat. You have indeed, Sir ! 
 
 Green. Here's your money. Sir Mr. Green, from Tooley Street you'll 
 find two twenties ! and I'm wery much obliged to you for your serwility. 
 
 Cope. You don't want a civil honest lad to lead him home for your honour, 
 do you. Sir? 
 
 Green. No thank'ye, I'm not going to trust an hanimal like that with no- 
 body but myself. Can nobody have the goodness to lend me a bit of rope, 
 to get him along vith ? 
 
 Cope. No we've got you in a line, and that's quite enough. {Aside) You 
 bought him too cheap, to have rope with him, Sir ; but here's a hay-band, 
 that will do perhaps. 
 
 Green. An ay-band oh, ah ; an ay-band will do very well, do you think 
 I can get him as far as Tooley Street, vith this ? 
 
 Cope. Oh, yes, Sir, he's as quiet as a lamb, and a famous hunter. 
 Green. An unter ! I've taken 'em all in ; I've bought an unter ! 
 Cope. Ah, and nothing but a good one neither such a one to clear a gate. 
 Green. Vot? clear a gate! vy, then, I sha'n't have to pay no turnpikes! How 
 pleased they'll be in Tooley Street, when I tell's my pa I've bought an unter ! 
 
 Gul. We'll get something more out of him yet. (Aside to Cope). So you 
 think, you have bought that 'ere horse, do you Mister ? Now, I say, I've 
 bought him. {To Green) 
 
 Green. You bought him ? that's a good un ! but I'm not to be taken in in 
 this here manner ! --if you bought him-, I paid for him, thai's all I know. 
 
 Gul, I say I bought him, and the horse is mine. 
 
 Green. I say as how yo u are a wery unpurlite gentleman. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Cope. Oh gentlemen, I'm sorry to see you quarrel. (To GtdVem)L^\.v\Q 
 speak to the gentleman, and I'll convince him. (To Green) ^\x, if you'll 
 give me one pound note, I'll swear you bought him, and that the horse is yours. 
 
 Green. Sir, I'm virery much obliged to you, you're werry purlite ; and as I 
 don't mind a von pound note, and vishes to 'ave that 'ere hanimal all to my- 
 self, vy. there's the money. 
 
 Cope. I've done him. [To GulVemj. Oh, the horse belongs to this gentle- 
 man, I savi^ him pay for it. 
 
 Green. To be sure he did. 
 
 Gul. Oh, if you paid for him you certainly bought him. 
 
 Green. Certainly ; I'm glad it's all settled : I think as how I may as veil 
 i-idehim home. Vill you please to assist me to mount? (GulVm puts him 
 xoxth Ins face to the horse'' s tail). 
 
 Green. Holloa ! vy the horse's head's behind. Turn him round, if you 
 please, young man. Come no tricks. (They turn the horse round) . Vy the 
 horse's head is behind yQi. ( Green jumps off his back). 1 see you are going 
 it, but I'm not to be had I'm a knowing von ! I shall lead him home myself. 
 Good morning, gentleman, I thank you for all your serwilities. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 23 
 
 Jarvey ! Here am I, ye'r honour. 
 SCENE. Ei/de Park Corner. 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC. 
 Tom. Ha! ha ! ha! was there ever such a flat as that Mr. Green? we 
 can buy no prad to-day, Jerry ; we must go when some gentlemen's stud is 
 selHng ; and while the dealers are running down the cattle, we can get a 
 prime good one for a song. But now for Almack's the highest Life in 
 London ! and see what game Cupid has sprung up for us in that quarter. 
 
 Jerry. I long to be there, let's hasten to dress at once. 
 
 Log. Aye ; call a rattler. 
 
 Jerry. A rattler ! I'm at fault again. 
 
 Log. A rattler is a rumbler, otherwise a jarvey ! better known perhaps by 
 the name of a hack ; handy enough in wet weather, or a hurry. 
 
 Jerry. A hack ! If it is the thing we rattled over the stones in to-day, it 
 might more properly be called a bone-setter. 
 
 Tom. Or bone-breaker But if you dislike going in a hack, we'll get you 
 a mab. 
 
 Jerry. A mab ! I'm at fault again never shall get properly broken in. 
 
 Tom. A mab isa jingling jarvey ! a cabriolet Jerry but we must mind our 
 flash doesn't peep out at Almack's. 'Tis classic ground there ; the rallying 
 spot of all the rank, wealth, and beauty in the metropolis ; the very atmo- 
 sphere of it is 
 
24 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Bang-up of the Big Wigs. 
 
 Jerry. Rather different to that of Rum-ti-tum and the rats. I should 
 imagine. 
 
 Tom. A shade or two ! we must be on our P's and Q's there forget the 
 Phenomenon and the Fancy. If you find me tripping, Jerry, whisper Lethe 
 to bury it in oblivion ; and, if necessary, I'll do the same kind office for you. 
 
 Jerry. Ten thousand thanks ! 
 
 Log. Come along, then. Now, Jerry, chivey ! 
 
 Jerry. Chivey? 
 
 Log. Mizzle? 
 
 Jerry. Mizzle? 
 
 Log. Tip you rags a gallop ! 
 
 Jerry. Tip my rags a gallop ? 
 
 Log. Walk your trotters ! 
 
 Jerry. Walk my trotters ? 
 
 Log. Bolt ! 
 
 Jerry. Bolt? oh, aye ! I'm fly now. You mean go. Exeunt Omnes 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 25 
 
 Almack's in the West. 
 
 If once to Almack's you belong, 
 Like Monarch's you can do no wrong ; 
 But banished thence on Wednesday night, 
 By Jove, you can do nothing right. 
 
 Ladies, your most humble servants, 
 Tom and Jerry stands before you. 
 
 Our blood is thrilling, you're so killing ; 
 At once we love you and adore you. 
 
 Let us softly sit beside you ; 
 
 Trust us, you will quickly own, 
 That love's alarms hath sweeter charms 
 
 Than joys e'er yet to mortal known. 
 
 SCENE. Ahnack^s brilliantly illuminated Duchess of Diamonds, Countess 
 Conversatione, Princess Fulmante, Lady Eastend, Baron Rufus, Sir Tilbury 
 Unit, and Company discovered. 
 
 Enter KATE, SUE, JANE, and TRIFLE. 
 Sue. I do not see them yet. 
 
 Kate. I can depend upon Corinthian ; and I think you may upon your 
 lover. In the meantime, let us have a minuet to dissipate our ennui. 
 
 Enter GREEN, in ball dress. 
 Green. Aye, aye, a minivit to dissipate our ong vee, by all means. 
 
26 THE HISTORV OF 
 
 Sue. As I live, Trifle, here is that Mr. Green, to whom you introduced us. 
 
 Trifle. Aye, aye, from the City. We find these City folks these Greens 
 excessively useful in money matters, pan hanour. How are you my dear 
 fa-el-low. 
 
 Sue. Your servant, Mr. Green. 
 
 Green. Ladies, your most dewoted. Mr. Trifle, your humble Oh, this is 
 the master of the ceremonies, and those are the two that's to dance the 
 gavotte. Yes, that's V^'AWspermitty moy. (Takes Kate and Sue's arms). 
 
 Kate. Eh, bless me, Mr. Green, what is the matter ? Why, you seem quite 
 out of spirits ; I hope nothing has happened to Mrs. Green or any of the 
 little Greens. 
 
 Green. Oh, no, nothing ; but you labour under a mistake quite entirely ; 
 there is no Mrs. Green I am not an 'appy man yet ! There are no little 
 Greens, neither no young sprouts, I assure you. No, I'm out of spirits 
 because I have been dished and doodled out of forty pounds to-day ; I have 
 been taken in by the purchase of an 'orse at Tattersall's It was a very fine 
 looking hanimai but before I got him home, the cursed creature went upon 
 three legs Dragg'd the other behind him, like a pendulum. 
 
 Kate. My dear Mr. Green, will you join in a dance ? 
 
 Green. Oh, dear no I couldn't think of such a thing I never danced but 
 once, and then I was so excruciated with termidity that I tipped up my 
 partner, lost one of my shoes, and diskivered an ole in my stocking. 
 
 Kale. Oh, horrid, how could you support the shock ? But here is a lady 
 who is absolutely pining for the honour of your hand. 
 
 Green. Veil, if she'll instruct me when I'm out, I don't mind making one 
 in a quod-reel. 
 Sue. That's well said hey, here they are, now, my dear Trifle. 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC, full dressed. 
 
 Tom. At length, my dear Jerry, we are at Almack's, though egad I began 
 to think we should be too late. 
 Jerry. This indeed is a splendid view of Life in London. 
 
 Tom. It is ; the tip-top ! set off to the best advantage, by the best dresses, 
 finished by the best behaviour. (Trifle quizzes through glass up stage) . 
 
 Log. Yes, witness that puppy, staring us out of countenance with his 
 quizzing glass yonder why don't he wear green specs, as I do, if his 
 ogles are queer. 
 
 Tom. LETHE ! LETHE ! my dear Bob you forget where you are. 
 
 Jerry. The half-and-half coves are somewhat different from the swaddles, 
 and gay tykeboys, at the dog pit Eh, Tom ? 
 
 Tom. Lethe ! Lethe ; my dear Jerry mum ! 
 
 Trijle. My dear fa-el-Iow, you really must excuse my interrupting you 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 27 
 
 but what can you possibly have been preaching to your friend from the country 
 so long here are three lovely girls waiting to be introduced to you relations 
 of mine, the Honourable Miss Trifles' we must make up a quadrille. 
 
 Tom. Three girls, Jerry ! Do you hear that? 
 
 Jerry. I'm up 
 
 Trifle. I'm not equal to the fatigue of an introduction myself, but my 
 friend Green from the City here, will oblige me by taking the trouble off my 
 hands. 
 
 Green. Vith the greatest of pleasure the Honourable Miss Trifle 
 Mr. Corinthian. The Honourable Miss S. Trifle. Mr. Hawthorn. the 
 Honourable Miss J. Trifle Doctor Logic. 
 
 Ceremony of introduction taJces place. 
 
 Jerry. What divinities ! but I say, Tom, this girl is as like my Sue, as 
 yet it can't be. 
 
 Tom. And this one is as like my Kate as one pea is like another I could 
 have betted every rap six quid to four 
 
 Jerry. Lethe, Tom, Lethe, L-E-T-H-E. (Spelling itj. 
 
 Torn. The retort courteous I own it. 
 
 Green. Excuse my hinterfering, my dear fellows, but ve're just going to 
 make up a quod-reel, and vant you to join us. 
 
 Torn. Ah ! ah ! a quadrille by all means you'll dance, Jerry ; 
 
 Jerry. I know nothing about quadrilles, Tom but the deuce is in it if I 
 can't cut as good a figure as this Mister Jemmy Green, so I don't care if I do 
 kick up my heels a bit. 
 
 Green. Aye, a dance, a dance. 
 
 After dance, Jerry advances with Sue. 
 
 Jerry. Sweet girl ! may I be permitted to hope that the partnership of this 
 evening may lead to one for life ? 
 
 Sue. Ah ! Sir, a dance affords you gallant gentlemen worlds of latitude for 
 flattery and deceit. 
 
 Jerry. Nay, I am sincere, by heaven ! 
 
 Sue. Come, Sir, they are about to waltz, and if you wouldn't have my head 
 as giddy as you seem to think my heart is, you will conduct me to a seat. 
 
 Jerry. With rapture ! This is, indeed, Life in London. 
 
28 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 SCENE. Tom Oribb's parlour. Swell coves, 3Iilhrs, (^c, drinking and 
 blowing their clouds; Tom, Jerry, Orcen, and Logic among them. Gribb 
 in the chair. Chorus (Omnes) . 
 
 Air." Oh^ who has not heard of a Jolly Young Waterman.'^' 
 
 Oh, who has not heard of our gallant black diamond^ 
 Who once down at Hungerford us' d for to ply ? 
 
 His mawleys he us'd with such skill and dexterity, 
 Winning each mill, and making each miller fly ! 
 ^ He fibyd so neat he stopped so steadily ; 
 
 He Jiit so straight he floored so readily. 
 In every game "'twas the Gribb won it fair ; 
 
 He's Ghampion of England, and now fills the chair. 
 
 Gribb. Thank" ye, gentleman, thank 'ye but as I see by our sporting oracle, 
 "The Dispatch," there's a mill on foot I'll give you, '^ May the 
 best man win.'''' 
 
 (All dr'mkj. May the best man win, Qreen. May the best man vin. 
 
 Log. With all my heart ; but, zounds ! we've almost buzz'd the bowl. 
 Let's have another, and dy'e hear, Tom, serve it up in your prize cup ; Jerry 
 hasn't seen it, and we mustn't omit that. 
 
 Gribb. With 
 see the cup. 
 
 all my heart, Doctor ; but you must stand a bottle to 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 29 
 
 Log. Yes, yes, I'll stand a bottle to christen the cup. 
 
 Jerry. Aye, aye ; I'll stand a bottle, Tom. 
 
 Tom. Ditto for me. 
 
 Green. Yes, and I'll stand a bottle of ditto, too. 
 
 Jerry. This may, indeed, be called the very Temple of the Fancy. 
 
 Log. Yes, and here are some of the finest fancy sketches in the 
 kingdom. 
 
 Tom. Well, Jerry, after our last night's divertisement at Almack's, the set- 
 to I gave you this morning at the great Commissary-General Jackson's rooms 
 cannot be better followed up than by a turn in the sporting parlour of 
 honest Tom Cribb. 
 
 Cribb. Thank'ye, Mr. Corinthian ; I'll always do my best to satisfy you in 
 any way. 
 
 Tom. There is one way, Tom, in which you would very soon satisfy us. 
 
 Jerry. Yes, and I'm thinking not a little to our dis-satisfaction. I am of 
 opinion that every gentleman should practice the art of self defence, if it wexQ 
 only to protect him from the insults of vulgar ignorance ; though I by 
 no means set myself up as a champion for boxing. 
 
 Log. No, for if you did we've a champion here who would set you down. 
 We'll drink his health, and may he ever prove as successful as when he floor'd 
 the Black Miller at Thistleton Gap. (All drinkj. 
 
 Tom. Tom, your health. (Cribb rises) . Silence for Tom's speech doff 
 your castor, Tom that's the time of day. 
 
 Cribb. Gentlemen, my humble duty to you. Here's all your healths, and 
 your families. Bless your soul, I can claim no merit for what I've done ; 
 fighting came naturally like, and thinking others might be as fond of it 
 as myself, why, I always gave them a bellyfull. 
 
 Tom. Bravo, Tom, an excellent speech Cicero never spoke better. 
 
 Log. No, nor anything like it. 
 
 Tom. Oh, here comes the cup. Look out, Jerry. 
 
30 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Cribb's Parlour.* 
 
 ^nter WAITER, with the Champioii's Cup. 
 Come, Tom I pledge you. (Cribb drinks ; the Cup is passed). 
 
 Jerry. Well, this is the pleasantest way of cupping a man I ever heard of 
 but come. Bob, give us a song. 
 
 * Tom Cribb, born at Hanham, Gloucestershire, July 8, 1781. His last fight was 
 with Molineux, a black, for ;^6oo, at Thistleton Gap, September 28, 1811. Presented by 
 the Sporting World with a cup of the value of eighty guineas, December 2, 1811, at the 
 Castle Tavern, Holborn. Which he received from the hands of Mr. Emery, the 
 comedian, who made the following complimentary address: "Thomas Cribb, I have 
 the honour this day of being the representative of a numerous and most respectable body 
 of your friends ; and though I am by no means qualified to attempt the undertaking 
 which has devolved on me, by a vote of the subscribers, yet the cause will, I am confident, 
 prove a sufficient excuse for my want of ability. You are requested to accept this Cup, as 
 a tribute of respect for the uniform valour and integrity you have shown in your several 
 combats, but, most particularly, for the additional proofs of native skill and manly intrepidity 
 displayed by you in your last memorable battle, when the cause rested not merely upon 
 individual fame, but for the pugilistic reputation of your native country, in contending 
 with a formidable foreign antagonist. In that combat you gave proof that the innovating 
 hand of a foreigner, when lifted against a son of Britannia, must not only be aided by the 
 strength of a Lion but the Heart also. 
 
 ''The fame you have so well earned has been by_ manly and upright conduct, and 
 [Which I have no doubt will ever mark your very creditable retirement from the ring or 
 stage of pugilism. However intoxicated the C7ip or its contents may at any future period 
 make you, I am sufficiently persuaded the gentlemen present, and the sons of John Bull 
 in general, will never consider you have a cnfi too much." 
 
 Tom Cribb took a farewell benefit under the auspices of the Pugilistic Association, 
 at the National Baths, Westminster Road, November 12, 1840. Died in High Street, 
 Woolwich, May 11, 1848. Monument erected to his memory in Woolwich Churchyard, 
 May I, 1851. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 3 1 
 
 Log. With all my heart, only let me sluice my whistle first. 
 
 SONG. Logic. Air. " Such a beauty I did grow.*'' 
 
 Oh^ when I was a little hoy^ 
 
 Some thirty years ago ; 
 I proved such an anointed one, 
 
 They made me quite a show. 
 
 Chorus. Such a knowing one I did grow. 
 At tea I stole the sugar, 
 
 And I slyly pinched the girls ; 
 I roasted mamnu/s parrot, 
 
 Shod the cat in ivalnut shells. 
 
 Such a knoiving, ^-c. 
 At school I play' d the truant, 
 
 And would robbing orchards go ; 
 I burned my master's cane and rod, 
 
 And tore the fools' -cap, too. 
 
 Such a knowing, ^c. 
 As I learnt nought but mischief there. 
 
 To College T was sent, 
 Where I learn'd to game and swear, 
 
 On fun and frolic bent. 
 
 Such a knowing, ^c. 
 In town I miWd the Charlies, 
 
 Aim'd at all within the ring ; 
 Became one of the fancy. 
 
 And was up to everything. 
 
 Such a knowing, &c. 
 
 Jerry. Bravo ! but, zounds ! Tom, Tom I what are you musing so 
 profoundedly about ? 
 
 Tom. I was thinking about the women, Jerry ; those enchanting girls we 
 danced with a Almack's could they be the incognitas that challenged us 
 thither? There is some secret charm about those girls that hasn't allowed me 
 to rest all night. 
 
 Jerry. Well, and do you know, Tom, to tell you the truth, I haven't been 
 a whit better than yourself. But, I say, only see how confoundedly the dust- 
 man's getting hold of Logic, we'll funk him. (Tom and Jerry smoke Logic). 
 
 Log. Oh, hang your cigars, I don't like it ; let's have no funking. 
 
 Torn. Well, come, come, rouse up ; don't be crusty. Bob let's start on 
 some spree ; no doubt we shall spring a lark somewhere. (Rattles heard). 
 There's one ! go it, Jerry ! Come, Green. 
 
 Log. Aye, come, Jerry, there's the Charlies' fiddles going. 
 Jerry. Charlie's fiddles ! I'm not fly. Doctor. 
 
 Log. Rattles, Jerry, rattles ! you're fly now, I see. Come along, Tom ! 
 Go it, Jerry ! Exit. 
 
32 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Night Scene. Tom and Jerry upsetting the Charlies. 
 
 HARK ! the watchman springs his rattle, 
 Now the midnight's lark begun ; 
 
 Boxes crashing, lanthorns smashing, 
 Mill the Charlies oh ! what fun. 
 
 Pigs are hauling, girls are bawling, 
 Wretch, how durst you bang me so, 
 
 My sconce you've broken for your joking. 
 You shall to the watch-house go. 
 
 SCENE. The City side of Temple Bar, by Moonlight. Watchbox Watch- 
 men crying the hour at different parts of the stage. 
 
 Enter drunken BUCK. 
 
 Bu^k, Steady ! steady ! now where shall I go ? I think I'll go strait 
 home. {Reels.) No, I won't ! I'll go where I think proper I'll go out 
 again I'll go where I like. 
 
 (Exit.) 
 Enter GAS-LIGHT MAN, who lights the Lamp. 
 
 SONG.-Gas. 
 
 Air. " Vm Jolly Dick the Lamplighter.'^ 
 
 I'm saucy Jack, the gas-light man^ 
 I put the prigs to rout; 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 33 
 
 For where I light do all they can, 
 They'' re sure to he found out. 
 
 Your heaks and traps are fools to me, 
 For in the darkest night ; 
 
 ' Tis I that lets the people see. 
 And bring their tricks to light. 
 
 The City Watchman. 
 
 Enter O'BOOZLE.-C HAUNT. 
 
 (Exit 
 
 Past twelve o'clock a mooU'light night ! 
 Past twelve o^ clock and the stars shine bright ! 
 Past twelve o'clock your doors are all fast like you! 
 Past twelve o'clock and Pll soon be fast too ! 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Re-enter BUCK. 
 
 Buck. Past two did you say, Watchey ? didn't think it had been half so 
 late I think it's time for me to go home to bed. 
 
 O'Booz. Why, yes, I thinks as how it is, Sir you've been taking a little 
 too much refreshment steady ! steady ! hold up, Sir, 
 
 {Pretends to assist him, and picks his pocket of his handkerchief). 
 
 Buck. Good night, old Clockey. (Reels off). 
 
 O'Booz. Good night. Sir take care nobody robs your honour. Why, the 
 gentleman's left his vipe behind him, and I musn't go off my beat to give it 
 him: how unfortinate I'll call him back! Sir, Sir. (Whispers). Bless 
 my soul how wery deaf that ere gentlemen is ! well I must take care of it 
 for him till he calls again ! I don t know what would become of these here 
 young chaps if it wasn't for such old coveys as we are Oh, here comes that 
 cursed Gas ! 
 
 Re-enter GAS. 
 
 Gas. Well, Watchey, and what have you to say about the gas ? Eh ? 
 
 O'Booz. Why, that you have been the ruin of our calling that's all ! 
 
 Qas. Pooh ! pooh ! nonsense ! I only throw a light upon the abuses of 
 it. (Pushes by Qi'Boozle). 
 
 Oi'Booz. Hollo ! you had better mind what you are at with your Jacob, or 
 I shall just (Sounds rattle). 
 
 Gas. Come, come, silence your coffee-mill. 
 
 0*Booz. What I've got to say is this yes, the matter of the business is 
 this here : Since you sprung up, my beat a'nt worth having I havn't had a 
 broken head for these ten days past, and there's no such thing as picking up a 
 couple of sweethearts now- -why there isn't a dark comer in the whole parish. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 35 
 
 Gas. No more there should be. Folks have been kept a little too long in 
 the dark. 
 
 O'Booz. Have they. 
 
 Gas. But good night, for I suppose as hovir you won't stand a drop o' 
 nothin', old Bacon-face ? 
 
 O'Booz. No, I suppose I von't stand a drop of nothing ! young Calfs- 
 head ? (Exit Gas singmg, " Pm saucy Jack^" ^c). 
 
 O'Booz. I think I've given him his change. Well I don't see the use of 
 kicking my heels about here, people's clocks can tell them the time, just as 
 well as I can, I'm sure ! and a great deal better, if they knew all ! so I shall 
 go into my box, after I've called the half-hour, and have a regular snooze. 
 It looks damned cloudy too. 
 
 CHAUNT. 
 Half-past twelve and a cloudy morning. 
 Half -past twelve mind, I give you warning. 
 Half -past twelve now Fm off to sleep ! 
 And the morning soon my watch will keep ! 
 
 (Goes into box and falls asleep) . 
 
 D 2 
 
36 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Tom, Jerry, and Logic in a Row. 
 
 MERCY! what a din and clatter 
 Breaks the stillness of the night. 
 
 Lamps do rattle 'tis a battle, 
 Quick, and let us see the sight. 
 
 Old and young at blows like fury, 
 Tom and Jerry leads the row, 
 
 Milling, flooring all before them, 
 This is Life in London, boys. 
 
 Enter KATE <nid SUE cUsr/uiscd as two young bucks. 
 
 Kate. Well, here we are, just before them and now to cure them of their 
 love and rambling it must be our plan to involve them in all the scrapes we 
 can, we shall never have a better opportunity. 
 
 Sue. No, 'tis now the very witching hour of night, as Shakspere says. 
 
 SONG. Kate. 
 
 Air." Achee oh ! Ackee oh ! " 
 
 When the moon o^er Temple Bar 
 
 Glimmers slow, and gaslights glow ; 
 And locked in sleep, grave big tvigs are 
 Snoring sound asleep. 
 
 We for pleasure gaily run, 
 Full of frolic, full of fun ; 
 Whisking oh ! frisking oh ! 
 To pick up a beau. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 37 
 
 Sue. Stand aside, my dear Kate, I see occasion, for our being active here ! 
 If I may trust my eyes, yonder comes a lovely girl I must have some spoi-t 
 with her. 
 
 Enter MRS. TARTAR. 
 
 3Irs. T. There, I've shut up the shop, and as it's Mr. Tartar's turn to sit 
 as constable of the night, I'll just take him the street-door key, and then he 
 can let himself in when he pleases I hope the dear man won't be long. 
 
 Kate. Never mind, ma'am, if he should be anything in my power 
 
 2Iri. T. Keep your distance, sir I'll call the watch. 
 
 8m. Nay, but my dear madam, when beauty like yours is neglected, it is 
 the duty of every man. (Kisses her J. 
 
 Mrs. T. Don't take liberties, sir. 
 
 Kate. I wouldn't take liberties for the world. (Kisses her J. 
 
 Mrs. T. Eh, I shall be ruin'd, I'll call out here, watch ! watch ! 
 
 (Itattles heard). 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC, with Umbrella. 
 
 Jerry. Ay, ay, ay, put down the rain napper. Doctor, the shower is over 
 now. What's the matter ? 
 
 Mrs. T. I'm in the greatest distress imaginable. 
 
 Tom. Holloa, what's the row? a woman in distress! Where's the man 
 would refuse his assistance ? 
 
 Kate. Who are you, sir ? 
 
 Sue. Yes, who are you, sir ? 
 
 Tmn. What, show fight ! I'm your man ; (To Kate). 
 
 Jerry. And I'm your man, my little one. (To Sue). 
 
 Log. (To Mrs. T.) And I'm your man, ma'am. 
 
 Mrs. T. W^atch ! watch! (Rattles are heard) . 
 
 Enter TEDDY M'LUSII, an Irish Watchman. 
 ML. Ulloa, here ! What the devil have you got a fire ? 
 Tom. What do you ask for your beaver, Charley ? 
 Mrs. T. Why, my goodness, watchman, you are quite drunk. 
 M'L. Eh, drunk are you, then I'll take care of you. 
 
 Mrs. T. But I want to give charge of these two pentlemen, who have 
 behaved in the most extravagant manner almost kissed me to death. 
 
 ML. Oh, you want to charge these gentlemen in an extravagant manner, 
 for almost kissing them to death, do you ? but I'll soon put a stop to it. 
 
 Kate. That's right, watchman. 
 
38 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Tom. Zounds ! fellows, do you think we're to be bullied in this fashion ? 
 M'L. Oh, you're bullies dressed in the fashion, are you ? 1 11 soon take 
 charge of ye. 
 
 (Springs rattle it is ansivcred tvithout, R. and lJ. 
 
 Tom. A surprise ! I'll make sure of this fellow, at all events. Now, Jerry, 
 I'll show you how to box a Charley' 
 
 Log. Stop, my boys, secure your tattlers. (They put up their watches), 
 
 Tom. Now, go it, Jerry, can you play at cricket? 
 Jerrg. Yes, Tom. 
 
 Tom. Then catch here's the gentleman's toothpicker, and here's his glim. 
 
 (Throw stick and lanthorn to Jerry). 
 
 Tom upsets O^Boozles box. enter Watchmen. General row Rattles Logic 
 M^Lush. Kate, Mrs. Turtar and Sue, run off. Green enters with a 
 bloody nose and two watchmen; he runs off. Jtrrg fights with three watchmen, 
 Tom fights with three watchmen^ floors them, 
 
 CHORUS. (OmnesJ. 
 Air. From the Sx>ectacle of ^' Bon Juan.''^ 
 
 Watch ! watch ! watch ! Lord hoiv theyWe bawling ! 
 
 Catch ! catch ! catch ! That's if you can. 
 Scratch ! scratch ! scratch ! Pulling and hauling 
 
 Wretch ! wretch ! wretch ! Yoti are the man. 
 Patch ! patch ! patch ! Lots of heads breaking ! 
 
 Fetch ! fetch ! fetch ! The constable, John. 
 Match I match ! match ! Match them for raking. ' 
 
 Watch ! watch ! watch ! My watch is gone. 
 
 Mill renewed. The Women get away as before. Tom and Jerry perform 
 prodigies of valour, but are at length overpowered by numbers, and borne off. 
 Green enters alarmed, flies on all sides for safety, but is at length caught up by a 
 tvatchman in his arms, and carried off. Scene closes on two watchmen cu^ng 
 one another by mistake. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 39 
 
 Tom and Jerry in Trouble after a Spree. 
 
 AND please your Worship here's three fellows 
 
 Been hammering of us all about ; 
 Broke our boxes, lanthorns, smellers, 
 
 And almost clos'd our peepers up. 
 
 Our pipkins broke. Sir ! 'tis no joke, vSir, 
 Faith we're crush'd from head to toe ; 
 
 We're not the men, Sir ! Hold your tongue, Sir, 
 You must find bail before you go ' 
 
 SCEIsE. Interior of St. Dunstan's Watch-house. Mr. Tartar, Constahle 
 of the Night, discovered at table ; pen, ink, %c, Watchman in attendance. 
 Noise heard uithont. Cries of " Charge ! charge /" 
 
 Mr. T. Holloa ! a charge ! I must get into my big chair, pull off my 
 night-cap, cock my wig, and look official. (Watchman opens the door, and 
 is knocked down by rush) . 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, LOGIC, WATCHMEN, KATE, JANE, SUE, 
 MRS. TARTAR, O'BOOZLE, and M'LUSH, very uproariously. MRS. 
 T AKI A.K makes signs to MV. TARTAR. 
 
 Omnes. Mr. Constable ! Mr. Constable Please your worship, this man ! 
 this woman ! 
 
 Mr. T. Silence ! silence ! Eh, the devil ! Sally Tartar, my wife ! -and 
 winking at me not to take any notice. 
 
40 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Oinnes. Please your worship I I 
 
 Mr. T. Silence ! silence ! Watchman, do you speak first. 
 Mrs. T. (aside to Tom). Be quiet I'll soon turn the tables. 
 
 ML. Plaise your honour, I have brought before your worship a most 
 notorious substitute and common street talker, who, for her foul doings, has 
 been cooped up in the Poultry Compter, as often as there are years in a 
 week. I caught her charging these honest gentlemen, fpoiniimj to Toyn and 
 Jerry) in a most impositious manner, and when I civilly axed her, how she 
 could think of getting drunk, and acting so, she called her bullies here. 
 
 (Pointing to Kate and Sue). 
 
 Kate. Zounds, fellow, you don't mean us ? 
 
 Sue. Why, you rascal, I'll twist your neck for you. 
 
 ML. Yes j they, your worship, who half murdered me first, and then 
 buried poor little Teddy O'Boozle in his box, that he mightn't prevent them 
 murdering t'other half of me ; och, they're terrible desperadoes ! 
 
 Kate. Here's a scoundrel for you ! 
 
 Mr. T. Silence ! we'll soon get to the bottom of all this. 
 
 Kate. Zounds, sirrah, we gave the charge ourselves. (To M*Lush). 
 
 M'-L. Och, murder ! 
 
 Kate. Those were the assailants. (Pointing to Tom, Jerri/, and Logic). 
 
 Mr. T. This is a very intricate affair. 
 
 il/'X. Sure, won't I be after telling you my own story : as I was going 
 my rounds quietly enough, up comes these young sparks, and gave me such 
 a maulagaran, that they knock'd me into the middle of next week besides 
 tipping me this here black eye only see how red it is ! 
 
 Mr. T. I'll soon set all to rights, first let me hear what you have to say 
 to all this, woman : these are very serious allegations. (To Mrs. Tartar). 
 Tom. Aye, aye, let the woman speak. 
 O'Booz. Oh, the woman will speak fast enough. 
 
 Mrs. T. Hold your tongue fellow. Please your worship, it's all false from 
 beginning to end it's he that's drunk ! nay, you may perceive he's so drunk 
 h cannot even give a charge doesn't know one person from the other, and 
 can scarcely stand. 
 
 M'L. Plaise your honour it's only the ague, I have it every Saturday 
 night regularly, what I've said is all true, so help me Bob, sure, she's not 
 a woman to put whiskey in a jug, and throw stones at it. 
 
 Mr. T. Why, you impudent vagabond you're drunk now instead of giving 
 charge of her, the good lady ought to have given charge of you, what 
 businesss had you off your beat, and in such a situation f 
 
 Tim and Jerry. Aye, what business had you off your beat, old Charley ? 
 
 M'L. They bate me off my beat. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 4 1 
 
 JFrs. T. I give charge of him, your worship. 
 
 Mr. T. And I take it~oflf with him to the black hole. 
 
 Tom. Aye. aye, take him up the spout. 
 
 Mr. T. My dear wife ! {Emhraces Mrs. Tartar). My dear Sally Tartar. 
 
 M^L. His wife ! Och, by the powers, then I've caught a Tartar. 
 
 Mr. T. Take him away. 
 
 2PL. Och, sure I'm the boy that cares for nobody so there's my coat, 
 there's my hat, there's my rattle and lanthorn, and to the devil I pitch the 
 whole of you. 
 
 {He is carried of). 
 
 Kate. They musn't get off so easily. {Aside). 
 
 Tom. A fortunate turn-up for us, faith. 
 
 Mr. T. Gentlemen, you are at liberty. 
 
 O'Booz. Stay, your honour, I've got a charge. This here chap {pointivg 
 to Tom) with the Roosian head of hair he comes up to me like a warment 
 
 Tom. Why, you impudent {Knocks O'Boozle down a row ensues). 
 
 Mr. T. Silence ! silence ! be quiet all of you, can't you ? 
 
 Kate. Mr. Constable, I have a charge {to O'Boozle). Watchman, there's 
 a crown what I say, swear to. 
 
 {Aside). 
 
 (J'Booz. I'll swear to anything, your honour. 
 
 Loff. What the devil's in the wind now ? 
 
 Kate. I charge those gentlemen with assaulting this young woman 
 {pointiruj to Jane) the watchman saw the whole transaction. 
 
 O'Booz. I'll swear it, your worship. 
 
 Tom. Why, zounds, fellow, I never saw the girl ! 
 
 8ue. {To Jerry). Come, sir, you can't say you never saw her. 
 
 Jerry. Why I have a recollection of seeing her somewhere, though lam 
 at fault as to the place, at present. 
 
 Kate. It's a clear case. 
 
 O^Booz. I'll swear to it, your worship ! 
 
 ROUND. (Omnes). 
 Air. " ^Twas you, Sir.'''' 
 
 ^Twas you, Sir, 'twas you. Sir ; 
 
 Your worship, it is true, Sir, 
 'Twas you that puWd the girl about, 
 
 ^Twasyou, Sir, you. 
 
42 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Untrue, Sir, untrue, Sir, 
 It was the man in blue, Sir, 
 
 'Twas he that pulled the girl about, 
 *Tis true, Sir, true. 
 
 No. no, Sir, no, no. Sir, 
 
 How can you tell lies so, Sir ? 
 
 I did not pull the girl about, 
 But I know to ho. 
 
 Mr. T. Gentlemen, here are four witnesses against you ; and 'tis my 
 painful duty to commit you, unless you can find good bail. 
 
 Totn. We'll give you leg bail. 
 
 Kate. Aye, find good bail, and mind that it is good. There's our card 
 come, watchman Come, Sir Jeremy. 
 
 Sm. Good -night Sorry to leave you in such bad company but beauty 
 calls ; we must obey. 
 
 Tom. Aye, aye, your mamma waits for you. 
 
 Zo(/. Go and get a pennyworth of elycampane. 
 
 Jernj. There's a pair of men-milliners I say ; go home and sleep under 
 the counter. 
 
 (Exeunt Sue, Kate, and watchnen). 
 
 G.C. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 43 
 
 Tom and Jerry among the "Swell Broad Coves." 
 
 AT St. James's they dine, when, flushed with new wine, 
 
 To the Gaming Tables they reel. 
 Where blacklegs and sharps, often gammon the flats, 
 
 As their pockets do presently feel. 
 
 Success at first Jerry delighted, 
 
 But ere the next morning he found 
 That his purse was most cleverly lighted 
 
 Of nearly Five Thousand Pounds. 
 
 SCENE. Interior of a fashionable Hell at theWest-end of the Town ; a 
 large looking-glass in the flat. 
 
 Enter GROOM PORTER and MARKERS. 
 
 G. Porter. Come, lads, bustle about ; play will soon begin some of the 
 Pigeons are here already, the Greeks will not be long following. 
 
 Enter KATE, SUE, TRIFLE, and GREEN, 
 
 on his nose. 
 
 the latter with a large patch 
 
 Kate. Assist us in this, my dear Trifle, and we ask no more. The card 
 we left at the Watchhouse will soon bring our sparks to demand satisfaction, 
 you and Green must act the parts of conciliators, and propose to end the 
 affair in a game of cards ; the insight you have given Green and us into all 
 the arcana of play, will enable us, with the aid of the servant, to fleece them 
 to admiration ; thus we may pursue our plan, and cure them of this first of 
 vices of Life in London, gaming ! and save their fortune from those who may 
 play for a less disinterested stake. 
 
44 I'HE HISTORY OF 
 
 Trifle. I'faith you ought to be very much obliged to me, girls, pmt /ianour, 
 for letting Green into the secret, it cost me fiteen cool thousands, demme ! 
 but I'll assist you.- -Green, my dear fa-e-llovv, take your post near the glass 
 while they're playing ; and, by the number of fingers you hold up, we shall 
 easily know how many honours they have, and every other particular. 
 
 Green, Vith the greatest of pleasure. I suppose T may hold up my thumb 
 as well as my fingers, may'nt I because they may have five honours ? you 
 know ! 
 
 Sue. Oh, certainly, Mr. Green -Ah, man, vain glorious man, how easily 
 art thou duped ? 
 
 Trifle. They come, you must mind your eye, pati, hawoxxx, Green. 
 
 Green. Oh, you shall find me quite avake I'm glad I got avayand vas'nt 
 taken to the vatchouse ; I was forc'd to give half-a-crown though. 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC. 
 
 Tom. Where is this Sir Jeremy Brag? Oh, here you are, Sir well met. 
 
 Trifle. Ah, my dear Tom, how are you ? 
 
 Green. My dear Corinthian, how do you do ? I'm glad they didn't put 
 you in the black 'ole. 
 
 Tom. Excuse me a moment, Green, I have an affair with this gentleman 
 that will not admit of a moment's delay. 
 
 Trifle. What, my friend, Brag, -honest Sir Jeremy ? You musn't hurt 
 him, he's a cursed good fellow. -It must be some mistake. 
 
 Green. Yes, it must be some mistake. 
 
 Kate. Entirely a mistake, I assure you I'm extremely sorry, if that will 
 give you any satisfaction. 
 
 Tom. Oh, if you apologize, I'm satisfied ; otherwise nothing would have 
 done, but Chalk Farm ! pistols ! half-past six ! pooh ! 
 
 Log. That's the time of day my flower. 
 
 Green. Veil, I'm glad it's settled without bloodshed Chalk Farm! pistols! 
 half-past six, and pooh ! 
 
 Jerry, {to Green). Sorry to see your nose in mourning. Green here, 
 Waiter, take my hat. {Gives waiter the Charley's old heaver to take care of, 
 who brushes it up ironically , and takes it off). 
 
 Green. What say you to burying all differences in a friendly game of vhist ? 
 Trifle and I vill cut out. 
 
 Trifle. Yes; it's too great an exertion for me to play, imn ha7i-our I'm 
 only scarcely endurable to the fatigue of looking on, r-e-a-Uy. 
 
 Tom. A rubber at whist ? I have no objection, 
 
 .Terry. Nor I you'll not find me at fault here, coz no one is better 
 skilled in the mystery of ihe odd trick, than I am, I flatter myself. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 45 
 
 Trifle. (To Tom). Well you and your country friend can pair with Sir 
 Jeremy and the Captain, and this worthy vegetable, Green, and I will see 
 fair play, pan /inour. 
 
 (Kate, Sue, Tom and Jerri/ sit down to cards ; Trijk and Green stand behind 
 them, overlooking Tom's and Jerri/' s hand) , 
 
 Log. (Drinking and looking onj. They'll be done, as sure as my name is 
 Logic. Upon that suit some of the best judges in London have been had. 
 Inviting a man to a swell dinner, and making him pay five guineas a mouth- 
 ful for it afterwards, is no new feature of Life in London Go it, ye flats 
 " Thiis for men (he women fair,"' (singing). Why, there's that fellow giving 
 the office to his pal now : well it's no business of mine. Go it my 
 pippins what, Tom, have you got the uneasiness? " What is beauty 
 but a bait.'" (Sings again). 
 
 Tom. (Rising and throwing doivn cards). Oh, if you can't play better than 
 that, Jerry, we'd better do nothing at all ! 
 
 Log. (Singing). " Oft repented ivhen too late. '^ 
 
 Jerry. Who can play while the Doctor's singing. ? 
 
 Log. I knew how it would be did you hear anything knock, Tom ? 
 
 Jerry. (Walks about, and, by mistake, takes Logic's hat). Damn the 
 cards ! 
 
 Sue. (To Jerry). Come, sir, never be downhearted, bad luck now, 
 better another time. 
 
 Jerry. Indeed ! I'm not going to try, though. 
 
 Kate. Very sorry, Mr. Corinthian shall be happy to give you your revenge 
 some other evening ! 
 
 Log. Well, Tom, are you clean'd out? 
 
 Tom. Clean'd out ! both sides ; look here pockets to let ! here have 
 been two playing four ; and we have stood the nonsense in prime style. 
 
 Log. Well, don't grumble every one must pay for his learning- and you 
 wouldn't bilk the schoolmaster, would you ? But come, I'm getting merry ; 
 so if you wish for a bit of good truth, come with me, and let's have a dive 
 among the Cadgers in the Back Slums, in the Holy Land. 
 
 Jerry. Back Slums Holy Land ! I'm at fault again. 
 
 Log. Why, among the beggars in Dyot Street, St. Giles's. 
 
 Tom. Beggars ! ah, we shall be very good figures for the part. (Turning 
 out his pockets) . 
 
 Log. We must masquerade it there. 
 
 Kate. (To Sue, aside). And so must wc come. Trifle, 
 
 \_Exeunt Omnes. 
 
46 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
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 Billyh Waters, Soldier Snke, Ragged Dick, Little Jemmy. 
 
 There's a difference between a beggar and a queen, 
 
 And the reason I'll tell you why ; 
 A queen cannot swagger, not get drunk like a beggar 
 
 Nor be half so happy as I, as I. 
 
 SCENE Back Slums in the Holy Land. 
 
 MR. JENKINS, SOLDIER SUKE, DINGY BET, LITTLE JEMMY, 
 CREEPING JACK, RAGGED DICK, and other well-known Characters 
 discovered. 
 
 SONG. Mr. Jenkins. 
 
 Air. " It was one Frosty Morning." 
 
 Cadgers make holiday, 
 
 Hey, for the maunder' s joys , 
 Let pious ones fast and pray. 
 
 They save us the trouble, my hoys. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 47 
 
 On the best peck and booze we'll live, 
 ^ Tisfit we their blunt should spend ; 
 
 For wJiat to us they give. 
 
 Tenfold to the saints they lend. 
 
 Bumpti bumpti bay, ^c. 
 
 With our doxies, great as a Tiirk^ 
 
 We taste all life can give ; 
 For who but a slave would voork, 
 
 When he like a prince might live ? 
 Then lustily call away, 
 
 Cadgers keep up the ball. 
 Never mind whafs to pay. 
 
 The public pays for all. 
 
 Rumpti, bumpti bay, ^c. 
 
 (Omnes Chorus the burthen of the Song dancing grotesquely ). 
 
 Omnes. Ha! ha! ha! (Billy heard without). Eh! stand aside here comes 
 Billy Waters- 
 
 Enter BILLY WATERS, dancing. 
 
 Billy. Ah ; how do you do, my darley? How you do, Massa Jenkins? I 
 drink with you. {Brinks deep : Jenkins takes the pot away). And you Massa 
 Jack, I drink wid you, too. {To Creeping Jack).YovLx: helt, your good 
 belt, ladies ! {Jack takes pot away). 
 
 Jack. I say, Billy, you're biting your name in it, 
 
 Billy, Yes, me likes to bite my name in such goot stuff as that. 
 
 Mr. J. Gemman, let's purceed to business I've got to inform you o' 
 summat. 
 
 Jack. Vat's that 'ere? 
 
 Mr. J. Vy, that 'ere, is this 'ere I begs to obsarve that the time is come 
 when you may all consider yourselves independent gemmen ; for if business 
 should fail, you can at any time retire on a pension now. 
 
 Jack. As how? 
 
 Mr. J. As how ? Vy, this as how. The Mende-ci?!^ Society, I believe they 
 call themselves, have kindly purwided a fund for us gemmen ; so, if anybody 
 offers you less nor a mag, or a duece, vy, you may say with the poet, " Who 
 vou'd his farthings bear ? ven he himself might his quivetus make vith a bare 
 Bodkin." 
 
 Omnes. Bravo ! 
 
 Billy. Dat dam goot me like dat I that Bodkin has dam goot point ! 
 
 Mr. J. It was but t'other day they took'd me up ; slapp'd a pick-ax into 
 
48 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 one of my mauleys, and shov'd a shovel into t'other, and told me to vork 
 says I, gemmen, I cant't vork, cause vy, I'm too veak so they guv'd me two 
 bob, and I bolted ! 
 
 Beggar. You did quite right ; veil, vile I can get fifteen bob a day by gam- 
 moning a maim, the devil may vork for me. If any lady or gemmen is 
 inclined for a dance, I'll nash my arm-props in a minute. (Thrown down his 
 crrUchesJ . 
 
 Billy. An I play you de tune inde key of de X, Y, Z. 
 
 Jack. We haven't had a better job a long vile nor the shabby genteel lay. 
 That, and the civil rig, told in a pretty penny Come, here's the ould toast, 
 '' Success to Cadging." 
 
 Omnes. (Brinking). Success to Cadging. 
 
 Mr. J. Does any gemman understand these here Tread Mills that have got 
 such a footing ? 
 
 Jaek. Silence ! Gemmen : I'm a-going to make a hobservation : Mr. 
 Jenkins means them there Mills as makes you vork vether there's any vork 
 or no I can only say this here, gemmens, if them there mills are encouraged, 
 it von't be vorth no body's vile to exercise vone's calling because, vy, von 
 may as veil go and vork for one's livmg at once but the subject von't bear 
 not no thinking on. 
 
 Omnes. Not by no means. (General groans). 
 
 Billy. Oh, curse a de tread mill, me no like a de " here we go up, up, up, " 
 and "down you go down, down, down," an if you no work, a great lump 
 of wood come and knock you down so (Striking Beggar o)i head with fiddle , 
 who falls down). 
 
 Beggar. Oh ! he has split my Jemmy ! 
 
 Billy. [Picking him up). Poor fellow, him werry sorry, so dere no harm 
 done. Gemman of de Noah Ark Society, as Little Jemmy here is no starter, 
 I move he be put in de chair a-top o' de table. 
 
 Omnes. Bravo ! Jemmy in the chair. {Jemmy is put on the table) 
 
 Mr. J. Silence for the cheer. 
 
 Jemmy. Gemman, I shall return thanks here's all your jolly good healths, 
 and success to flat catching. 
 
 Omnes. Bravo ! bravo ! 
 
 SONG. Mr. Jenkins, and barking chorus of Beggars. 
 MK.Bow, Wow, Wow. 
 
 That all men are beggars, 'tis very plain to see, 
 
 Tho' some they are of lowly, and some they are of high degree ; 
 
 Your ministers of state will say. they never will allow 
 
 That kings from subjects beg^ but that you know is all bow woio. 
 
 Bow wow, wow ! fol lol, &.c. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 49 
 
 Then let us cadgers be, and take in all the fiats we can. 
 Experience we know full well, my boys, it is that makes the man ; 
 And for experience all should pay, that Billy will allow. 
 And as for conscience that of old we know is all bow wow. 
 
 Bow, wow, wow ! fol lol, ^c. 
 
 Enter KATE, SUE, JANE, TRIFLE, a>?^ GREEN, disguised as Beggars. 
 
 Sue. I do not see them here yet. 
 
 Kate. They'll not belong, depend on't, have I sufficiently disfigured my 
 charms ? 
 
 Sue. Yes, they cannot surely recognise us in these disguises ? 
 
 Trifle. Dear me, a very dreadful perfume, pan hanour essence of mendi- 
 city I'm sorry I came. 
 
 Mr. J. (To QreenJ. Halloa, my little 'un ? 
 
 Green. Eh ! come you a done now ; you a done vith you. 
 
 Mr. J. Sluice your dominos vill you ? 
 
 Green. Vot ! I never plays at dominoes It's too wulgar. 
 
 Mr. J. Vy, then vash your ivories ? 
 
 Green. I've got no hiveries to vash. 
 
 Mr. J. Drink, vill you ? don't you understand Hinglish ? 
 
 Green. Eh ! drink quite a gemman, I declare. ( While Green drinks 
 Jenkins dances, expectantly). 
 
 Ragged Jack. I say, Jenkins has lamed to dance since he's been on the 
 Mill vy Jenkins you'll dance your calves into your shoes if you don't mind. 
 
 Mr. J. {To Green, looking at pot). Vy, I say, you've been eating red her- 
 rings for dinner, my young un ! 
 
 Green. I vas dry, and that's the fact on't. 
 
 Billy. {Offering Jbottle to Sue). I say. Misses, you drink, eh! my Buckra 
 Beaudly? 
 Jemmy. Gemman, have you ordered the peck and booze for the evening ? 
 
 Sold. Suke. Aye, aye, I've taken care of that shoulder of veal and garnish 
 Turkey and appendleges Parmesan Filberds Port and Madery. 
 
 Billy. Dat dam goot, me like a de Madery Landlord, here you give this 
 bag of broken wittals, vot I had give me to-day, to some genteel dog vot pass 
 your door : and you make haste wid de supper, you curse devil you ! 
 
50 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Beggar's Opera. Tom, Jerry, and Logic, among the 
 Cadgers in the Holy Land. 
 
 NOW to keep up the spree, Tom, Jerry, and Logic, 
 
 Went disguis'd to the Slums in the Holy Land ; 
 Through each cribb and each court, they hunted for sport, 
 
 Till they came to the Beggar's Opera so nam'd ; 
 But sure such a sight they had never set sight on, 
 
 The quintessence of Tag, Rag, and Bob-tail was there : 
 Outside of the door Black Molly was fighting. 
 
 And pulling Mahogany Bet by the hair. 
 There was cobblers and tailors, sweeps, cadgers, and sailors. 
 
 Enough to confound Old Nick with their din ; 
 There was hunters, and ranters and radical chaunters. 
 Clubbing their half-pence for quarterns of gin. 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC disguised as Beggars, mth Plaeardson 
 their backs TORI'S " Burnt Out lost my little all." 'JEllRY'S '' Deaf and 
 i)MW*." LOGIC'S " Thirteen Children:' ^c. 
 
 Sue. Here they are I know them in spite of their rags. 
 Tom. This, my dear Jerry, is a rich page in the book of life, which will 
 save you many a pound, by exposing the imposition of street mendicity. It 
 almost staggers belief that hypocrisy is so successful, and that the fine feeling 
 of the heart should become so blunted, as to laugh at the humanity of those 
 who step forward to relieve them. 
 
 Log. 'Tisthe bluntthatdoesit but stowmagging.Tom,orwe shall get blown. 
 Jerry. Tom, here's a group of blackbeetles do you see those lovely 
 mendicants ? 
 
 To^n. Beauty in rags I do Cupid imploring charity, I'll relieve him, for 
 I'll be after that match-girl directly. 
 
 Jerry. And I'll chant a few words to that beautiful ballad-singer. 
 Log. And I'll take pity on that charming beggar. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 5 1 
 
 Song of the Cadgers in the Holy Land. 
 
 Come, let us dance and sing, 
 
 While fani'd St. Giles' bells shall ring, 
 Black Bilkj scrapes the fiddle strings, 
 
 Little Jemmy fills the Chair. 
 Frisk away, let's be gay, 
 This is Cadger'' s holiday ; 
 While knaves are thinking, we are drinking, 
 Bring in more gin and beer. 
 
 Come, let %is dance and sing, <^c. 
 
 Sere's Bough-boy Bet, and Silver Sail, 
 
 Lushy Bob, and Yankee Moll, 
 And Sake, as black as any pall. 
 The pinks of the Holy Land. 
 Now, merry ^ merry, let us be, > 
 
 There's none more happier sure than we. 
 For what we get we spend it free. 
 As all must understand ! 
 Come, let us dance, S(C. 
 
 Now he that would merry be. 
 
 Let him drink and sing as we, 
 Jn palaces you shall not see. 
 
 Such happiness as here. 
 Then booze about, our cash anH out. 
 Here's sixpence in a dirty clout ; 
 Come landlord bring us in more stout, 
 Our pension-time draws near. 
 Come, let us dance,, ^c. 
 
 Enter LANDLORD with supper. 
 
 Land. Now, your honours, here's the rum peck, here's the supper. 
 
 Billy. Eh, de supper ! de supper ! come along, (After strikiny Creeping 
 Jack on fingers with knife). You damn nasty dog ! what for you put your 
 dirty fingers in de gravy ? you call that gentlemans ? you want your finger in 
 de pie, now you got him there ! 
 
 Jack. I only wish'd to taste the stuffining. 
 
 Billy. And now you taste de carver knife instead ! (takes candle, and looks 
 at supper). Vy, what him call dis P 
 
 Land. Why, the turkey and the pie, to be sure. 
 
 Billy. De turkey and de pie ! I tink you said deturkey and de pie, what ! 
 
 de turkey without de sassinger ! him shock him wouldn't give pin for 
 
 turkey without dem me like a de Alderman in chain. 
 Land. I'm very sorry, Mr. Waters, but 
 Billy You sorry ! I'm sorry for my supper, you damn dog. 
 
 E 2 
 
52 JHE HISTORY OF 
 
 Mr. J. (To Landlord). Vhat ! sarve up a turkey without sassiges, you're 
 a nice man I don't think. 
 
 Jack. (To Landlord) . I tell you vhat, young man, vhen you talk to gem- 
 men, lam to take off your hat. 
 
 Jemmy. Vy there's no lemon to the weal, nor hoyster sasse to the rump 
 stakes. It's shocking, infamous neglect, that's vot it is. 
 
 Mr. J. (To Landlord). Vy, who do you suppose would eat rump stakes 
 without ayesters ? I've a great mind to smash your countenance for you ! 
 You ought to have your head punched you ought ! 
 
 Jemmy. Here's no filberds to the Port, nor devils to the Madery, nather. 
 
 La7id. Egad, I think there's devils enough to it. (Aside). Gentlemen, 
 the deficiencies shall be supplied directly. (He is hunted off). 
 
 Mr. J. Hit him ; he's got no friends. 
 
 Jemmy, We must go to some hother tavern, if we're neglected in this here 
 manner. 
 
 Mr. J. You may do as you please, gemmen, but for my part, I shall 
 certainly use some other hotel. 
 
 Billy. You perfectly right, Massa Jenkins, we must use some other \xo\.-hell. 
 Jerry. (To Sue, she having attracted his attention). And so you sell 
 ballads, eh ? 
 
 Sue. Yes, Sir, three a penny ; but if you like to take twelve, I'll make you 
 an allowance. 
 
 Jerry. Oh, I'll have the allowance by all means. 
 
 Sue. (Singing). 
 
 *' Relieve my woes, my wants distressing ; 
 And Heaven reward you with its blessing. ^^ 
 
 Jerry. Enchanting vagrant ! come here, and let me bargain with you. 
 
 {Takes Sue aside). 
 
 Tom. (To Kate, bringing her down, C. in like manner). And so you make 
 matches, do you ? 
 
 Kate. Yes ! as you'll find out by and by. (Aside). 
 
 Tom. But *ant these brimstone dealings contagious ? you little flower of 
 hum-um-um (Takes her up in a corner). 
 
 Log. (To JanCy bringing her dovm R. ) You've moved me so, that I could 
 bestow every mag I've got, you beautiful beggar, I could. 
 
 (Knocking without). 
 
 Enter LANDLORD, running, l, Previously to which, Kate and Sue 
 
 have, unobserved, given beggars money, and entered into communication with 
 them poifiting aside to Tom, Jerry and Logic. 
 
 Billy. Vat de matter, vat broke, eh ? (To Landlord). 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 53 
 
 Land. Gentlemen vagabonds ; the traps are abroad, and half a thousand 
 beadle and beaksmen are now about the door. 
 
 Billy. De beak ! oh curse a de beak ! 
 
 Jemmy. Gemmen ! gemmen ! (Knocking on table to command attention). 
 
 Jack. Silence for the chair ! 
 
 Jemmy. Put out the lights, put out the lights, every one shift for himself. 
 Here, Bob, carry me up the ladder, good luck to you do, Bob. 
 
 Billy. Landlord ! landlord, you dog ! which door de beak come in at. 
 
 Land, At the front. 
 
 Billy. Vy, den carry me out at de back door, you Dick. 
 
 \^He and Jemmy are carried out. Lights are put out General consternation. 
 
 FINALE. Tom, Jerry, Logic, Sue, Kate, Jane, Mr. Jenkins, Creep- 
 ing Jack, and Beggars. 
 
 Air^ Zitti, Zitti Fiano, Piano ! '' 
 Mr. Jenkins. 
 
 Up the ladder^ softly creeping, 
 
 Let us gently steal away, 
 Traps without their watch are keeping, 
 
 T/iere we'll let the rascals stay. 
 
 Creeping Jack. 
 
 Traps without, their watch are keeping, 
 
 Tread softly ; no delay ; 
 Up the ladder slily creeping 
 
 Through the back door and away. 
 
 Tom, Jerry, Logic, Kate, Sue, and Jane. 
 
 To my arms, love, softly creeping, 
 
 To bliss we^ll steal away ; 
 Suspense His idle keeping. 
 
 Seize pleasure while you may. 
 
 Where are you ? where are you ? 
 
 To my arms, love, softly creeping. 
 To bliss we'' II steal away. 
 
 Softly, softly ; lightly, lightly ; away ; 
 away ! away ! 
 
 Kate, Sue, and Jane, as Tom, Jerry, and Logic ad/vance, attracted by their 
 voices, adroitly substitute Dingy Bet, Soldier Suke, and another, in the places 
 of themselves. Drop falls on Tom, Jerry, and Logic, carrying their beggarly 
 bargains off in great exultation, Kate, Sue, and Jane enjoying the joke in the 
 
54 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Jerry Learning to Spar. 
 
 NOW Jerry's become a fancy bJade, 
 
 To Jackson's he often goes 
 And to shew his skill in the milling trade, 
 
 He crack'd poor Logic's nose. 
 
 He gloried in having a turn-up, 
 And was always the first in a lark, 
 
 To bang and wallop the Charlies, 
 And pommel them in the dark. 
 
 SCENE. Jackson's Rooms^ in Bond Street. Tonif Jerry ^ and Logic discovered. 
 
 Life in London with us is a round of delight ; 
 
 It is larking all day, sprees and rambles all night ; 
 
 Tom, Jerry, and Logic have ever the best 
 
 Of the coves in the Hast, and the sioells in the West ; 
 
 Such pals in a turn-up, so bang up and merry, 
 
 As Jerry, Tom, Logic Tom, Logic, and Jerry, 
 
 Ne^er xoas seen, since the world first by Noah was undone, 
 
 So here's Logic's, Jerry's, and Tom's Life in Loudon! 
 
 Tom- We are, indeed, a regular trio ; every part well harmonised. 
 
 Log. Ay, all sharps ! not a flat or a natural among us. 
 
 Jerry. I don't think we were so very sharp last night, though, when we 
 suffered ourselves to be made such apes of in Noah's Ark. 
 
 Tom. You are right, Jerry, we are all at fault here ; instead of clasping in 
 my arms my pretty timber merchant judge my horror, when on approaching 
 a parish lamp, I found myself hugging that duchess of the dust-hole Dingy 
 Bet. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 55 
 
 Log. I was served quite as badly instead of my seraphic street solicitor, I 
 found myself carrying on the war with Soldier Suke. 
 
 Tom. Worse and worse, who did you make yourself agreeable to, eh, 
 Jerry ? Jerry. 1 beg you won't mention it ! 
 
 Tom. Let's think no more on't ; the tables were fairly turned upon us, and 
 we mustn't grumble we have now stepped into Jackson's rooms to decide 
 the bet with Logic as to our weight ; and as he has won it, let's be going 
 but stop, before we go, what say you to a bout with the foils ? 
 
 Jerry. No go, Tom, I'm fly it s a bad spec ; I am not going to expose 
 my ignorance of fencing here but as far as a bout at single-sticks goes 
 why I have no objection. 
 
 Tom. Bob will accommodate ; won't you, Bob ? come, Doctor, you must 
 have a turn one small taste. 
 
 Log. No go ! no, no, Mr. Somerset, you're a downy one at that sport it 
 won't fit. 
 
 Tern. Positively you shall. Bob come the least taste. 
 
 Log. Well, well ! I won't baulk your fancy, as you seem bent upon sport 
 but mind, only one bout. Jtrry. No ; one will be sufficient. 
 
 ( They 'place themselves in position.) 
 
 Tom Holloa, Jerry, don't swallow him. 
 
 Log. Use me gently, I'm but a green at this. 
 
 Tom. Now, then, come up to the scratch. 
 
 ( They play ; Jerry makes a hit ; Logic parries). 
 
 Tom. Well stopp'd uncommon well, Bob. 
 
 Log. Do you think so ; but, I say, none of your chaffing. 
 
 Tom. Now, really Jerry. Yes, yes, he's up. 
 
 Log. Hum, I don't think it was so much amiss myself. 
 
 Jerry. Now, Doctor, take care of your bread-basket eyes right, look to 
 your napper. 
 
 Tom. Ay, ay, be leary. Bob, take care of your ribs ~ mind your pipkin 
 be down on your pimple. 
 
 {They play a second bout ; Jerry breaks Logic's head). 
 Tom, 1 say, Bob, did you hear anything knock ? 
 Log. Yes ; and nobody at home. 
 Jerry ^ Doctor ! I touch'd your knowledge box there, I think. 
 
 Log. Touch'd it, zounds ! you've broken it, Jerry, but it must have been 
 cracked before, or I should never have entered the lists with you. Brown- 
 paper and vinegar for one. 
 
 [Exit. 
 
56 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Scene in a Gin Shop. 
 
 HERE some are tumbling and jumping in, 
 
 And some are staggering out ; 
 One's pawn'd her smock for a quarten of gin, 
 
 Another, her husband's coat. 
 
 Behold, Mr, Tom and Jerry, 
 
 Have got an old woman in tow, 
 They sluic'd her with gin, 'till she reel'd on her pins, 
 
 And was haul'd off to quod for a row. 
 
 Scene. interior of a london gin shop. 
 
 Tom and Jerry taking Blue Ruin, after the Spell is broken up. 
 
 Tom is sluicing the ivories of some of the unfortunate heroines with blue 
 ruin, whom the breaking up of the Spell has turned-up without any luck, in 
 order to send them to their pannies full of spirits. Jerry is in Tip Street on 
 this occasion, and the Mollishers are all nutty upon him ; putting it about, 
 one to another, that he is a well breeched Swell. Fat Bet is pretending 
 to Tom, that she had a great objection to every sort oiruin, no matter now 
 coloured, since she had once been queered upon that suit. SwiPY Bill, a 
 translator of Soles, who has been out for a day's fuddle, for fear his money 
 should become too troublesome to him, has just called in at the OinS pinner's 
 to get rid of his last duce, by way of a finish, and to have another drop of 
 blu ruin. This last glass would have floored him, had it not been for the 
 large butt of liquor which he staggered against. Hiccoughing, he swears 
 "he'll stand by Old Tom while he has a sole left to support such a good 
 fellow." 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 57 
 
 GIN, GIN, SWEET, SWEET GIN ! 
 Air. Home, Sweet Home. 
 p^ALK through London town, in Alley, Lane or Street, 
 ftff Eight to ten of all the folks you overtake or meet, 
 List to what they talk about, you'll find amid the din, 
 The end of every conversation is a drop of Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, sweet, sweet Gin, 
 There's no drops like Gin. 
 
 'HEN the world was young, as we read in classic page, 
 The shepherds drank the purling stream, and pass'd the 
 golden age ; 
 
 For purling streams or golden age folks now don't care a pin. 
 So that they can raise the brass to keep this age of Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, Hodge's Gin, &c. 
 
 ^HEN the weather's cold and bleak in rain and frost and 
 W snow. 
 
 The Gin, the Gin they fly to, to warm them with its glow. 
 In summer time, to cool their heat, we see them all flock in 
 And joy or sorrow, heat or cold, all seek relief in Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, Seager and Evans's Gin, &c. 
 
58 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Battle of ^ GIN COURT! 
 
 eIR Richard Burnie sad, declares that never in his time, 
 Was seen so much depravity, want, misery and crime ; 
 And all the brawls the roitings the day and nightly din. 
 Are caused by what he never tasted ! filthy ! horrid Gin I 
 Gin, Gin, Booth's Cordial Gin, &c. 
 
 N India, when a Husband dies the Widow ne'er can smile, 
 She's burnt alive, a sacrifice, upon her husband's pile ; 
 In London many Wives and Widows deem it not a sin, 
 To sacrifice and burn themselves alive with fire of Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, Sir Robert Burnett's Gin, &c. 
 
 jECREPIT age with furrow'd face, and one foot in the grave, 
 Hobbles on his crutches, and for a drop does crave ; 
 Infants, e'er they plainly talk, perk up each little chin 
 And cry, oh mammy, daddy, baby 'ont a d'op o' din. 
 Gin, Gin, Currie's strong Gin, &c. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 59 
 
 Gin Lane. 
 
 IJTN former times we'd Goblins, Fairies, Witches, Ghosts and 
 
 &i Sprites, 
 
 Who ruled the people's minds by day, and play'd sad pranks o' 
 
 nights ; 
 But now the tales of Ghosts and such the people can't take in 
 They won't believe in Spirits, yet put all their faith in Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, Gaitskell's Cordial Gin, &c. 
 
 fN the Reign of old Queen Bess good eating did prevail, 
 , Her Majesty and all the Court would breakfast on strong ale ; 
 
 But now through every Court, the folk the fashion to be in, 
 Would a// all day, unless 'fore breakfast they could take some Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, renovating Gin, &c. 
 
 OLD women used to cheer their hearts and found it did agree, 
 _ ' By sometimes taking with a friend a cup too much of tea ; 
 But now they're much more spirited for tea don't care a pin. 
 And only use their tea pots for a cup too much of Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, tongue-relaxing Gin, &c. 
 
6o 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Gin and Bitters. 
 
 IIGHTERS take a " shove in the mouth;' though it is their 
 bane, 
 
 Jack Ketch often has a ^^ drop'' Scavengers a "drain" -, 
 Pris'ners " half a yard of tape" to get in merry pin 
 And Actors oft get " mellow " with a " mellow dram " of Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, Tragic, Comic Gin, &c. 
 
 IHOMPSON'S shop on Holborn Hill is crowded like a fair, 
 All the taps continually running out are there ; 
 Swing swang go the doors, while some pop out and some pop in, 
 Foreigners must surely think that John Bull lives on Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, dear seductive gin, &c. 
 
 f]]HIS World was once deluged by water, drowning Son & Sire, 
 I But when it is destroy'd again, we read 'twill be by fire ; 
 
 And this must be the awful time, so prevalent is sin, 
 As all the wicked world do burn their insides out with Gin. 
 Gin, Gin, life -inspiring Gin, &c. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 6l 
 
 Tom and Jerry Catching Kate and Sue on the Sly 
 Having their Fortunes told. 
 
 HERE lives a Fortune-Telling Gipsy, 
 Wrinkled, crabbed, grim and old ; 
 
 And Tom and Jerry's fancy ladies 
 Are gone to get their Fortunes told. 
 
 They slily view'd them, and pursued them, 
 For to have some glorious fun. 
 
 Behind the curtain, see them sporting, 
 This is life in London Town. 
 
 vSCENE. Interior of Fortune Teller's Garret. 
 
 Enter JANE, KATE, SUE, TRIFLE, GREEN, and LANDLORD. 
 
 GLEE. Own^s. 
 
 Air.** TFho has seen the Miller's Wife." 
 
 Jane, Kate, Sue, Trifle, and Green. 
 Have you the Fortune Teller seen ? 
 I, I for hours have waiting been ; 
 A shilling o'er her palm I'll pass 
 If she'll but look in Fortune' e glass. 
 
 Have you, &c. 
 
 Land. Oh, here she comes at last. 
 
62 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Enter FORTUNE TELLER. 
 
 Land. Now mother, stir your. stumps ; here are two ladies waiting for you. 
 and half a score more below. 
 
 F. Tdler. Aye, aye ! I turn hundreds away. 
 
 Green. Vhat an orrid hooman ! 
 
 F. Teller. You must leave the room, gentlemen, {To Green and Trifle)^ my 
 charms never hold good in the presence of a third person. 
 
 Sue. You hear, Mr. Green, her charms never hold good in the presence of 
 a third person. 
 
 Green. I should vondor if they did Her charms ! Lord I can take an 
 int ; I'm to go wery veil, I shall absconce Vat an ugly old vitch ! 
 
 Trifle. (To Girls). We shall meet again at Logic's, so I'll leave you with 
 the particularly frightful old hag, pan /tan our demme ! 
 
 {Exeunt Green, Trifle, and Landlord. 
 
 F. Telkr. {Sitting at Table). Now then, young women. I'll tell you I'll 
 tell you but you must let me shuffle the cards first ! {Produces cards) For 
 its all done by shuffling ! now then, cut them. Miss. 
 
 {Sue cuts cards). 
 
 Kate. Let us sit down while we stay rather short of furniture ; but never 
 mind, we must make shift. 
 
 {Turns down chair lengthivays to sit ; she sits on one side. Sue on the other Sue 
 is nearly let down by Kate suddenly rising). 
 
 F. Teller. {Looking over cards). Hey day ! what have we here? You'll be 
 married soon. 
 
 Sue. 1 hope so, with all my heart ! 
 
 F. Teller. There's a fair man been paying some attention to you, lately 
 Hum ! a cradle three ! nine ! fourteen ! have a large family. 
 
 Sue. Fourteen ! mercy on me ! 
 
 Kate. Enough to make one faint ! 
 
 F. Teller. There's nothing more that I see at present. 
 
 Sue. Nor there hadn't need been ; if I'm to have fourteen children, I think 
 I've heard quite enough. 
 
 F. Teller. {To Kate). Now, Miss, I'll tell you your fortune; how many 
 husbands, and how many children, and all about it all about it. 
 
 Kate. But I don't want to hear "all about it." {Imitating her). 1 only 
 want a peep into your magic mirror, and see who I'm to marry. 
 
 F. Teller. You should have told me that before, I always charge more for 
 that, but I suppose I must throw it you in ! Now, then, stand there ; and be 
 very still ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 63 
 
 {Music Fortune teller places Kate and Sue in position at offend of the stage 
 then advances to cabinet waves her crutch ; pulls curtain aside, and discovers 
 a large glass Landlord passes rapidly behind. 
 
 There ! I told you I'd show him to you ! 
 
 Kate. Wonderful ! why that's the man that opened the door to us ! 
 
 {Aside to Sue). 
 
 F. Teller. Now, Miss, I'll show you your sweetheart ! 
 
 {Music and ceremony as before -.Landlord repasses contrary way). 
 
 Kate. Ha, ha, ha ! that's the same man again ! We're both to marry the 
 same husband ! 
 
 Sue. Amazingly agreeable ! 
 
 Kate. The old impostor ! Well, now you've told us our fortune ; can't 
 you tell your own? {To Fortune Teller). 
 
 F. Teller. No, no I have no power over my own stars. 
 
 Kate. Then I'll tell it for you In half an hour, unless you make good use 
 of your time, you'll have a visit from Union Hall. 
 
 F. Teller. O, dear me ! It's lucky I've a handy cockloft, and a safe way 
 over the houses I'll be off directly, I'll be off directly ! 
 
 {Throws dovm crutch, cloak, &c., and exits hastily). 
 
 Kate. ".I'll be off directly, off directly." {Imitating Fortune Teller.) 
 Ha, ha, ha ! She left all her things behind her ! We can now set up in 
 business for ourselves. 
 
 Enter JANE hastily, L. 
 
 Jane. Oh, my dear girls, as I was keeping watch below, I saw Tom and 
 Jerry coming down the street, and making for this very house depend on't 
 they have traced you here. 
 
 Kate. What's to be done ? Tom and Jerry ! 
 
 Sue. Jerry and Tom coming here ! {Running about in confusion, KnocJcing 
 at door). 
 
 Jane. Don't keep nmning about there, as if you were out of your senses, 
 but listen to me get behind that glass and leave me to manage ; I'll play 
 the Fortune Teller, now ! Help me on with the things there ! there! that 
 will do ; now then, away with you ! 
 
 ( They hide behind Cabinet, after disguising Jane). 
 
 Tom. {As entering). Come, Jerry, here they Eh ! not here! well, we 
 won't have our walk for nothing Let's quiz the old one a bit. I say, 
 Mother Mummery, can you tell our fortunes for us ? 
 
 Jane. {As old woman). Oh, yes ; but you must cross my hand first. 
 
 Tom. She wants the tippery there ((??V.'? money). There, that's the 
 figure, Jerry. 
 
64 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Jane. {Looks at Jerry). Now, Sir ! 
 
 Jerry. Oh ! must I fork out, too. {Oives money) 
 
 Jane. (Looking at their palms). Dear me Idear me ! 
 
 Tom. You said that before, you know. 
 
 Jane. You've been sad rakes sad rakes indeed ! 
 
 Tom. {Imitating her). Have we, indeed ? 
 
 Jerry. Why, you witch of Endor I 
 
 Tom. What ! can the devil speak ? but come, I'll find you out at once. I 
 conjure you by that which you profess, how'er you come to know it. Answer 
 me, though you untie the winds ! unveil your magic mirror, and show us the 
 images of the women we are to marry. Come up with your little machine. 
 Whew ! appear appear ! they won't come ! 
 
 Jane. I must have a little more money first ! 
 
 Tom. Why, you old cormorant ! more blunt, eh ? there {Gives money). 
 
 Jane. There, then ! 
 
 Draws Curtain ; Kate and Sue appear behind it in their own dresses ; Jane 
 slips away.) 
 
 Tom. Well, Jerry, what do you see ? 
 
 Jerry. {Going vp to glass). Susan Rosebud ! astonishing. 
 
 Tom. Susan Rosebud ! Oh, my dear Jerry, your ogles must be queer ! 
 {Goes up; sees Kate). My Kate! by all that's miraculous! Where is the 
 juggling hag? {Looking ;f or Jane). Why, she's mizzled! Holloa, Mother 
 Damnable ! Oh, there's some mystery in the infernal mirror, which thus I 
 solve ! 
 
 Jerry. What are you about, Tom ? 
 
 Tom. I'm going to mill the glaze I'll 
 
 {Is about to break the glass, when Kate and Sue appear as the Miss Trifles). 
 
 Tom. The Miss Trifles ! by all that's 
 
 JANE, KATE, and SUE come forward. 
 
 Kate. Ha, ha ! fairly caught, upon my word. {Retires up the stage, then 
 says aside to Jane and Sue). Now girls it is time we should bring our plans 
 to a conclusion. Logic's imprudent ramblings have involved him in difficul- 
 ties which, unless timely met, must terminate in ruin, I have bought up most 
 of his debts ; and in the midst of the gaiety of this evening, it is my intention 
 to have him arrested and conveyed to prison. I have sent the officer my 
 card of invitation, that he may be sure to gain admittance. This will open 
 the eyes of the thoughtless trio, and enable us to put the money we took in 
 trust at the gambling-house to its proper use ; so let's away, and about it 
 straight. [They run off."] 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 65 
 
 SCENE. Mr. Mace's Crib. "All Max" in the East.* 
 "Oh! for a glass of Max." ByrorJs Don Juan. 
 
 A plague on those malty cove fellows. 
 
 Who'd have us in spirits relax ; 
 Drink, they say, and you'll ne'er hum the bellows, 
 
 Half -water instead of all max ; 
 A glass of good max, had they twigg'd it, 
 
 JVould have made them, like us, lads of wax ; 
 For Sal swigg'd, and Dick swigg'd, 
 
 And Bob swigg'd, and Nick swigg'd. 
 And rve swigg'd, and we've all of us swigg'd it, 
 
 And, by Jingo, there's nothing like max. 
 All- Max! 
 By Jingo, there's nothing like max ! 
 
 Here the tag-rag and bob-tail squad who do not care how the blunt comes 
 or how it goes. Togs or no togs ! but nevertheless, who must live at any 
 price, and see a "ftz7 of life," let the world jog on how it will ; yet who can 
 drop a tear upon a sorrowful event laugh heartily at fun shake with cold 
 perspire with heat and go to roost much sounder upon a dust-hill than many 
 of the swells can snooze upon their feather dabs ; likewise in comparing notes, 
 feel happy in the presumption that there are hundreds worse oif in society 
 than themselves. 
 
 All-Max in the East. TYiQw^ry a.nti'poAesoitYie A bnack's in the West was held 
 at the Coach and Horses public house, Nightingale-lane, East Smithfield, which was 
 kept by a person of the appropriate name of Mace. Here it required no patronage ; a 
 card of admission was not necessary ; no enquiries were made, and every cove that put in 
 his appearance was quite welcome, colour or country considered no obstacle ; and dress 
 and Address completely out of the question. Ceremonies \^^xq not in use, therefore no 
 struggle took place at All-Max for the master of them. The parties //ri'^ oJjfiofa7icy ; 
 the eye was pleased in the choice, and nothing thought of about birth and distinction. 
 All was liappiness ! every body free and easy, and freedom of expression allowed to the 
 very echo. The group motley indeed ; Lascars, blacks, jack tars, coalheavers, dustmen, 
 women of colour, old and young, and a sprinkling of the remnants of once fine girls, &c. 
 were zi.\ jigging together, provided the teazer of the catgut was not bilked out ol\v\s,dnce. 
 Gloves might have been laughed at, as dirty hands produced no squeamishness on the 
 heroines in the dance, and the scene changed as often as a pantomime, from the continual 
 introduction of new characters. Heavy wet was the cooling beverage, but frequently 
 overtaken hyjlasiies 0/ lightning. 
 
 " I am quite satisfied in my mind, said Logic to Tom, it is the Lower Orders of society 
 who really enjoy themselves. They eat with a good appetite, hunger being the sauce ; 
 they drinJi with zest, in being thirsty from their exertions, and not nice in their beverage, 
 and, as to dress, it is not an object of serious consideration with them. Their minds are 
 daily occupied with work, which they quit with the intention oi enjoying themselves, and 
 enjoyment is the result ; not like the rich, who are out night after night to kill time, and 
 what is worse, dissatisfied with almost every thing that crosses their path, from dulness of 
 repetition!' 
 
 " There is too much truth about your argument, I must admit," replied Corinthian ; 
 " and among the scenes that we have witnessed together, where the Lower Order have 
 been taking their pleasure, I confess they have appeared all happiness. I am sorry I 
 cannot say as much foi the higher ranks of society." 
 
 F 
 
66 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Enter SAILORS, DUSTY BOB, AFRICAN SAL, MAHOGANY 
 MARY; MRS. and MISS LILLYWHITE, ROSIN, &c., &c., with gin 
 measures, drinking Mr. Mace in attendance. 
 
 Bob. Now, landlord, 'arter that 'ere drap of max, suppose ve have a drain 
 o' heavy vet, just by vay of cooling our chaffers mine's as dry as a chip 
 and, I say, do you hear, let's have a twopenny burster, half aquartenof bees' 
 vax, a ha'p'orth o' ingens, and a dollop o' salt along vith it, vill vou ? 
 
 Mace. Here, Waiter! a burster and bees' vax ingens and salt here. 
 {Calling as he fetches the porter from the side wing). Now, then, here you 
 are. Muster Grimmuzzle. {Holding out his right hand for the money, and 
 keeping the porter away with the other). 
 
 Bob. That's your sort ; give us hold on it. (Takes Mace's empty handj. 
 Vy, vhere ? 
 
 Mace. (Keeping the porter back). Vy, here. 
 
 Bob. Oh, you are afeard of the blunt, are you ? 
 
 Mace. No, it ain't that ; only I'm no schollard so I always takes the blunt 
 with von hand, and gives the pot vith t'other. It saves chalk and prewents 
 mistakes, you know. 
 
 Bob. Now then for the stumpy. (Searching about in his pockets for the 
 money). My tanners are like young colts; I'm obliged to hunt 'em into a 
 corner, afore I can get hold on 'em there ! hand us over three browns out 
 o' that 'ere tizzy ; and tip us the heavy. {Landlord receives money and delivers 
 porter). Vy don't you fill the pot ? Likes to have a head on the pot. 
 
 Mace. How can you have a head on the pot, vhen the chill's off? 
 
 Bob. Veil, then let me have the next vith the chill on, vill you ? {Bob 
 drinks). Sal. You leave some for me, Massa Bob. {Drinks and empties 
 the pot). 
 
 Bob. Vy, Sarah, you seems fond on it likes to see the end, eh? " 
 
 (Bob sits down on one stool and pulls another to the front of him on which he 
 arranges the bread, cheese, onions, &<?., then tearing open the loaf discovers a 
 live motcse which he holds up by the tail, and walking up to Mr. Mace, says : 
 I say guv'nor I did'nt axe ye for a hanimated sandvitch did I ? 
 
 Mace. Oh ! you is alius so werry partic'lar some times you is. But I say 
 ladies and gemnien, I hopes for the harmony of the evening, you'll not be 
 back'ards in handing out your mags and duces to the teazer of the catgut 
 here. 
 
 Bob. Aye, aye ! lend us a tanner on the bell, vill you ? 
 
 Mace. Lend you a tanner on the bell? It's vhat I don't like. Muster Bob ; 
 highly improper you know I've a wery great objection to anything of the 
 kind; however, for vonce, I suppose I must; though it 'aint right but talking 
 o' that, I begs leave to hint, that I trusts heavy vet von't be the order of the 
 evening ! : 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 67 
 
 Tom. (Without J. No, no, damn up stairs, we'll go in here. 
 
 Mace. Zounds, I hope no traps isn't abroad, and that there 'aint any beaks- 
 men out on the nose ! 
 
 Sal. {Looking out). Law, lovee, no, it's only some gemmen out on the 
 spree 1 dare say dat dey'll stand a drop o' summat all round. 
 
 Enter TOM, JERRY, and LOGIC. 
 
 Tom. Now, my dear Jerry, here we are amongst the unsophisticated sons 
 and daughters of nature, at All Max in the East. Let the West boast of 
 their highfliers as they will, you'll find there are still some choice creatures of 
 Society left here . 
 
 Log. What, my lily ! here take a drop of mother's milk. {Gives black child 
 gin out of a measure he has received from Landlord). Landlord, let every one 
 have a glass of what they like best, at our cost. 
 
 Mace. Regular trumps ! I can charge vhat I likes here. {Aside). Now, 
 Muster Bob, vhat'll you take ? 
 
 Bob. Oh, ax my Sal. Mace. Now, Marm Sal, give it a name ! 
 
 Sal. Vy, bring me de kwarten of de Fuller's earth. 
 
 Tom. Come, it shall be a night of revelry, my pippins -Song Dance 
 everything in the world ! 
 
 Mace. Aye ! a jig, a jig! Remove the stand-stills sit down, gemmen. 
 Ve shall be as merry as mudlarks, and as gay as sand-boys soon It's a poor 
 heart vhat never rejoices. Come, Muster Grimmuzzle, vhat say you to a 
 minnyvit vith your ould lady in mourning, here. 
 
 Bob. Vith all my heart ; I am never backward at any thing of that 'ere 
 sort ; am I Sal ? 
 
 Sal. Dat you not, Massa Bob. Massa Fiddler, you ought to be shame ; 
 your fiddle drunk, and no play at all. 
 
 Log. I'll gin him a little, my Snow-ball ; then he'll rasp away like a 
 young one ; won't you, my old one ? {Gives Fiddler gin and snuff). 
 
 Bob. * Snowball,' come, let's have none o'your sinnywations, Mister 
 Barnacles ; she's none the vurser, though she is a little blackish or so ! 
 
 Log. Here, Landlord, more Blue Ruin, my boy ! 
 
 Tom. Ceremonies are not in use here, so there's no occasion for the master 
 of them, Come, start off, my rum ones ! the double shuffle. 
 Jerry. Aye, aye ! come it strong my regulars. 
 
 F 2 
 
68 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 COMIC PAS DEUX Dusty Bob and Black Sal. 
 
 Accompanied ly Rosin, on his cracTced Cremona, and Jerry on a pair of Tongs, 
 to the Air " Jack's alive. ^^ In the course of the Pas Deux, Sal, by way of 
 a variation, and in the fulness of her spirits, keeps twirling about : at the same 
 time going round the Stage Boh runs after her, loith his hat in his hand, 
 crying " Sarah! vy, Sarah, 'aint you well ?" &c. The blackchild seeingthis, 
 and thinking there is something the matter loith its mother, also squalls violently ; 
 stretching its arms towards her : at length, Sal, becoming tired of her vagaries ^ 
 sets to Bob, who exclaims, '* Oh! it's all right!" and the dance concludes. 
 
 Jerry. That would do honour to any crib ; there's nothing like pairing off 
 according to fancy. You're quite fly to the trotter shaking department, I 
 see, my rum one ! 
 
 Tom. To be sure he is a regular gravel digger ; come, Sal, my lily. {Gives 
 Sal gin). 
 
 Bob. Vy, Sarah, vere's your manners ; vy don't you kurchy to the gemman ? 
 
 Sal. Me do dat de second time. {Receives another glass). Your good 
 helts, gemmen all. {Drinks). 
 
 Tom. -Here, Dusty, my prince, now then, sluice your bolt. ( Gives Bob gin). 
 
 Bob. Veil, your honours, here's your luck. {Bolts gin). That's a regular 
 kwortern, 1 knows by my mouth. 
 
 Tom. There's a swallow, Jerry, this fellow is a perfect mop. 
 
 Jerry. Now, Doctor, we mustthinkof starting Eh ! zounds ! what's the 
 matter with you ? {To Logic). 
 
 Log. I've left off drinking in a great measure. 
 
 {Merry and singing). " There'' s a difference between," &c., &c., 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 69 
 
 Jerry. Tom, see how snugly Captain Lushington's getting abroad of Logic. 
 Come, my boy. 
 
 Tom. Remember your appointment with the ladies. 
 
 Lop. I do like this fiddle, I will have this fiddle {Pulling Fiddler along). 
 
 Tom. Eh, zounds, Doctor, you're going to smug the fiddler, and prig the 
 pewter. {Taking gin measure away from him). Now then, what's to pay, 
 landlord ? 
 
 Mace. All out, vill be fourteen bob and a kick, your honour, 
 
 Toin. Well, there's a flimsy for you ; serve the change out in max to the 
 coves and covesses. {Gives money). 
 
 Mace. Thank your honour and good luck to you. 
 
 Tom. Now then, Doctor, this way, my boy ; come, come along. 
 
 Log. {Singing). ** ^ Queen she cannot swagger." I will have this fiddle 
 *' nor get drunk like a beggar.'^ More max here " Nor be half so merry as /," 
 
 [^Logic becoming obstreperous, they partly force him off, and exeunt with him."] 
 
 Mace. Regular out-and-outers those 'ere ! quite gemmen I've stuck it 
 
 into 'em a bit I {Aside). 
 
 Bob. Aye, ay, ve knows it ! vith the chill off! you're an out-and-out 
 Stringer, you are ! 
 
 Mace. So I don't mind standing a trifle of summat all round, just by way 
 of drinking their healths ; and vhen ve've had the liquor, ve'll kick up a reel, 
 and all go to our dabs. 
 
 Bob. Ay ay ! but before that, mind you get us a bit of grub for me and my 
 Sal about a pound and a half of rump steak 
 
 Sal. No, two pound Massa Bob, for her rather peckish. 
 
 Bob. Very veil, two pound, vith a pickled cowcumber, and a pen'orth o' 
 ketchup, to make some gravy of; and stick it up to the bell ! d'ye hear ? 
 
 Mace. You'll melt that 'ere bell if you don't mind, Muster Bob ; this is 
 vhat I don't like vhy don't you always take care and bring plenty of money 
 in your pockets? You know I'm wery particular in things of this here kind ! 
 though I don't mind obliging you 
 
 Lob. Ay, ay, vith the chill off, I knows I but it's all right must have the 
 bell in the morning, you know, even if I spout the togs for it. 
 
 Mace. Now then, strike up, my beauty ! 
 
 Lob. Aye, aye, pull it out, my pink ! 
 
 [Comic Charactei'lstic Reel by all the Characters; who, under the influence of 
 All Max, at last reel off. ^ 
 
70 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Poor Logic in the Fleet Prison. 
 
 ALL in the Fleet poor Logic's moor'd 
 
 His swaggering's now at an end ! 
 And Tom and Jerry are gone on board, 
 
 Their friendly assistance to lend. 
 Now, all their sprees and gambols are closed 
 
 For Logic has vow'd and swore 
 When he's from Limbo safe loosed, 
 
 He'll marry and rake no more. 
 
 SCENE. Interior of Whistling Shop ; Master and Mistress of Whistling 
 
 Shop Racket players Poor Tradesman, Smuggler, and Debtors discovered. 
 
 CHORUS. (Ownes). 
 
 All in the feet we're safely moored, 
 But while we've trusty pals on board, 
 
 Law may to 
 
 The devil go ; 
 Tlisn, brother Debtors, sport and play. 
 
 Let tempests whistle as they will. 
 Our Whistling Shops will drown them still ; 
 A yard of tape 
 Will prove the Cape. 
 And drive each thought of care away, 
 Tol de rol. 
 
 Enter TURNKEY and LOGIC. 
 Turn. Here's Doctor Logic come to pay you a visit, gentlemen You'll 
 get good accommodation here, Sir ; and find some regular trumps among 'em. 
 
 Log. Thank'ye. Turnkey. Is that all ? Only thank'ye ? 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 7 1 
 
 Log. Oh, want some tippery ! {Gives money). There ! {Exit Turnkey 
 Brothers, your most obedient. Some of my friends, thinking my learning 
 was not complete, have sent me to your College to finish my education ; not 
 that I owe anything ! 
 
 Omnes. Oh, no ! we none of us owe anything ! Oh ! dear no. 
 
 Log. I'm only here on suspicion of debt. 
 
 Omnes. That's the case with all of us ! we're all of us only here on 
 suspicion ! 
 
 Log. You'll not find me a bad chum but ready to hunt down any game 
 you can start. Landlady, serve them with a glass of tape, all round ; and 111 
 stand Sammy 
 
 Omnes. A regular trump ! ( Landlady serves them all with liquor, out of a 
 bladder, as directed ; Logic pays). 
 
 Smug. Well, while I can blow my cloud, and get a drop on the sly, I sets 
 the Excise at defiance. What's a little smuggling? 
 
 Poor T. {Aside). Could I have conveyed the value of that liquor to my 
 wife and children, it might have saved them another day from starvation ! 
 
 Log. {Ovei'hearing). What! hard up! wife and children starving! that 
 sha'n't be while Bob Logic has a quid left. Here, my honest fellow, go fill 
 their bellies and make them happy.- {Gives money). 
 
 Poor T. May heaven bless you, Sir you know not half the good you have 
 done ! [Exit poor T. ] 
 
 Log. No : but I know one thing enough, and that is, the value of money 
 a prison is the only place to learn that in ; and if ever I get out again 
 
 Writer TOM and JERRY. 
 
 Log. Ah, Tom and Jerry ! my boys ! this is kind indeed ! 
 
 Tom. Never desert an old pal in limbo, Bob ; but when you get safe out of 
 the river tick, take my advice, look into not over your affairs ; if young men 
 would but deign to consider this, would but, in the flowery wilds of pleasure, 
 cast one glance at the guiding star of prudence their pockets would be more 
 full, and the prisons of the law more empty. 
 
 Log. Never doubt me, Tom but welcome to 'Freshwater Bay,' to my 
 new settlement on board the Never- Wag man of war ; homeward station 
 forced to be on good terms with others, if I am not with myself 
 
 Jerry. Still as lively as ever, eh, Doctor ? 
 
 Log. And so will you be when the haberdasher has served you with a good 
 yard of tape. 
 
 Jerry. * Haberdasher ! Tape ! ' I'm at fault again. 
 
 Logic. The haberdasher is the whistler, otherwise the spirit-merchant 
 Jerry and tape the commodity he deals in It's a contrabrand article here 
 white is Max, and red is Cognac. 
 
72 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Jerry. Then give me a yard and a half of red, if you please. 
 
 {Landlady gives Jerry liquor). 
 
 Enter TURNKEY, with a ht'er. 
 
 Turn. Here's a stiffener for you, Doctor ! 
 
 Log. A letter for me ! 
 
 Turn, It 'aint paid for. 
 
 Log. More tip, eh ! {Pays him). This fellow's a regular leech ! you never 
 use any chalk here ? 
 
 Turn.. Can't afford it ; besides it ain't in our way, and then it makes such 
 a mess over the walls. 
 
 Log. {Opening the letter). Aye, aye, that will do, go along {Exit Turnkey) 
 What's this? Five hundred pounds! {Takes out note). Wheugh ! Let me 
 read " Sir Jeremy Brag and the Captain, present compliments to Doctor 
 Logic, request his acceptance of the enclosed, to free him from his present 
 difficulties ; it is the same sum his friends threw away on an odd trick the 
 other evening. If Mr. Logic and his friends will look in at the Venetian 
 Carnival, this evening, they will be joined by the Captain, Sir Jeremy, the 
 Miss Trifles, and the Mendicants from the Holy Land ; when, if properly 
 solicited, the Masqueraders may unmask." Prodigious ! Tm at fault here. 
 I'll away at once ; drop the debt and costs in the hatchway, and be off to the 
 Carnival. 
 
 Tom. We'll go with you, Doctor. [Exeunt Tom, Jerry, and Logic. 
 
 Smug. Why, they've hoisted sails, lads well, success to them oh the 
 changes of life ! 
 
 CHORUS. r^m^es;. 
 
 Air. * Here we go up, up, up." 
 
 Some there are up, up, tip. 
 
 And some there are down, down, down. 
 But whether above or below. 
 
 Let us always take care of the crown. 
 
 They that are out may grin. 
 
 While those that are in may fret, 
 Yet poverty n^er was a sin. 
 And we're sure they can't hang us for debt. 
 Fol, lol. 
 
 [Exeunt. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 73 
 
 SCENE. Leicester Square. Characters dressed in Masquerade, cross the stage, 
 as if going to the Carnival Dominoes lead the way. 
 
 Enter OLD MAID and POODLE followed by CLOWN CLOWN steals 
 POODLE, and pops his oion head in POODLE'S place OlA} MAID 
 enraged, pummels CLOWW Spate till she breaks her fan CLOWN carries 
 her off squalling R. They are followed by grotesgue DWARF, in chintz 
 gown and cap, with big head ; preceded by servants with candles, who also exit. 
 
 Enter LILLIPUTIAN HARLEQUIN, COLUMBINE, and CLOWN ; 
 L. Characteristic PAS de TRIOS, to the " NATIONAL WALTZ ;" little 
 COLUMBINE coquetting between HARLEQUIN and C1.0WN after 
 they are off. O. p. various MASKS enter severally business ad libitum. 
 
 SCENE. Venetian Carnival brilliantly illuminated various characters on 
 
 Music, Lancing, Tumbling, and masquerade business ad libitum, till enter 
 
 Jerry {as Sportsman) and Sue as Domino. 
 
 Sue. {Coming down). What game would you start here, Mr. Sportsman? 
 
 Jerry. None, my pretty Domino I only hunt in Somersetshire ; that's my 
 manor. 
 
 Sue. Manners makes the man, certainly ; but you're making game of me. 
 
 Jerry. I speak truth, by heaven ! Oh, Susan, lovely Susan, never can I 
 forget thee, dear. 
 
 Su^. Indeed ! then Susan takes you at your word. ( Unmasks). 
 
 Jerry. Susan Rosebud ! Astonishment ! then the Captain Miss Trifle, 
 and the pretty ballad singer ! 
 
 Susan. Were one and the same person, your humble servant ! I followed 
 to preserve and reclaim you ; I have done so, and I am happy but your 
 cousin comes, stand aside. \_They retire. 
 
74 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Enter TOM, as Bon Giovanni, with KATE as Domino. 
 
 Tmn. {Advancing with Kate). Could I find one of your sex that would be 
 faithful, I would never rove again. 
 
 Kate, Are you sincere? Tom. By heaven! I am ! 
 
 Kate. Then behold the reward of your sincerity, the constancy of your 
 faithful Kate. {Unmasks). 
 
 Tom. Kate ! oh, my dear Kate ! 
 
 Enter LOGIC, as Doctor Fangloss, m^A JANE in Domino. 
 
 Log. {Advancitig with Jane). I am an L.L.D. and A.S.S. 
 
 Jane. (Umnasks). You are indeed an A-S-S, not to have found me out 
 before. 
 
 Log. What ! my Jenny ! 
 
 Jerry. Don't be astonished, Bob I'll explain all: Tom and I are going 
 to make two matches ; you must make the third form a bunch of matches 
 exchange one imprisonment for another, her arms, you dog ! 'aint you up ? 
 
 Log. I'm fly Oxford has no fellowship like this ! {Embracing Jane). 
 
 Tom, {Coming down with Kate). You are right, Bob, it has not. Well, we 
 have been amused by Life in London, now let us endeavour to profit by it ; 
 let our experience teach us to avoid its quicksands, and make the most of its 
 sunshine ; and in that anticipation let us hope our kind friends will pardon 
 Tom, Jerry, and Logic all their sprees and rambles. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 75 
 
 Jerry Going Back to the Country. 
 
 THREE merry boys were Logic, Tom and Jerry, 
 
 And many funny larks they have seen ; 
 
 Farewell, gay London, the country calls me home again, 
 
 The coach moves on the play is done Goodbye, Goodbye. 
 
 The White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly : 
 
 Was now the parting scene, and the hand of the clock pointed very near to 
 the time for the departure of the coach. The bustle of this place prevented 
 the Trio from much conversation ; but the separation of sxxch. staunch pals vf?i5 
 a trying moment to the feelings of poor Jerry : and though he was above 
 blubbering like a Johnny Raw, yet his Heart was rather touched, and his ogles 
 underwent some queer sensations, which he endeavoured to suppress, when 
 Coachy asked " if all was right " and began to smack his whip. 
 
 The hearty grasps of the hand, and the good-byes were over between 
 Hawthorn and his pals, and Tom and Logic were only waiting to see the 
 coach start, when Jerry, with much eagerness of expression, as if he had 
 forgotten to mention the circumstance previously, said, ** my dear Coz " 
 but the coach was now fast rattling over the stones, and the last broken 
 sentence which the ear of the Corinthian caught was, ** Mention me in the 
 kindest manner to the lovely Sue ; tell her I am only gone into training, 
 and in the course of a few weeks I shall most certainly return to London to 
 enjoy a few more sprees (which I have so unexpectedly been deprived of), 
 and also to have with her the pleasure of another game at romps." 
 
 The End. 
 
76 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Adelphi version of Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, 
 was performed ninety-three nights in succession ; and its goldeii 
 career only stopped by the termination of the season. At the 
 end of which, Little Bob Keeley, who had made a great hit as 
 Jemmy Green a character imported into the piece by Mr. W. 
 T. Moncrieff went with Walbourn, the great Dusty Bob, and 
 Cooper, who played to the life, Little Jemmy, the cripple, to 
 Sadler's Wells Theatre, were Pierce Egan's own version was 
 produced April 8th, 1822. Keeley was threatened by the 
 Adelphi lessees Messrs. Rodwell and Jones with an action 
 for breach of engagement, but the action was never brought. 
 In the season of 1822-3 at the Adelphi, John Reeve ' Glorious 
 John!' became Jerry Hawthorn, Mr. Brown took the part of 
 Jemmy Green, and several other changes in the original cast 
 were effected. At Christmas, 1822, Tom and Jerry was com- 
 pressed so as to admit of the production of a pantomime called 
 Beauty and the Beast^ or. Harlequin and the Magic Rose. When 
 the managers announced that : 
 
 " In consequence of the astonishing Overflows to witness the 
 admired Extravaganza of Tom and Jerry, or Life in London, 
 and to prevent, as far as possible, any unpleasant Disappoint- 
 ment, the Public are respectfully informed that : 
 NO PLACES, IN FUTURE CAN BE KEPT, UNLESS 
 
 PAID FOR WHEN TAKEN. 
 Shouts of Laughter and Applause attend each Representation of 
 the New Pantomime." 
 
 When the long run of Tom and Jerry ended at the Adelphi, 
 a spectacular extravaganza of the same kind was produced with 
 the title of " Green in France," but it did not catch the 
 fancy of the town like its predecessors.* 
 
 * E. L. Blanchard's History of the Adelphi Theatre. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 77 
 
 In 1825, Mr. MoncriefF published his dramatic version of 
 Tom and Jerry; or, Life in London which he dedicated to : 
 
 His Royal Highness, Frederick Duke of York, 
 May it Please Your Highness : 
 
 The distinguished honour conferred by your Royal Highness 
 on this Drama, in commanding and witnessing its performance at 
 the Adelphi Theatre, (an honour unprecedented in the annals 
 of the Minor Stage) and the flattering manner in which your 
 Royal Highness was afterwards graciously pleased to express 
 your high approbation of it, emboldens me, with the most pro- 
 found respect, to lay it at your Royal Highness's feet, and under 
 the sanction of your illustrious name, commit it in its present 
 form to the world. 
 
 Having no higher pretensions than that of presenting a faith- 
 ful picture of the various scenes it pourtrays, the favourable 
 opinion of your Royal Highness stamps it with an authority that 
 was alone wanted to crown the success with which it has been 
 received by the Public. 
 
 Like the illustrious Haroun al Raschid, your Royal Highness 
 is said to have made yourself acquainted with the many coloured 
 changes of life ; presented in the people over whom you may be 
 one day called to preside, by wisely throwing off the restraint of 
 rank, and witnessing nature in its genuine state. That the 
 scenes I have pourtrayed are not caricatured for the sake of 
 dramatic effect, but are actually those which might have been 
 seen by any one choosing to seek them, your Royal Highness 
 can therefore adequately testify; and your Royal Highness's 
 imprimatur will effectually ward off all the imputations that have 
 been cast upon my motives and veracity, by the bigoted and 
 envious. 
 
 I have the honour to be, 
 
 With the most profound respect and devotion, 
 
 Your Royal Highness's 
 
 Most obedient and very humble Servant, 
 
 104, Drury Lane, W. T. Moncrieff. 
 
 Dec. 15, 1825. 
 
78 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Mr. Moncrieff in his Dedication To His Royal Highness : 
 and in his Preface that follows throws so much true light and 
 shade on public opinion pro et con of the period, that we 
 deem it not only desirable but instructive to the present genera- 
 tion to publish the same in extenso. 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 " It is scarcely necessary to observe this Drama is founded 
 on the " Life in London " of my friends Pierce Egan, and 
 the inimitable* Cruickshank. Aided by Pierce's clever 
 illustrations to the matchless series of plates to that work, I have 
 in this piece, endeavoured to put them into dramatic motion ; 
 running a connecting story through the whole, making such 
 modifications and amplifications, and furnishing such reflections 
 and results, as I deemed necessary. From the popularity of the 
 subject, the novelty and acknowledged truth of the various 
 scenes comprised in it, and the beauty of the music I fortunately 
 selected, this Piece obtained a popularity, and excited a sensa- 
 tion, totally unprecedented in Theatrical History; from the 
 highest to the lowest, all classes were alike anxious to witness 
 its representation ; Dukes and Dustmen were equally interested 
 in its performance, and Peers might be seen mobbing it with 
 Apprentices to obtain admission. Seats were sold for weeks 
 before they could be occupied, every Theatre in the United 
 Kingdom, even in the United States, enriched its coffers by 
 performing it ; and the smallest tithe-portion of its profits, 
 would for ever have rendered it unnecessary for its Author to 
 have troubled the public with any further productions of his 
 Muse. It established the fortunes of most of the Actors engaged 
 in its representation, and gave birth to many publications and 
 several newspapers. The success of the '* Beggar's Opera," 
 the " Castle Spectre," and " Pizarro," sunk into the shade 
 before it. In the furore of its popularity, persons have been 
 known to travel post from the furthest parts of the Kingdom to 
 see it ; and five guineas have been offered for a single seat. 
 These facts are not recapitulated here from any feeling of 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 79 
 
 egotism the success of this Drama, was the temporary rage of 
 the moment, from time-serving circumstances, and was never 
 regarded in any other light by its Author ; they are merely 
 noticed as curious events in threatrical history. With respect 
 to the cry of immorality, so loudly raised by those inimical to 
 the success and plain-speaking of this piece, it is soon answered ! 
 To say nothing of the envy of rival Theatres feeling its attraction 
 most sensibly in their Saturday Treasuries, those notorious pests 
 the Watchmen ; dexterously joined in the war-howl of detraction 
 raised against it, and by converting every trifling street-broil into 
 a " Tom and yerry row" endeavoured to revenge themselves 
 for the expose its scenes afforded of their villany and extortion ; 
 but all in vain. In vain, too, it was the Actor's old rivals, the 
 Methodists, took the alarm in vain they distributed the whole 
 of the stock of the Religious Tract Society at the doors of 
 the Theatre in vain they denounced " Tom and Jerry " 
 from the pulpit in vain the puritanical portion of the Press 
 prated of its immorality in vain the prejudices of the stiff- 
 backed part of the Bench the hypocritical host of Saints cried 
 it down, and preached woe and destruction to those who sup- 
 ported it. They but increased the number of its followers, and 
 added to its popularity. Vainly, too, was the Lord Chamberlain 
 called upon to suppress it His Grace came one night to see it, 
 and brought his Duchess the next. It was nearly the same with 
 the Chief Magistrate of Bow Street : his experience rendered 
 him perfectly sensible, that, long before the appearance of " Tom 
 and ycrry^^ young men and country gentlemen would in 
 moments of hilarity, sometimes exceed in their potations, be 
 provoked into quarrels by designing Watchmen, and consigned, 
 for purposes of extortion on the following morning, to His 
 Honour, the Night Constable ; but according to the Saints' 
 accounts, to believe their tales, it must be held as a point of faith, 
 that no one, previous to the appearance of '' Tom and Jerry y* 
 ever got into a row ! Oh, no drinking and all its train of follies 
 were unknown to youth, until inculcated into their minds by the 
 example of " To7n and Jerry ! " How many an unsuspecting 
 Country Cousin has been converted, in the public newspapers, 
 through an hour of harmless frolic, into a Jerry ; while his 
 equally unconscious Town relation figured as a Tom, and any 
 
8o THE HISTORY OF 
 
 honest plodder they may have had with them is transformed in- 
 to a Bob Logic his first appearance in that character. The 
 thing speaks for itself : the hue and cry of the immorality and 
 danger of this piece was raised merely for the purposes of 
 plunder, by Watchmen and others. So far from being immoral, 
 if the piece be fairly examined, it will be found to be as correct 
 in its tendency as any production ever brought on the stage. 
 The obnoxious scenes of life are only shown that they may be 
 avoided : the danger of mixing in them is strikingly exemplified ; 
 and every incident tends to prove, that happiness is only to be 
 found in the domestic circle. 
 
 " It has been said, that many of the scenes of this piece should 
 not have been exhibited, being scenes of dissipation, riot, and 
 impropriety ridiculous ! Has not Shakespeare asserted that 
 the proper use of the drama is " to hold, as 'twere, the mirror 
 up to nature, to show virtue her own feature, and vice her own 
 image, and the very age and body of the time its form and pres- 
 sure : " could any piece do this more effectually than " Tom 
 and yerry ? " take away the scenes complained of, it ceases to 
 show the form and pressure of the age and time. 
 
 " I should not have published this piece had not its success 
 produced such a host of imitations and plagiarisms, that more 
 to prevent myself suffering from the demerits of others than to 
 avail myself of any merits of my own. I give it with all its im- 
 perfections on its head, to the world ; willing to pay smart blimt 
 for my own misdeeds, but wot stand Sajn my for those of others. 
 To those venerable noodles who complain that I and my proto- 
 type. Pierce, have made this the age of flash ; I answer any age 
 is better than The age of cant ! I tell my pious lecturers, in 
 plain terms, I shall always feel pleasure in reflecting that I have 
 in this piece, nosed every move on the board, in the game of the 
 spell; opened the ogles of the green and the yokel, and the muff, 
 and the raw ; struck a light on the darky of their knowledge 
 boxes, flashed the gab of the prig, the leg, the scamp and the 
 stringer, in their listeners, put them fly and awake to all they 
 should be up and down to, and enabled them, if their lugs are at 
 all wing to the bits oi good truth, pattered to them in every scene 
 of this piece, bank their rag, chivey their nurses, nash their lead- 
 ing strings, and keep out of the way of the cut-along-coaches as they 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 8l 
 
 travel the high tohy of existence ; and having so done, can lay 
 my 7nawley on my core^ and conscienciously chaunt my convic- 
 tion, in which my reader will bear me out, " that I've cut all the 
 buzmen^ and done the thing right '^ 
 
 AV. T. M. 
 104, Drury Lane, 
 Dec. 15, 1825. 
 
 The Dustman. 
 
 Bring out your dust the dustman cries, 
 
 Whilst ringing of his bell : 
 If the wind blows, pray guard your eyes, 
 
 To keep them clear and well. 
 
82 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Pierce Eg an 
 
 ON 
 
 Mr. Walbourn's ''Dusty Bob." 
 
 " It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself 
 deserving of praise." 
 
 " Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed." 
 
 Mr. Walbourn's theatrical fame was made by, and, strange to 
 
 say, expired with the character of Dusty Bob. Pierce Egan, in 
 
 his " Life of an Actor," which he dedicated to Edmund Kean 
 
 classes his performance of this part, as giving him a title in 
 
 the niche of fame beside John Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, and all 
 
 the great actors contained in his " Catalogues of Parts Acted " 
 
 which can never be forgotten by those who witnessed them. 
 
 Here is the note, and will be found at page twelve of the work : 
 
 "The personification of Dusty Bob, by the above actor, has 
 
 been unanimously decided by the pubHc to be one of the 
 
 greatest triumphs of the histrionic art ever exhibited on any 
 
 stage. The first tragedian of the day, ^ with the utmost 
 
 liberality, gave it as his opinion, that, during the whole course 
 
 of his theatrical life, he had never seen any performance equal 
 
 to it. Also, a comic actor of the greatest celebrity f exclaimed, 
 
 * Good heaven ! is it possible ? Do my eyes deceive me ? 
 
 Most certainly it is a real dustman they have got upon the stage. 
 
 I am very soriy the profession has descended so low as to be 
 
 compelled to resort to the streets to procure a person of that 
 
 description to sustain the character.' He left the body of the 
 
 theatre in utter disgust nor was it until introduced to 
 
 Mr. Walbourn in person, behind the scenes, that he would 
 
 believe it was an actor. Further praise than this is superfluous'^ 
 
 * Mr. Edmund Kean. f Mr. Joseph Munden. 
 
TOM AND JERRY 
 
 83 
 
 Mr. Walbourn as " Dusty Bob," was drawn and engraved by 
 George Cruikshank, and sold, with other character-portraits, at 
 the Adelphi Theatre. During the long run of the piece, he 
 exchanged one species of hops for another, as he gave up his 
 business as a private and stage dancing-master, and took the 
 *' Maidenhead " public-house at Battle Bridge. The house, 
 previous to his taking it was doing only a small trade ; but, 
 when he became the landlord, and put out a spick-span new and 
 a "not so dusty" sign of himself as " Dusty Bob," painted in 
 oil by George Cruikshank, it drew together many of the 
 "Dusty" fraternity and their doxies. After that, "Dusty 
 Bob," together with " Black Sal," became to be bye words, as, 
 near to the house, was Smith's dust-yard, at which hundreds 
 were employed, male and female. But : 
 
 " A heap of dust alone remains of thee ; 
 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! " 
 
 G 2 
 
84 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Literary Dustman. 
 
 My dawning genus fust did peep, 
 
 Near Battle Bridge 'tis plain, sirs 
 
 You recollect the cinder heap, 
 
 Vot stood in Gray's Inn Lane, sirs ? * 
 
 'Twas there I studied pic turesque, 
 
 Vhile I my bread vos yarning, 
 
 And there, inhailing the fresh l^reeze^ 
 
 I sifted out my larnin' ! 
 
 They calls me Adam Bell, 'tis clear, 
 
 (As Adam vos the furst man), 
 
 And by a co in side ance queer, 
 
 Vy, I'm the fust of dustmen ! 
 
 A Literary Dustman ! 
 
 The " Old Pub." of sixty years ago is now The Victoria 
 
 Tavern, Great Northern Railway. Maiden Lane is York Road, 
 
 and Battle Bridge is known as King's Cross, from a statue of 
 
 George IV. a most execrable performance taken downin 1842. 
 
 Great sculptors all conwarse wi' me. 
 
 And call my taste diwine, sirs 
 
 King George's statty at King's Cross 
 
 Vas built from my design, sirs. 
 
 The Literary Dustman. 
 
 Besides the authors already mentioned. Tom Dibden, Farrell, 
 
 and Douglas Jerrold, each produced dramas upon the popular 
 
 theme; and during the seasons of 182 1-2, " Life in London" 
 
 was performed with great Sdat, at ten theatres in and around the 
 
 * It is well-known that the dust hill at the bottom of Gray's Inn Lane, 
 near Battle Bridge, was sold for some thousands of pounds, and was shipped 
 off to Russia, to aid in the rebuilding of Moscow. Fierce Egan. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 85 
 
 metropolis, to overflowing houses. But Pierce Egan at length 
 became tired of the successes of the playwrights in using his 
 book, and resolved to try his own hand at a dramatic version 
 or, as he termed it, " to take a leaf or two out of his own book " 
 and the Author's Piece was "got up" and performed for 
 the first time at Sadler's Wells, under the respectable manage- 
 ment of Mr. Egerton, on Monday, April 8, 1822, with most 
 decided success. 
 
 It was thus announced by Mrs. Egerton, in the address 
 written for the occasion by T. Greenwood, Esq. 
 
 " To-night, my friends, this modern taste to meet, 
 We show you Jerry at his country seat ; 
 Then up to town transport the rustic beau, 
 And show him ' Life in London,' HIGH and LOW." 
 
 SADLER'S WELLS THEATRE. 
 
 Under the Direction of Mr. Egerton, of the Theatre Royal, 
 Covent Garden, Sole Proprietor. 
 
 The Brilliant Success, and increasing Attraction of 
 Pierce Egan's " Tom and Jerry " : not exceeded by any 
 performance ever yet produced ; and the celebrated Pony 
 Races, exciting an interest equal to the Race Course itself : 
 being nightly performed to crowded Audiences, amidst Roars 
 of Laughter and Shouts of applause, will be repeated Every 
 Evening, at half-past six o'clock precisely : 
 
 The new Pedestrian, Equestrian, and Operatic Extravaganza : 
 in Three Acts of Gaiety, Frisk, Lark, and Patter, called 
 
86 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Put into Shape, exclusively for this Theatre, by Pierce Egan. 
 
 Who trusts it will not be deemed unfair that he should take a 
 Leaf or Two out of his own Book, several other persons 
 having made free with the Work. The Piece now prepared for 
 representation is not entitled to the appellation of Tragedy, 
 Comedy, Opera, Play, Farce, Ballet, or Melodrama, yet 
 partaking of the Qualities of all, and possessing scenes High 
 and Low in abundance, from the " Sky Parlour " to the 
 ' Diamond Vault J' Out ajtd Out, Rambles and Sprees, East 
 and West, and Lots of Characters, Up and Down. A variety 
 of Swells but no Dons : Corinthians and Costard-mongers 
 of many Hues and Colours : Flats and Sharps without a Note 
 Pinks and Tulips, but no Flowers, yet always in the Hot 
 Houses: and Hells without Devils, only \\z.\mg Black Legs: 
 Muslin and Hopsacks, according as the creatures wear them : 
 the whole forming a " Bit of Good Truth," en passant, in a 
 Review of Life in London, developed by a precious Trio, in 
 the Persons of a Tupof The Tree Hero t^and Dressed 
 \\\ all suits : seconded by a slap-bang countryman, that neither 
 hedge nor ditch baulk his pursuits ; and in unison with a pri7ne 
 piece of Logic without Premises, yet always so much at Home. 
 that Locke and Bacon were muffs to him : also representing 
 the Noble, Respectable, Mechanical, and Tag Rag and 
 Bob-tail part of Society, which constitute the Corinthian 
 Capital, and the Base of the Pillar. 
 
 The Overture, with the New and Selected Music, by 
 Mr. Nicholson. The Scenes from Drawings taken on the spot, 
 by Mr. Greenwood, assisted by Mr. Milldenhall and others. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 87 
 
 The Sporting Subjects, by Mr. George Cruikshank, from 
 designs by himself and Brother, Mr. I. R. Cruikshank. The 
 Quadrilles and Country Dances, by Mr. Kirby. The Machinery, 
 Platforms, and Race Course, by Mr. Copping. Dresses by 
 Mr. Townley and Mrs. Balding. 
 
 Corinthian Tom 
 
 Jerry Hawthorn ... 
 Bob Logic 
 
 Dusty Bob... Mr. Walbourn. 
 Little Jemmy ... 
 Billy Waters 
 
 African Sal. 
 Mr. Cooper. 
 
 Mr. Elliott. 
 Mr. Keeley. 
 Mr. Vale. 
 ,Mr. Brady. 
 
 Mr. Hartland. 
 
 To Start from the Winning Post on the Stage ; Run three times Round the 
 
 Course. 
 Separate Matches, and afterwards for the Grand Sweepstakes. 
 
 PONY RACES. 
 
 Passing Into and Round the 
 
 Ponies. 
 I. --The Corinthian ... ... 
 
 2. Bob Logic's Miss Sly... 
 3. Jerry's Never to be beat ... 
 
 4 Dusty Bob 
 
 5. Touch and-Go 
 
 6. The Out-and-Outer ... 
 
 Stewards of the Race 
 Clerk of the Course 
 
 Pit. 
 
 Colours. 
 
 Pink. 
 
 Stripe. 
 
 Blue. 
 
 Black. 
 ... Blue and Pink. 
 Scarlet. 
 Logic, Tom, and Jerry. 
 Dusty Bob. 
 
 The eagerness of several Ladies and Gentlemen to 
 Promenade the Course during the Race, having at times 
 produced a temporary delay and inconvenience, they are 
 respectfully intreated to observe the directions of the Clerk 
 of the Course, who will attend with Mrs. Dusty Bob 
 {African Sal) in their Carriage from Maiden Lane, Battle 
 Bridge, for the purpose of preserving order. 
 
8S 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Corinthian's Diary. 
 
 A Celebrated Comic Song, written by 
 T. GREENWOOD, Esq. 
 
 And Sung by Mr. Vale, at Sadler's Wells Theatre, in the 
 Character of Bob Logic. 
 
 SUNDAY, gotjloor'd, in groggy plight, 
 
 MONDAY, quite stale, took anti-bilious, 
 Pester'd by nausea, nerves not quite right. 
 
 And noisy dims quite supercilious : 
 A dish of Mocha, 'chovy toast, 
 
 Remov'd the spasms increased attrition, 
 So started, when I'd skimm'd the Post, 
 
 To Tattersall's, in high condition. 
 
 TUESDAY, got clean'd at Rouge et Noir, 
 And, done quite brown, was forc'd to toddle ; 
 
 So then I vow'd to play no more, 
 
 Lest, like a lame duck, I should waddle. 
 
 /^Jl^:^ 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 89 
 
 WEDNESDAY, reflected; curs'd each star, 
 Swore never more a card to handle : 
 
 Went to the Fives Court, saw them spar, 
 And patronis'd Cribb, Neat, and Randall. 
 
 THURSDAY, bowi'd down to Ascot Heath, 
 
 To sport my blunt upon the races : 
 Rode my own mare almost to death, 
 
 For I had won three steeplechases : 
 Clean'd out again, I came away 
 
 Quite undismay'd, though out of feather. 
 At night I bolted to the play. 
 
 To drown ill-luck and care together. 
 
 Met with a spree^ two glorious frays, 
 
 So went to work I hate long parleys ; 
 Kick'd up a row, then starred the glaze, 
 
 And mill'd, in style, a brace of Charley's : 
 Morris' d away to Almack's Rooms, 
 
 Danc'd a quadrille, alert and showy, 
 Call'd at the Finish, mops and brooms, 
 
 And tumbled to bed as drunk as Chloe. 
 
 FRIDAY, I went to see dear Nancy, 
 
 But found a Covey there before me. 
 Was forc'd to bolt, I'd lost my chance. 
 
 But Kate, I knew, would still adore me : 
 So off I set, stay'd SATURDAY, 
 
 My comforts took, then home departed ; 
 Book'd for next week, with spirits gay, 
 
 I for a fresh game, on SUNDAY started. 
 
90 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 SADLER'S WELLS. 
 
 PIERCE EGAN, 
 
 The A^tthor 
 
 TOM & JERRY ; 
 
 or, 
 
 Life in London, 
 
 Most respectfully informs the Public, and his numerous Friends in the 
 Sporting World, that : 
 
 (Before "all the Gold is taken off the Gingerbread," being contented 
 with a Small Slice of it,) his 
 
 BENEFIT 
 
 is fixed for 
 
 Wednesday 
 
 The 25th September, 1822, 
 
 When a Variety Entertainment, will be performed, in which 
 
 THE AUTHOR 
 
 Will make his First and only Appearance on this Stage, in a 
 PRINCIPAL CHARACTER. 
 
 LIFE IN A SPREE 
 
 A Spree's the thing, with potent port made merry, 
 " Go it Bob Logic," "Keep it up," cries Jerry. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 The Upper Story all abroad Mr. Lushington at Work ; and when the Wine 
 is in, the Wit is out Ripe for any thing How to make a Stop Watch 
 go And getting the best of the Timekeepers Must make a noise in the 
 World : 
 
 No way but this left to obtain renown, 
 
 Kick up a Row, and knock the Charlie's down ! 
 
 LIFE IN THE EAST. 
 
 All-Max A bit of good Truth ! 
 
 Tickets not necessary Any Port in a Storm Never a Jack without a 
 Jill All happiness : no questions asked : and one half the world don't 
 know how the other half lives (or dies ! ) No matter! Plenty of Taste 
 Patter without ceremony And not particular to a shade about Lingo. 
 Spoting a toe without a shoe, and no enquiry after the SnoFs Bill Reeling 
 without steps Flooring instead of Waltzing, and nothing the matter. 
 Country or colour no objection Ladies in moui-ning not prohibited Black 
 Sail don't blush for her appearance -And Dusty Bob not uneasy about his 
 toggery All the same One Hundred Years hence ! Philosophy. 
 
 %* To prevent the trouble and fatigue of ascending the numerous Steps 
 to the Author's Sky Parlour, (in Days of Yore, denominated a Garret^ 
 as well as Tumbling over lots of Kids,) Tickets to be had of Messrs. 
 Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row ; Office of the Weekly 
 Dispatch, Wine Office Court, Fleet Street ; at all the Sporting Houses ; 
 and Places for the Boxes can be taken of Mr. Parker, at the Box Offices, 
 Sadler's Wells, from lo till 4. 
 
 Full Particulars will be duly Announced. 
 
 Boxes 4s. Pit 2s. Gallery is. 
 
 Glendinning, Printer, 25, Hatton Garden, London. 
 
92 THE HISTORV OF 
 
 Brighton, of course, in common with all other large provincial 
 towns had its version of " Life in London." The theatre was 
 then under the management of Mr. Samuel or, as he was 
 commonly known, Jerry Sneak Russell, from the inimitable 
 manner in which he personated that character in Foote's farce of 
 "The Mayor of Garrat." We have a copy of the play-bill 
 before us, and as we think the manager's remarks and the 
 selection of criticisms are in their way curious, we here append 
 them, including the cast of characters : 
 
 THEATRE ROYAL, BRIGHTON. 
 
 LAST NIGHT BUT ONE. 
 
 TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 In announcing the successful piece of "Tom and Jerry " for 
 this evening, the manager feels great satisfaction in being able 
 to quote in its favour the following observations from the 
 critiques in the London and other newspapers. " The scenery, 
 dresses, &c., are good throughout, and much credit is due to the 
 manager for the style in which it is got up. It is with pleasure 
 we remark that this piece has been most judiciously freed from 
 the impurities of dialogue, which rendered it improper to meet 
 the delicate ear of the gentler sex. We therefore venture, with- 
 out subjecting ourselves to reproach, to recommend our readers 
 to see 'Life in London,* to witness an exposure of many 
 impositions practised in real life, and be made * fly ' (the plain 
 English of au fait) to the multu7n in parvo phrases which are 
 now introduced into passing conversations." 
 
 " Brighton. The theatre at this place has just produced its 
 ' Tom and Jerry ' with great success, and, we may say, 
 deservedly every objectionable point that might be thought to 
 infringe on decorum having been most ingeniously suppressed, 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 93 
 
 without any diminution of the whim and fire of its varied and 
 entertaining scenes. This regard to propriety argues much dis- 
 cretion, and seems to meet the approbation of the beau monde 
 resorting hither, for the theatre is graced with abundance of 
 fashion and beauty." 
 
 *' The ' Tom and Jerry ' of the Brighton Theatre has good 
 scenery, good acting, and, what in such a piece is perhaps still 
 better, good and chaste dialogue to recommend it ; it has been 
 cleansed of its impurities without injuring its life and spirit. As 
 thus represented, it cannot raise a blush on the cheek of the 
 most fastidious female." 
 
 On Wednesday Evening, September 12, 1822, will be repro- 
 duced the highly popular and amusing Burletta of 
 
 TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Corinthian Tom Mr. Power. 
 
 Bob Logic Mr. Chapman. 
 
 Jerry Hawthorn Mr. Russell. 
 
 Squire Hawthorn Mr. Chambers. 
 
 Tattersall Mr. Mortimer. 
 
 Yorkshire Cove Mr. Hatton. 
 
 Primefit Mr. Julian. 
 
 BQlChaunt Mr. Whatford. 
 
 Dusty Bob Mr. Starmer. 
 
 Mr. Mace . . (Landlord of All Max in the East) . . Mr. Jenkins. 
 
 Billy Waters Mr. Sheen. 
 
 Mr. Muff . . Mr. Collier. Gammoning Jack . . Mr. Mills. 
 
 Snoozy . . Mr. Cole. Trifle . . Mr. Dale. 
 
 Little Jemmy.. Master Williams Chaffing Sam .. Mr. Wiber. 
 
 Tom Belcher Mr. Jones. 
 
 President of the Daffy Club Mr. Campbell. 
 
 Huntsmen, Watchmen, Villagers, Cadgers, &c., &c. 
 
94 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Corinthian Kate Miss M. Cooke. 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Gadabout Mrs. Clarke. 
 
 Patty Primrose Miss Carr. 
 
 Mary Miss Cramer. 
 
 Hon. Mrs. Trifle Miss Grosette. 
 
 Fortune Teller Mrs. Grosette. 
 
 Mrs. Allright Miss H. Grosette. 
 
 African Sal Miss Black. 
 
 Country Lasses, Ladies at Almack's in the West, &c., &c. ; Prospectus of 
 Scenery, &c.. Sec, as before. 
 
 To conclude with the Romantic Melo-drama of 
 
 VALENTINE AND ORSON. 
 
 Valentine Mr. Power. 
 
 Orson Mr. S. Chapman. 
 
 Creasy, Printer, Gaze^ie Office, Brighton. 
 
 The notoriety which Tom and Jerry obtained in England, 
 became the topic of conversation amongst our Gallic neighbours 
 nay, it crept so much into favour with the gay folks of Paris, 
 Life in London was speedily translated into French, under the 
 title of " The Diorama ; or, Picturesque Rambles in London 
 containing the most faithful Notices of the Character, Manners, 
 and Customs of the English Nation, in the various classes of 
 
 Society. By M. S ." The translation had a most extensive 
 
 circulation in France. 
 
 The reception of Tom and Jerry was equally flattering not- 
 withstanding the great prejudices that had previously existed 
 against it in Dublin. Mr. Wrench, from the Adelphi Theatre, 
 was specially engaged to play the part of Corinthian Tom. The 
 first seven nights produced ;,^i3oo ; and the house, on 
 Mr. Wrench's benefit night, held ;"345. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 95 
 
 The great success of " Life in London," in its dramatic form 
 in the Irish capital lead up to the publication of : 
 
 " Real Life in Ireland ; or, the Day and Night Scenes, 
 Rovings, Rambles, and Sprees, Bulls, Blunders, Boddera- 
 tion, and Blarney of Brian Born, Esq., and his elegant 
 inend Sir Shaw?i O'Dogherty. 1829. Coloured plates." 
 
 In which the pictorial style of the Brothers Cruikshank was 
 imitated from an Hibernian point of view and colouring. 
 
 At both the Theatres in Edinburgh, Tom and Jerry attracted 
 crowded audiences, according to the Editor of the Edinburgh 
 Dratnatic Review, who states thus : 
 
 "At length the public of Edinburgh had opportunity of 
 judging of the merits of the above celebrated Extravaganza. 
 From the general tendency of the remarks which appeared in 
 the newspapers, we were led to suppose that this piece consisted 
 of indecency and gross vulgarity. From what we heard reported 
 as to the numerous indelicacies which this sketch of Fun, 
 Frolic, Fashion, and Flash contained, we were afraid that its 
 success with our sober citizens would have been precarious ; 
 but, we are happy to say, that the applause which was bestowed 
 on it by the unprecedentedly numerous assemblage on Saturday 
 evening, January 25, 1823, which crowded the Caledonian 
 Theatre, is a sufficient answer to the chimerical doubts which 
 were industriously circulated against its propriety. There is 
 nothing, as we before remarked, associated with disgust or 
 offence. There is neither one word, action, or situation, in the 
 whole course of the piece, that can possibly raise a blush, or 
 offend the most fastidious moralist ! " 
 
96 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Burletta of Tom and Jerry had been repeated so often 
 all over the kingdom, and particularly in the metropolis, that 
 the performers, notwithstanding the great applause they nightly 
 received in the above piece, absolutely became tired and worn- 
 out with the repetition of their characters, when the following 
 piece of satire, written by T. Greenwood, Esq., was published, 
 entitled, " The Tears of Pierce Egan, Esq., for the Death ot 
 * Life in London ' ; or. The Funeral of Tom and Jerry. 
 Dedicated to Robert and George Cruikshank, Esqs. Price Two 
 Shillings, with an engraving by George Cruikshank." 
 
 " Beat out of the Pit, and thrown over the Ropes, 
 Tom and Jerry resign'd their last breath. 
 With them, too, expired the Manager's hopes, 
 Who are left to deplore their sad death ! 
 
 " Odd and various reports of the cause are about. 
 But the real one was this I opine : 
 They were run to a standstill^ and, therefore, no doubt, 
 That the cause was a rapid decline, 
 
 " When death showed his Nob^ out of Time they were beat, 
 And neither would come to the scratch ; 
 They hung down their heads and gave up the last heat, 
 Not prepared with the Spectre to match. 
 
 " All wept at the P'uneral ! the Fancy and all 
 Some new, but a great many mended : 
 And Egan, while Cruikshank and Bob held the pall. 
 As Chief Mourner in person attended ! ! ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 97 
 
 '* Their Sprees and their Rambles no more shall amuse, 
 Farewell to all nocturnal parleys : 
 The Town felt regret, as the bell tolled the news, 
 And no one rejoiced but the Charleys I 
 
 " A monument, too, their kind Patrons will raise. 
 Inscribed on' Here lies TOM and JERRY, 
 Who, departing the Stage^ to their immortal praise, 
 
 ONE THOUSAND NIGHTS made the Town 7nerry ! I ! ' 
 
 " May their souls rest in peace, since they've chosen to flit, 
 Like other great heroes departed ; 
 May no mischief arise from their sudden exit. 
 Nor Pierce Egan die broken-hearted r"* 
 
 In reference to the above, Pierce Egan states that Jemmy 
 Catnach, the renowned Ballad-monger of the Seven Dials, in 
 less than twelves hours after the publication, produced a pirated 
 edition for street sale, for two-pence. 
 
 Mr. Pierce Egan, in his " Finish^' states that he reckoned no 
 less than sixty-five separate publications, which he enumerates 
 in extefiso, all derived from his own work, and adds, with his 
 usual amount of large and small Capitals and italics " We 
 have been pirated, copied, traduced ; but, unfortunately, not 
 ENRICHED by our indefatigable exertions ; therefore notoriety 
 must satisfy us, instead of the smiles of FORTUNE. Our 
 efforts have given rise to numerous productions in the market of 
 literature, yet we can assert, with a degree of confidence hitherto 
 unshaken, that none of our Imitators have dared to think for 
 themselves during the long period of seven years, neither have 
 
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98 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 they shown any originality upon the subject of 'Life in 
 London ' ; but who have left it disinterested souls ! to the 
 Author and Artist to put a CLIMAX to the adventures of Tom, 
 Jerry, and Logic." The last remark is in reference to the 
 publication of " Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of 
 Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their Pursuits through Life in and 
 Out of London. With numerous coloured illustrations by 
 Robert Cruikshank. London : George Virtue & Co., Ivy Lane, 
 Paternoster Row." Seven years after the date of " The Life in 
 London." In common with almost all other sequels, or " con- 
 tinuations " it was not successful the fact being that Pierce 
 Egan, and the subject of his work were alike literally and 
 financially " used up ! " 
 
 Old Jemmy Catnach, true to his line of life, soon joined what 
 Pierce Egan designates as the " Mob of Literary Pirates." who 
 irritate the poor author almost to madness, blast his prospects, 
 impose on the unwary by their imitations, and render his cash 
 account all but nugatory, and, just as he may be congratulating 
 himself on the success of his genius, receiving the smiles of 
 Fame, and a trifling sweetener from Threadneedle Street, as a 
 reward for his exertions, he may be attacked by Sappers and 
 Miners those pickers and stealers who do not absolutely 
 come under the denomination of pickpockets^ yet thieves to 
 all intents and purposes, and, certainly, robbers of the most 
 unprincipled description a set of vampires living upon 
 " the brains " of other persons, and who dare not to think for 
 themselves. 
 
 Catnach brought out a broadside, or "whole-sheet," for 
 street-sale, entitled \ 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 99 
 
 I 
 
 LIFE IN LONDON : 
 
 or, the sprees of 
 Tom and Jerry; 
 
 ATTEMPTED IN CUTS AND VERSE. 
 
 Tom, Jerry, and Logick in a Row. 
 
 MERCY ! what a din and clatter 
 Breaks the stillness of the night. 
 
 Lamps do rattle 'tis a battle, 
 Quick, and let us see the sight. 
 
 Notice : This is to give Notice to those persons 
 who are in the habit of pirating my copyrights that if 
 they dare to print any part of this Sheet, they shall be 
 proceeded against according to Law. James Catnach. 
 
 EIGHTEENTH EDITION. 
 
 B 
 
 London : Printed & Sold by Jas. Catnach, 
 
 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials, of whom may be had 
 
 The Queen's Life, in Cuts & Verse. 
 
 PRICE TWO PENCE. 
 
 H 2 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The "broadside," which Pierce Egan calls " Another wicked 
 piracy, by Catnach," consists of twelve woodcuts, of which 
 we have given facshniles in our pages it will be seen that 
 they are reduced and very roughly executed copies of the 
 original plates by the Brothers Cruikshank, but in reverse. 
 Therefore the swaggering Notice to Pirates which Jemmy 
 Catnach published reads funny enough. The letter-press 
 matter consists of flash songs, and a poetical epitome of 
 the plot and design of the original work of " Life in London." 
 And taking it as it stands, and from where it emanated, 
 rather a creditable performance, particularly when we take 
 into consideration as duly announced by the street-patterer, 
 that it was "Just printed and pub Hsh ed, all for the 
 low charge of " Twopence." 
 
 On the rarity of this Catnachian and piratical edition of 
 " Life in London " it is superfluous to enlarge, and it is easy 
 to account for this circumstance, if we reflect that the broad- 
 side form of publication is by no means calculated for preser- 
 vation ; hundreds of similar pieces printed at the " Catnach 
 Press " and at other offices publishing for street-sale must have 
 perished. The more generally acceptable a broadside or street- 
 ballad became, and was handed about for perusal, the more it 
 was exposed to the danger of destruction. No copy of 
 Catnach's version is preserved in the British Museum, there- 
 fore, and for reason above stated, it must be considered as a 
 great " Literary Curiosity."* 
 
 * Our thanks are due, and are hereby given to Crawford John Pocock, Esq., 
 of Cannon Place, Brighton, for the loan and use of his what we feel almost 
 inclined to consider unique copy of Catnach's broadside of "Life in 
 London." Price Two Pence. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Old Stage Waggon. 
 As we have before observed, " Life in London " was dedicated 
 by permission to George IV., and it is a circumstance in itself 
 which looks singular enough in this Victorian age, that royalty 
 should have condescended to have had such a work dedicated 
 to it. One paragraph, which we are about to quote, strikes ufj 
 as being a very peculiar and free-and-easy style for an author to 
 address himself to a King of England. It is as follows : 
 
 " Indeed, the whole chapter of ' Life in London ' has been 
 so repeatedly perused by your Majesty in such a variety of 
 shapes from the elegant A, the refined B, the polite C, the 
 lively D, the eloquent E, the honest F, the stately G, the peep- 
 
102 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 o'-day H, the tasteful I, the manly J, the good K, the noble L, 
 the stylish M, the brave N, the liberal O, the proud P, the long- 
 headed Q, the animated R, the witty S, the flash T, the knowing 
 U, the honourable V, the consummate W, the funny X, the 
 musical Y, and the poetical Z, that it would only be a waste 
 of your Majesty's valuable time to expatiate further upon this 
 subject." 
 
 One notable effect of " Life in London," particularly in its 
 dramatised form, must be recorded. It broke the heart of poor 
 Billy Waters, the one-legged musical negro, who died in 
 St. Giles's workhouse, on Friday, March 21, 1823, whispering 
 with his ebbing breath, a mild anathema, which sounded very 
 much Hke : " Cuss him, dam Tom mee Tom mee Jerry !" 
 
 Poor Billy endeavoured, up to the period of his last illness, to 
 obtain for a wife and two children what he termed, " An honest 
 living by scraping de cat-gut ! " by which he originally collected 
 considerable sums of money at the West-end of the town, 
 where his ribbon-decked cocked hat and feathers, with the grin 
 on his countenance, and sudden turn and kick out of his wooden 
 limb, and other antics and efforts to please, excited much 
 mirth and attention, and were well rewarded from the pockets 
 of John Bull. The burden of Billy's ditty " from morn to 
 dewy eve," and from January to December, was : 
 
 Polly will you marry me Polly don't you cry, 
 Polly will you marry me Polly don't you cry: 
 
 Cry cry cry ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 103 
 
 BILLY WATERS. 
 
 :o :- 
 
 Mr. W. T. Moncrieff, the dramatist, is responsible for the 
 following biographical notice of this old London Street 
 Character : " Of this meritorious and lamented individual, we 
 had with great trouble collected from various sources, an ample 
 and interesting Biography. But unfortunately for posterity, in 
 the same classic regions where he lost his life, we also lost 
 his life ; and, to tell the truth under the influence of the same 
 
I04 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 seductive fluid too ^ Daffy ! we can therefore only present our 
 reader with a few brief notices from memory. 
 
 Billy Waters, was born in the powerful African kingdom of 
 ToNGOCONGOTABOO, where he was a native Prince, and bore the 
 name of Pokikokiquanko ; from this place he was at an early 
 age, to the universal regret of his loving subjects, kidnapped, by 
 ' an auld Quaker,' who bought him from his treacherous attend- 
 ants, for two axes, a frying-pan and a bag of nails. This black 
 piece of business made him a slave, in the French settlement, at 
 Demarara, from whence however he speedly took French leave^ 
 and entered, we believe, the British navy as a cook par excellence 
 on board the Ganymede sloop of war, under the command of 
 Sir John Purvis, where, during a fierce engagement, he lost a 
 leg, some say gallantly fighting the enemies of old England, 
 though others insinuate it was through falling down the cockpit 
 ladder, in his great hurry to hide himself. His own version was 
 that he fell from the top-sail yard to the quarter deck during a 
 storm, we cannot pretend to decide which was the fact, it how- 
 ever occasioned his being sent to England, as unfit for service. 
 Arriving in London, he betook himself to that wild mode of life, 
 which best suited his origin ; the trammels of civilized society, 
 had no charm for him ; he scorned the mechanical rules of man, 
 and picked up his living wherever he could find it Born a 
 Prince, and bearing a native princeliness in his appearance it is 
 not to be wondered at that his associates should speedly elect 
 him to the regal dignity of their tribe. 
 
 In the year 1812 Billy was solemnly inauguared ex cathedra 
 into the sovereignty of mendicityship King of the Beggars at 
 the cellar of St. Patrick in St. Giles', a rank he supported with 
 great satisfaction and majesty, till the luckless period when a 
 
 -% 
 
TOM AND JERRY. I05 
 
 rival Billy (Bodkin), by being placed at the head of the mendi- 
 city society, virtually became King of the Beggars in his own 
 right. This as he conceived it, cruel usurpation by Bodkin, 
 pricked Billy just a leetle too hard. From that moment he 
 drooped as a blighted lily, and like another black hero he 
 exclaimed * Othello's occupation's gone.' The fickle British 
 public refused to be as liberal as they had been, which he 
 attributed to the production of " Tom and Jerry " with whom 
 he was made to partake of : 
 
 " Shoulder of veal and garnish Turkey and appendages Parmesan and 
 Filberts Port and Madeira." Billy on hearing the above list given out as 
 forming the "peck and booze for the evening," exclaimed " Dat dam goot, 
 me like a de Madery Landlord, here, you give this bag of broken wittals, 
 vot I had give to me to day, to some genteel dog vot pass your door : and 
 you make haste wid de supper, you curse devil you." 
 
 Enter LANDLORD with Supper. 
 
 Landlord. Now, your honours, here's the rum peck, here's the supper. 
 
 Billy. Eh, de supper ! de supper ! come along. {After striking Creeping 
 Jack on the fingers with a knife) you damn nasty dog ! what for you putyur 
 dirty fingers in de gravy ? you call dat gentlemans? you want your fingers in 
 de pie, now you got him dei'e ! 
 
 Jack. I only wish'd to taste the stuffining. 
 
 Billy. And now you taste de carver knife instead ! (Takes candle, and looks 
 at supper J. Vy, what him call dis? 
 
 Landlord. Why the turkey and the pie, to be sure. 
 
 Billy. De turkey and de pie ! I tink you said de turkey and de pie, 
 
 what ! de turkey widout de sassinger ! him shock him wouldn't give pin 
 
 for turkey widout dem me like a de Alderman in chain. 
 
 Landlord. I'm very sorry, Mr. Waters, but 
 
 Billy. You sorry ! 1 sorry for my supper, you damn dog, you serve up 
 
 de turkey without de sassinger no lemon to de weal no hoyster saase to de 
 rum'-steaks, who you tink eat rum'-steaks widout de hoyster saase? You 
 send no filberts to de Port, nor debils to de Madery nather. Mee must use 
 some other hot-hell you dog. 
 
 However, by a combination of events, Billy became very poor, 
 and was obliged, prior to his going into the., workhouse, to part 
 
Io6 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 with his old friend, the fiddle. " Him lend him ole fiddle to 
 him uncle at de pop shop," and the wooden//// (leg) which had 
 so often supported Billy, would have shared the same fate, but 
 its extensive service had rendered it worthless though it had 
 twice saved poor Billy from the penalties of the Treadmill. At 
 length, in the full belief that his spirit was about to flee to meet 
 his coloured ancestors in the realms of bliss and a free hunt- 
 ing ground, he duly made his will, in which he bequeathed to 
 W. Bodkin, Esq, Billy Bodkifi, the Hon. Sec. to the Mendi- 
 city Society : a bodkin that had so often pierced Billy to the 
 heart his wooden leg, earnestly desiring he might receive it in 
 his latter end. 
 
 In life he had been accustomed to wear a military cocked hat, 
 a judge's full-bottomed cauliflower wig, and a naval officer's 
 jacket and trousers, symbolical of his being the head and arbiter 
 of the naval, military, and judicial departments in his eleemosyn- 
 ary kingdom, these he bequeathed in the following manner : 
 His wig he left to the Court of Chancery, in the vague hope 
 that they might obtain with it a little of his decision in equity, 
 and promptness in justice. His military hat he left to the 
 Heads of the Horse Guards, and his naval jacket and trousers 
 to the old washerwomen that manage the Greenwich Hospital. 
 The Deal Fiddle, on which he had been used to scrape his 
 native wood notes wild, we are happy to state, was taken out of 
 lavender, and is now in the possession of the Tyburn Ketch and 
 Glee Club the duplicate having been bequeathed to them for 
 that purpose. 
 
 In conclusion we have only to state, that Billy was an accom- 
 plished cadger, a skilful musician, and adroit dancer doing 
 more on one leg than many others on two, and possessed abilities 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 107 
 
 that as an actor would have rendered him a shining ornament to 
 the stage "to hold, as t'were, the mirror up to nature; to 
 show virtue her own feature, scorn her own black image !^^ 
 
 Billy was considered of sufficient public importance, when in 
 \^Q fleshy to be moulded and well baked by a Potter, who taking 
 up and moistening a lump of clay, said, " Be ware ! " and then 
 turned Billy out in one of his happiest moods and positions, 
 with a broad grin on his black i7iug a perfect image^ suitable 
 for a chimney or sideboard ornament ; which found a ready sale 
 at the time of its manufacture, but has now become very rare in 
 perfect condition, and, much coveted by collectors to add to 
 their Class, or Section of " English Characters." Speci- 
 mens of this style of ware are exhibited in the Bethnal Green 
 Museum, London. Henry Willett, Esq. of Brighton, also 
 exhibits his fine collection of the same class of ware at the 
 Brighton Free Public Library. 
 
Io8 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 LINES 
 
 ON 
 
 BILLY WATERS. 
 
 By W. Reeves, June, 1823. 
 
 Peace to the manes of Black Billy Waters, 
 Well-known throughout the Town ! 
 
 The reason that he left these quarters 
 Is plain He was by Death done brown. 
 
 His life was one continu'd round 
 
 Of pleasure and of glee ; 
 His fiddle caus'd the hearts to bound 
 
 Of children as big as me. 
 
 Mags came thick, this made him merry ; 
 
 Fortune changes in a crack 
 Folks they went t'see Tom and Jerry, 
 
 And on Billy turn'd their back. 
 
 Justice, at length, seiz'd on poor Bill, 
 
 Who quickly took \ivs, peg off; 
 So they didn't send him to the Mill^ 
 
 'Cause, why ? he'd got a leg off. 
 
 His day was o'er, he soon found out 
 
 Poverty with rapid stride 
 Follow'd him, and clamor's shout 
 
 Meant poor Billy to deride. 
 
 In vain he fiddl'd, danc'd and sung, 
 
 Until he was out of breath ; 
 Starving he was, his bow unstrung. 
 
 Till he danc'd 7%^ Dance of Death. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. lOQ 
 
 Little Jemmy. 
 
 The real name of this notorious street-character was Andrew 
 Whiston. He was a born cripple, and in every respect a most 
 miserable object of charity. Moncrieff imported him into his 
 Adelphi version of " Tom and Jerry ; or, life in London," as 
 " Little Jemmy," and there figures in the Scene : Back Shims 
 in the Holy Land : in company with Mr. Jenkins, Soldier Suke, 
 Dingy Bet, Creeping Jack, Billy Waters, Ragged Dick, and 
 other well-known characters. Vide page 46. 
 
 For many years Andrew, alias " Little Jemmy," had been in 
 the habit of propelling himself about the streets of London in 
 a little truck, or box on wheels, assisted by the aid of two small 
 crutches. He always wore a white apron to conceal the defor- 
 mity of his legs, which were curved, and had the appearance of 
 thin planks, having no calves. 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 To avoid the penalties attached to begging and vagrancy he 
 usually carried a few quill pens stuck in his coat and apron ; 
 declaring it to be the only trade to which he had been brought 
 up, whence he was called The Penmaker ! He has been heard 
 to acknowledge he derived as much in his perambulations 
 through the streets as amounted to 2 per week. It was his 
 custom every morning to cross over Blackfriars Bridge for the 
 purpose of gathering alms. He always prided himself as leader 
 of the *' Cadgers" in the metropolis, and was one of the most 
 dissipated of the class to which he belonged ; never returning 
 to the hovel, in which he took up his abode, in the Borough, 
 except in a state of intoxication. In his fits of inebriety, when 
 at a distance from home, and incapable of proceeding, he was 
 generally picked up by some of the numerous coalheavers, 
 residing in the same quarter of the town, and carried to his 
 dwelling on their shoulders ; this, from his diminutive stature, 
 was no very difficult task to perform. 
 
 On the night of his death, which occurred Monday, April 3, 
 1826, he had been drinking spirits, and porter, during the day, 
 and was as usual carried home by two men ; for which they 
 were to receive a pot of beer. On setting down their burden, 
 the unfortunate man who had been conveyed with his head 
 downwards, was discovered to be in a dying state. Surgical 
 assistance was immediately procured, but poor " Little yemmy," 
 was quite dead ere it arrived. Information of his death was 
 given at 1 1 o'clock to the night constable of St. Saviour's Parish, 
 who proceeded to the house, the inmates of which refused to 
 give up the body, on the ground that their late lodger died in 
 their debt a month's rent. Another strong reason for their 
 refusal in delivering up the corpse, was a report that prevailed 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 in the neighbourhood, that the surgeons of both the hospitals 
 in the Borough had offered no less a sum than ;"ioo for the 
 body after death, for the purpose of dissection, in consequence 
 of its extraordinary formation. The constable, however, claimed 
 the body of the deceased, as none of his relations were on the 
 spot, and conveyed it away to the watch-house, clearly perceiv- 
 ing that if it was left behind, the inmates would dispose of it to 
 the highest bidder. 
 
 On Friday, April 7, an inquest was held at the Rose and Ball 
 public-house, Bankside, Southwark, before R. Carter, Esq. 
 Upon the return of the jury after viewing the body, all of whom 
 expressed their astonishment at the decrepitude and peculiar 
 formation of the singular little man. The surgeon in atten- 
 dance having described the death to have occurred in con- 
 sequence of apoplexy. The jury brought in a verdict in 
 accordance with the medical evidence that the deceased died 
 of " Apoplexy." 
 
 The day after the inquest sat on the body it was conveyed to 
 St. Saviour's Burial ground, and interred in a grave dug 14 feet 
 in depth from the surface, over which were placed three other 
 coffins, in order to secure it against the resurrection-men, who 
 were anxious to have the corpse to dispose of 
 
 Subsequently to the death of Billy Waters, the notorious 
 black mendicant fiddler March, 1823; "Little Jemmy" 
 acquired the soubriquet of The King of the Beggars. 
 
112 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 m)t STreaU^ptill at BrUiDii, 
 
 In the year 1817, Mr. afterwards Sir William Cubitt, of 
 Ipswich, erected a Tread-Mill at Brixton Gaol and soon after- 
 wards in other large prisons, as a species of prevc7itive punish- 
 me7it, which excited much attention and terror to evil doers, and 
 proved eminently useful in decreasing the number of commit- 
 ments ; the strict discipline had a most salutary effect upon the 
 prisoners not easily to be forgotten. Yet, the inventor's name 
 gave rise to many jokes on the subject among such of the 
 prisoners who could laugh at their own crimes, who said that 
 they were now punished by the cubit / 
 
 In nearly all the new and fa vour ite comic songs of the 
 
TOM AND JERRY. II3 
 
 day allusion was made to the Treadmill of Brixton as 
 The Everlasting Stairs I The Stepping Mill I The New 
 Dancing Academy I &^c. A street-ballad on the subject was 
 issued from the " Catnach Press " and had a most unprece- 
 dented sale, keeping the pressmen and boys working for weeks : 
 
 " And we're all treading, tread, tread, treading, 
 And we're all treading, at fam'd Brixton Mill." 
 
 The following punning ditty was very popular at the period : 
 The Treadmill. 
 
 This Brixton Mill's a fearful ill, 
 
 And he who brought the Bill in. 
 Is threatn'd by the cribbing coves. 
 
 That he shall have a fnilling. 
 They say he shew'd a simple pate, 
 
 To think of felons mending : 
 As every step which here they take. 
 
 They're still in crime ascending. 
 
 And when releas'd, and in the streets 
 
 Their former snares they're spreading, 
 They swear 'tis Parliament, which wills 
 
 They must their old ways tread in. 
 The Radicals begin to think 
 
 'Twill touch the Constitution, 
 
 For as the wheel moves round and round, 
 
 It brings a Revolution. 
 
 But though these snarlers show their teeth, 
 
 And try to vex the nation, 
 Their actions soon are tried dxi^jud^d. 
 
 And grinding is their station. 
 The Gambling swells who near St. James' 
 
 Have play'd their double dealings. 
 Say 'tis not fair that Bow-street should 
 
 Thus work upon their feelings. 
 
 Tom, Jerry, Logic, three prime sprigs. 
 Find here they cannot come it, 
 
 I 
 
114 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 For though their /a;/cy soars aloft, 
 They ne'er will reach the su77imii. 
 
 Corinthian Kate and buxom Sue 
 Must change their warm direction, 
 
 For if they make one. false step more 
 They'll have Cold Bath Correction. 
 
 The moon-struck youths who haunt the stage, 
 
 And spend their master's siller, 
 Must here play to another tune, 
 
 'Tis called the Dusty Miller. 
 Ye bits of blood (the watchman's dread) 
 
 Who love to floor a Charley^ 
 As you delight to strip and fight, 
 
 Come forth and ;///// the barley. 
 
 yoJm Barleycorns 3. stout old blade. 
 
 As every man puts trust in. 
 And you will make no meal of him. 
 
 But he'll give you a dusting. 
 But here we'll stay, iox puns they say, 
 
 Are bad as stealing purses 
 And I to Brixton may be sent, 
 
 To grind some Houry verses. 
 
 Going to the Mill ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY. II5 
 
 THE WARNING. 
 
 Supposed to have been stmg by a Cadger to his Compa7iions on his 
 Return from " The New Dancing Acade7ny^^ Brixton, 
 
 Tune.'' Bow wow, &c." 
 
 You Cadgers all, both great and small, 
 
 Attend to vat I say, Sirs, 
 All prigging stow, or you vill go 
 
 Where I com'd from to day, Sirs. 
 As down the Strand, a Gent so grand, 
 
 Was strutting, mighty fine, Sirs, 
 His hankercher hung out so fur, 
 
 I really thought 'twas mine, Sirs. 
 
 Tol de rol, &c. 
 
 I made a grab he did me nab. 
 
 To quod I quick vas taken ; 
 The magistrate he sat in state : 
 
 I trembrd for my bacon. 
 Evidence o'er^ oh vhat a bore ! 
 
 His eyes on me he fix'd on -, 
 Says he to me, " Go, have a spree 
 
 At the Treading Mill at Brixton'' 
 
 Tol de rol, &c. 
 
 Vhen I reach'd there, a surly bear, 
 
 The steps he bid me mount. Sirs 
 From Dirty Dick, up to the kick, 
 
 Ve'd a swelling black legg'd Count, Sirs. 
 Both high and low, they have a go : 
 
 Oh ! 'tis a decent pill, Sirs. 
 They step avay, and cry all day, 
 
 "The devil take the Mill, Sirs." 
 
 Tol de rol, &c. 
 
 I 2 
 
ii6 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Then varning take, and keep avake, 
 
 For Traps are not asleep, Sirs ; 
 They prowl about, to find us out, 
 
 Like volves do after sheep, Sirs. 
 My life I'll change don't think it strange, 
 
 I'll vork, that's vat I vill, Sirs, 
 Both night and day, to keep away 
 
 From the curs'd Treading Mill^ Sirs, 
 
 Tol de rol, &c. 
 
 In the Adelphi version of "Tom & Jerry," there is as follow: 
 Black Slums in the Holy Land. 
 
 Mr. y. Does any gemmen understand these here Tread Mills, that have 
 lately got such a footing ? 
 
 yack. Silence ! Gemmen : I'm a-going to make a hobservation, Mr. 
 Jenkins means them there Mills as makes you vork vether there's any vork 
 or no I can only say this here, gemmen, if them there Mills are encour- 
 aged, it von't be vorth no body's vile to exercise vone's calling because, vy, 
 von may as veil go and vork for vone's living at once but the subject von't 
 bear not no thinking on. 
 
 Omnes. Not by no means. {General groans). 
 
 Billy Waters. Oh, curse a de Tread Mill, me no like a de ** here we go 
 up, up, up," and " down you go down, down, down," an' if you no work, 
 a great big lump of wood come and knock you down so [Strikes beggar on 
 head with his fiddle, who falls down). Poor fellow, him werry sorry. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 Tom and Jerry; or. Life in London, 
 
 Tune. " Picture of a Playhouse." 
 
 Of Life in London, Tom, Jerry, and Logic I sing, 
 
 'Tis a subject (I hope it will please) 
 
 Men and boys in my ears long time they did ding, 
 
 So I determined to risk a good squeeze 
 
 To the Strand then I toddled the mob it was great 
 
 My watch I found gone pockets undone : 
 
 I fretted, at first, and rail'd against fate, 
 
 For I paid well to see " Life in London." 
 
 Spoken. " I>a, vel now, if I a'n't all of a perspiration, positively, I'm 
 in a mel^ift^ mood ;" this was uttered by a tallow chandler's fat wife. Her 
 hubby, Mr. Wicks, cries out ' ' What the devil are you talking about 
 melting? for my part, I hate mention of business when I'm out on plea- 
 sure." " Come, don't be dipping in my pocket, if you please, Sir." " Vat, 
 vat is de matter ?" " Wat ! who's talking of wats ?" " Vy, my dear Mr. 
 Vicks, I think this man's making a reticule of me." " By the powers ! it 
 is a very fortunate circumstance he be making a reticule for you. Ma'am, for 
 that there young man, in the drab great coat, has just cut yours from the 
 chain, and put it in his pocket." " Mind what you're arter, mind your 
 pockets." " Where are you pushing to ?" " Where am I pushing to ? I'm 
 pushing 
 
 To see Tom and Jerry, 
 The lads who delight in 
 A bottle of Sherry 
 And watch to be fighting, 
 For that's the time o' day. 
 
 In the course of the piece is the parlour of Cribb, 
 
 There they chaunted their songs full of glee ; 
 
 In the chair sits blythe Tom, he's the real boy to fib, 
 
 And he's also the boy for a spree. 
 
 The street-row comes next, and is kept up so well, 
 
 That I laugh'd and never wish'd the fun done. 
 
Il8 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Those who play Charlies, I'm sure they can tell 
 What a street-row is in fam'd London. 
 
 Spoken. '* La ! now, is this not a delightful picture of life! how do you 
 like it, my dear?" "Oh Mamma, I likes it very well, only one thing is, 
 I'm sorry I didn't bring some hapennies out of my money-box, to give the 
 poor beggar-people." " Dear little innocent !" " Was you innocent when 
 you was little, Mamma?" " Yes, my love." " But, are you innocent now, 
 Mamma ?' "Why, yes -that is to say as most women of my age are, my 
 dear." *' Well. Mr. O 'Quiz,' how do- you like the piece?" "Faith, now, 
 the piece is very well, only one thing." " And what may that be, pray?" 
 'Why. I'm not inclined to make any objection at all, at all: but, by my 
 soul ! this is the first time I ever saw or heard of Life in St. Giles's, without 
 an Irishmnn being concerned in it." " Hollo ! what is all this hubbubboo ?" 
 ' Why, it's the half price, pushing in 
 
 To see Tom and Jerry, &c. 
 
 High life and low life are correctly pourtrayed 
 
 At Almack's, I mean both the East and the West. 
 
 The actor's look life, they so well are arrayed, 
 
 But the Back Slums to my mind is surely the best. 
 
 Logic a party invites to give them a treat, 
 
 The bailiff comes in and Bob's undone ; 
 
 He by Nab'em is press' d and ta'en to the Fleet, 
 
 Which brings to a close Life in London. 
 
 spoken The piece being over, there's a grand rush to the doors : then, 
 hey for the pleasures of a soaking wet night. " Well, positively, 'pon 
 honor, if it does'nt rain ; its enough to make any one cross when one's going 
 out to a ball.'''' "Want a coach your honor?" "Yes, drive me to .5"/. 
 Paul's. ^^ " What, in the name of St. Patrick, can he want at the cross and 
 ball oi St. PauVs at this time of night?" "Oh! bless my soul! I think 
 I've broken my leg." " Coach to Cripplegate." " T say, look at that Cove 
 diving at that Gent's pocket" "I hope you'll excuse me, but I've got a 
 cold, therefore want my hankerchief ; but, as you're so fond of dimng, I'll 
 accommodate you- the Thames is near, and you shall have a dam'd good 
 ducking.'' "All. right, Coachee." "Watch! Watch!" "Hark! the 
 Pianos going." "Watch! Watch!" "What's the row?" "Oh! only 
 some fancy Lads, who, having seen the Charlies well mill'd inside, have 
 already commenced milling them outside, and the word with them is 
 
 We're like Tom and Jerry, &c. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 I 9 
 
 The following ballad is from the " Catnach Press :" 
 
 PIERCE EGAN; OR, LIFE IN LONDON. 
 
 Written by a Corinthian, and sung in Prime Twig by an Out-and-Outer. 
 
 In the country, our squire 
 
 Had a very large book, 
 Which into my hands 
 
 I quite often had took ; 
 Life in London, I think, 
 
 Were the name that it had. 
 And 'twas wrote by Pierce Egan, 
 
 That comical lad. 
 Oh, Pierce Egan ! knowing Pierce Egan, 
 You must in your time have seen wonderful fun. 
 
 When I first came from country 
 
 Into this great town, 
 I laugh'd at each joke 
 
 As I walked up and down ; 
 Till three fellows I met. 
 
 They were bold as could be ; 
 And Tom, Jerry, and Logic, 
 
 Say they, you now see. 
 
 Oh, Pierce Egan ! &c. 
 
 At night, in the street. 
 
 You are sure of a row, 
 And the Charlies are bother'd 
 
 I cannot tell how ; 
 But if to the watch-house 
 
 The chaps be all taken. 
 You'll find Egan's heroes 
 
 To be there, sure as bacon. 
 Oh, Pierce Egan &c. 
 
I20 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 E'en the boys in the street 
 
 Do talk flash, you must know, 
 And the real out-and-outers 
 
 Do strut to and fro ; 
 While a gefumen in powder 
 
 From none will retreat, 
 But will peel, a coal-heaver, 
 
 Or dustman to beat. 
 
 Oh, Pierce Egan ! &c. 
 
 And since Life in London 
 
 Has been all the rage, 
 There's nothing else now 
 
 That will do for the stage ; 
 And parsons, and tailors, 
 
 And barbers likewise 
 Go to Spring, Cribb, or Belcher, 
 
 To learn to black eyes. 
 Oh, Pierce Egan ! &c. 
 
 But this I must say 
 
 To my friends in this place. 
 That chaffing and milling 
 
 Does puppies disgrace ; 
 And if they would know 
 
 How such knaves may be undone. 
 They'll read that same book 
 
 Which is called Life in London. 
 Oh, Pierce Egan ! &c. 
 
 J. Catnach, Printer, 2, Monmouth Court, 7 Dials. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 
 
 121 
 
 THE LAST CHARLEY. 
 
 Pity the sorrows of a poor old man." 
 
 St. Giles's clock had sounded two, 
 The moon was on the wane, 
 
 And bitterly the north wind blew ; 
 In torrents fell the rain. 
 
 When like a goblin from the grave, 
 
 A ghastly form appear' d, 
 And thrice a grievous groan it gave, 
 
 Thrice scratch'd its grisly beard. 
 
 Tall, wretched, shiv'ring, pale and thin, 
 
 It brav'd the pelting storm, 
 Without an upper Benjamin 
 
 To keep the carcase warm. 
 
 Prostrate upon the flags it lay, 
 
 Where Seven Dials meet ; 
 And " Och ! " it cried, " is this the way 
 
 A jontleman to treat ? 
 
THE HISTORY OF 
 
 " I soon must haste to join the throng 
 
 On Pluto's dreary coast 
 I've given up my spirits long, 
 
 Now I'll give up the ghost. 
 
 "Yes ! I must go, at fate's command, 
 
 In Charon's ferry boat, 
 And change the rattle in ray hand 
 
 For rattles in my throat. 
 
 " That rattle which the prigs to catch 
 
 Would other Charleys bring, 
 Watchmen^ we know, are like a watch 
 
 Nothing without a spring, 
 
 " My lanthorn ! and the thought, I vow, 
 
 The sob of sorrow draws ; 
 No lanthorn can I carry now. 
 
 Except my lanthorn jaws. 
 
 " With grief unfeign'd my heart is big 
 The power of utterance fails, 
 
 And losing thee, my old Welsh wig. 
 This tortur'd heart be- Wails. 
 
 " My night-cap red, which this poor head 
 Hath screen'd from damp and dew, 
 
 Like my poor cap, I've lost my nap^ 
 And I am worsted too. 
 
 " Snug in my box I bore the shocks 
 Of drunkard's jeer and scoffing ; 
 
 Now the vile cough will take me off, 
 And box me in a coffin. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 23 
 
 " To thee, my pipe, my bosom yearns 
 Those moments, free from pain, 
 
 In which I sat and smok'd returns^ 
 Will ne'er return again. 
 
 " This New Police has laid me flat 
 Let Christian hearts condole ; 
 
 And in the mud they roll poor Pat^ 
 Who once was a Patrol. 
 
 " Och ! when I think of former years. 
 
 It almost drives me crazy; 
 Bear up, my sowl be dry, my tears 
 
 My throbbing heart be azy. 
 
 *' Once I was young, but now I'm owld, 
 Once full of fun and frisky 
 
 But now I shudder with the cowld 
 And the devil a drop of whisky ! " 
 
 He spoke, and sadly gaz'd around 
 (The last words he could utter), 
 
 Then with a mournful guttural sound, 
 RoU'd headlong in the gutter. 
 
 Printed by T. BIRT, < A\ Great St. Andrew-Street, 
 
 (wholesale and retail,) AV^ j Seven Dials, London. 
 
 Country Orders punctually attended to. 
 
 Every description of Printing on the most reasonable terms, 
 
 Children's Books, Battledores, Pictures, &c. 
 
124 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 THE SPREES OF 
 
 TOM, JERRY AND LOGIC 
 
 A New Song, of Flashy Fashion, Frolicy and Fun. 
 
 COME all ye swells and sporting blades who love to see 
 good fun, 
 
 Who in the dark, to have a lark, a mile or two would run ; 
 Here's a dish of entertainment which cannot fail to please, 
 The rigs of Tom and Jerry, and all their jolly sprees. 
 
 With their dash along, flash along, to Life and London haste away, 
 Where sprees and rambles, larks and gambols, is the time of day. 
 From Hawthorn-Hall young Jerry came to see his cousin Tom, 
 And with his friend Bob Logic acquainted soon became. 
 Then to cut a dash, he learns the flash, to act high life and low, 
 And up and down through all the town at night they rambling go. 
 
 In a morning at Tattersall's you may them often see, 
 'Mong jockies, grooms, and chaunters, a knowing company ; 
 In the afternoon they're lounging in Burlington Arcade, 
 And at night they're at the Opera, Ball, or Masquerade. 
 
 Among the miUing kiddy coves young Jerry took delight, 
 And was always first to raise a purse to have a glorious fight. 
 A Fancy blade he then became, and his courage ran so high. 
 That in his room, he floor'd his groom, and black'd his valet's eye. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 25 
 
 Then off to Leicester-fields they'd march, the Strand, or Drury-lane 
 Among the sporting ladies to carry on the game, 
 They'd take them to a gin-shop and treat them round so civil, 
 Then spur them on to fight and scratch each other like the devil. 
 
 While rambling up and down one night they came to Temple-Bar, 
 
 And to have a spree, they did agree, 'gainst the Charlies to 
 make war, 
 
 Then in the twinkling of an eye a watch-box was upset, 
 
 The Watchy roar'd till all was blue, but out he could not get. 
 
 They smash'd their lanterns, kick'd their shins, and did their 
 pipkins crack, 
 
 And laid them down so neatly one by one upon their backs, 
 
 The prigs and sporting ladies all joined in the row. 
 
 But Jerry, Tom, and Logic by the pigs [watchmen] were ta'en 
 in tow. 
 
 Then to the Holy Land they went disguis'd from top to toe, 
 
 To see the Beggar's Opera where all the Cadgers go, 
 
 With Mahogany Bet they had a lark, Black Moll, and Dumpling 
 Kate, 
 
 And treated all the apple-women with a yard of tape [gin]. 
 Now, with your leave good folks I will conclude my flashy song, 
 I hope you're entertained, and I've not detain'd you long, 
 And Logic, Tom, and Jerry, do cordially unite, 
 To thank you for your patronage, and wish you all Good Night. 
 
 With their dash along, &c. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 Printed by J. CATNACH, 2 Monmouth Court, 7 Dials. 
 
 Battledores, Lotteries, and Primers sold cheap. 
 
 Travellers and Shopkeepers supplied with Sheet Hymns. Patter and Slips. 
 
 Songs as Cheap and Good as any Shop in London. Where an 
 
 Immense number of songs are always ready. 
 
 1^ Cards, &c., Printed cheap. 
 
126 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 I'M A CONSTABLE IN MY OWN RIGHT. 
 
 I'm a Constable in my own right, 
 
 I think that I am of some use ; 
 A searching by day and by night ; 
 
 Correcting of every abuse. 
 I carries my staff in my hand, 
 
 My power to let the folks see ; 
 I'm certain all over the land 
 
 There's no one so busy as me. 
 
 And I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 A Beggar I know by his rags, 
 
 A thief I can tell by his looks ; 
 My eyes and my nose never flags, 
 
 I puts 'em down in my black books ; 
 The blind beggars when they sees me 
 
 A coming ne'er stops to stand still ; 
 Tho' ever so lame, they walk free, 
 
 Or else they would walk to the mill. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 The PubHcans all are polite, 
 
 As soon as they sees me come in, 
 They press, and entreat, and invite 
 
 To choose of rum, brandy, or gin ; 
 But from me they gets a rebuff, 
 
 The offer I always decline ; 
 I scorns to take such vile stuff. 
 
 As I never drinks nothing but wine. 
 
 And I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. I27 
 
 The Watchmen don't dare go to sleep, 
 
 They knows they'd be fined if they do ; 
 Round with the Patroles I creep, 
 
 Each morning between one and two. 
 The Patrole's don't like it, 'tis true, 
 
 But of me they all are afraid, 
 And I'm resolved my duty to do. 
 
 For I know there's some cash to be made. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 Old women who sits with the fruit. 
 
 Had better not come in my claw ; 
 I pulls 'em up won't let 'em do't, 
 
 Because 'tis contrary to law : 
 Such nuisances ought to be fin'd 
 
 And I get a share of the pelf; 
 My trouble I never don't mind, 
 
 'Cause I keeps a green-grocer's myself. 
 
 And I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 The Watch-house owns me for its king, 
 
 I reigns there without a control ; 
 If any blackguards they bring, 
 
 I sends 'em down to the black hole ; 
 But if a gentleman gets drunk, so free, 
 
 And is brought in mayhap for a whim 
 
 If he behaves genteel to me, 
 
 Why I behaves genteel to him. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 When I sits in my chair of a night. 
 Should any unfortunate gals 
 
128 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Be brought in, I thinks it but right 
 To commit 'em along with their pals. 
 
 The Toms and the Jerrys I hooks, 
 
 And takes them to Bow Street, next day ; 
 
 Tho' when very sorry they looks, 
 I lets them off if they can pay. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 The butchers' and chandlers' shops, 
 
 What used to be serving o' Sunday, 
 So shockingly wicked, 1 stops ; 
 
 I pulls them all up on the Monday, 
 I shows no favours to none, 
 
 My labours they seem to prove double, 
 And thinks before I have done, 
 
 I shall save Mr. Johnson some trouble. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 Our Parish has got a bad plan, 
 
 'Tis always to quarrel and storm ; 
 I'm sure I shall do all I can 
 
 To bring on a speedy reform : 
 Our Overseers are all quite strange. 
 
 And that any body may see ; 
 It would make a most wonderful change, 
 
 If they all were as busy as me. 
 
 For I'm a Constable, &c. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 Printed by GOLD and WALTON, Wardour Street, Oxford Street, 
 
 For T. Hudson, Kean's Head, Russell Court, Drury Lane, 
 
 1828, 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 129 
 
 When again shall we Three meet, 
 Amongst the Swells in Regent Street ? 
 Come soon, my boy come with glee, 
 For lots of Fun another Spree! 
 
 :o:- 
 
 With respect to the publication of Life in London ; or, the 
 Day and Night Scenes of Tom and Jerry. The proverbial 
 everybody seems for the 7ionce to have been pleased with the 
 work. The thirty six scenes from Real Life, designed and 
 etched by the Brothers Cruikshank had much to do with its 
 success, and everybody seems to have made a great deal of 
 money out of the circumstance save and except the author, 
 Pierce Egan, for he very loudly and frequently, and also 
 " cry -baby -like ^"^ declared inter alia, that he received " more of 
 the kicks than the halfpence" by reason of the Pirates and 
 Thieves being ever on the alert to prig his thoughts and ideas, 
 and that the whole crew of them united. to grab all the " lively 
 things ! " out of his head, and so render the " cash account " 
 at his bankers all but nugatory. Then "came the cry of 
 immorality, so loudly raised by the Actor's old rivals the 
 Religious Tract Society, the Methodists, and other sectarian 
 parties." Yet, in spite of all that could be said or sung in the 
 matter Pierce wrote that " he was too game to be made a 
 dummy of: therefore he was determined to take the leap, and 
 have another " shy-iip^^ and go *' double or quits^'' with that 
 supreme goddess of the gods FAME ! ! ! and try his luck once 
 more in the field of literature and announced the publication 
 of his new work The Finish thus : 
 
The author to the READERS of 
 
 LIFE 
 
 IN AND OUT OF LONDON. 
 
 After the lapse of Seven Years the Author has once more seized hold of 
 \ht feather, and the Artist hh pencil, with an earnest endeavour to follow the 
 advice of our immortal bard, or rather adopt him as a model, "nothing to 
 extenuate, or set down aught in malice I " and : 
 
 To hold as 'twere 
 The Mirror up to Nature ; to show Virtue her own feature, 
 Vice her own image, and the very age 
 And body of the Time, its form and pressure. 
 
 Then thus it is the ''glorious uncertainty" of pleasing every class of 
 society respecting a knowledge of Life in London being essentia! towards 
 the improvement of the junior branches of mankind ; and although contrary 
 to the established and sapient rules of the College of Physicians, and the 
 practice pursued by our learned friends in Westminster Hall, we are, never- 
 theless, anxious to give advice without a fee, in order to prove that, in all 
 cases, whether connected with youth or more mature age. Prevention is 
 much better than Cure ; indeed, so anxious are we to set ourselves right 
 with the public, as to our future intentions respecting this work, and that we 
 may see our way clearly, and tread on the firmest ground, we feel inclined to 
 adopt the latin proverb so often quoted by Bob Logic to the unsuspecting 
 Jerry, on his first arrival in the metropolis : 
 
 Inciditin Scyllam qui vult vitare Chary bditn. 
 
 The necessity is absolute ; or, rather, an apology is required for the intro- 
 duction of the Author and Artist to the notice of reader, previous to the 
 second appearance of those heroes Corinthian Tom, Logic and Jerry. 
 on the great theatre of the world ! pour quoi? to vindicate the characters of 
 the Author and Artist from unmerited aspersion of having attempted, by 
 the joint efforts of real tales, original anecdotes, and animated sketches, to 
 demoralize the rising generation ; and likewise to refute the charge of having 
 turned the heads of older folks towards the commission of acts of folly and 
 
 intemperance, enough ! To our task " Hark forward's the word, see the 
 
 game is in view ! " and our exertions will be vigorously directed to establish, 
 if possible. " Tdche sans tdche.'''' Our principal aim being to realize, to the 
 utmost extent, the attractive motto : 
 
 Pro Bono Publico ! 
 
 Proceed, my boy, nor heed their further call. 
 Vain his attempts who strives to please you all ! 
 
THE 
 
 FINISH TO THE ADVENTURES 
 
 OF 
 
 TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, 
 
 In their Pursuits through 
 Life In and Out of London, 
 
 BY PIERCE EGAN. 
 
 With numerous Coloured Illustrations by 
 
 Robert Cruikshank. 
 
 ILffntfffit : 
 
 George Virtue and Co., 
 
 Ivy Lane, 
 
 Paternoster Row. 
 
 K 2 
 
32 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 The Fifitsh to Life in London is embellished with thirty six 
 illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, and contains XV. Chapters 
 of letter-press matter. Tom, Jerry and Logic are again brought 
 on the scene, and several additional characters are introduced 
 into the work, notably 6 John Blubber, Knt, a second Falstaff, 
 without stuffing, a most facetious, jolly, good-natured soul, one 
 of that class of persons deemed independent, and his property 
 enabled him to "care for nobody." The adventures of the 
 personnse in their pursuits of Life in and Out of London are 
 fully described, and the " Finish ! " of Logic, the Oxonian, 
 and Corinthian Tom narrated as follow. 
 
 CHAPTER XIV. 
 
 Jerry determined to give np all thoughts of Life in London ; to 
 retire from the Day atid Night Scenes altogether. Moralises 
 on his late inmiinent danger^ and abnost miraculous escape 
 from death. Logic rapidly declines i?i health. The Oxonian 
 makes his Will. His advice to Jerry before his exit. 
 Epitaph on Logic, written by the Corinthian. 
 
 *' I hope Logic will be able to accompany us in our visit to 
 Lord Liberal's Gallery," said Tom, when he was interrupted by 
 the footman putting the following letter into his hand " Aye," 
 observed Tom to Jerry, " here is a note from Bob ; let us hear 
 what he has to offer upon the subject : " 
 
 My dear Tom, 
 
 I regret very much that my health will not permit me 
 to accompany you and the " Young One " to view my Lord 
 I^iberal's fine gallery of paintings ; a pleasure which I had 
 
TOM AND JERRY. I33 
 
 sincerely anticipated, as it is well known that his Lordship's 
 taste respecting the fine arts, is considerably above par. But 
 ''' necessitas non habet legem P^ To tell you the truth, I am 
 seriously ill, although not alarmed ; yet, I must confess, that I 
 never felt so strangely in the whole course of my life. I think 
 the volume is nearly sptai out ; and that the Book will soon be 
 closed for ever ! But Dr. Finish'em will not have it so, nay, 
 he insists on the contrary, " Lots of pages,'' says he, " yet 
 remain to be read/' and several Chapters must be perused, 
 before you arrive at that emphatical word FINIS ! Be that 
 as it may ; you are aware that doctors differ, and I do not like 
 appearances ; yet, as we say at Oxford, forti et fideli nil difficile ! 
 Nevertheless, I am anxious to see you, my dear friend, as soon 
 as convenient ; and I wish Jerry to be your companion, as I 
 have something to communicate to both of you, rather of a 
 serious nature, concerning myself ; yet, I am far from labouring 
 under un eaur contrit. Therefore tell the " Young One," I 
 hope his person is now quite cool that his flame is also cool ; 
 and instead of lamenting over the &c., &c. I am happy to 
 hear he is Mens sana in ccrpore sano : 
 
 I remain, my dear Tom, 
 
 Yours, truly, 
 
 Corinthian Tom, Esq. Robert Logic. 
 
 "There's something behind this letter that I do not like," 
 said Tom ; " Bob is very ill, you may rely upon it, or else he 
 would not be so pressing for us to visit him." " Yes, I am 
 afraid it is too true," replied Jerry ; but let us hope he is not 
 so bad, neither, as you perceive, he is Joking about my late 
 affair." " Joke with you ! " echoed Tom, " I expect Logic will 
 die with 2ijoke in his mouth, he is so fond oi punning? But we 
 will lose no time, as I am anxious to ascertain the true cause of 
 his illness." 
 
 Upon the arrival of our heroes at the apartments of Logic, 
 they found him sitting at a table, in his arm chair, with pens 
 
134 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 and ink before him : his countenance most woefully changed for 
 the worse. Indeed, Tom and Jerry were quite shocked with 
 his altered appearance in so short a time. He endeavoured to 
 smile upon them, as usual ; but it savoured more of the 
 ^^ ghastly r^ than that sort of enlivening humour which so 
 generally imparted animation to his cheerful face. " I am 
 very glad to see you, my boys," said he, ** before I start on 
 my long journey, which I have been preparing for these last 
 five or six days." " I was not aware you had any such inten- 
 tion," answered Tom ; " but may I ask, where are you going ? " 
 
 " To that bourne from whence no traveller returns ! " 
 
 replied Logic, accompanied by a most penetrating look at the 
 Corinthian. * Dr. Finish'em has given me my quietus, like 
 an honest fellow. On feeling my pulse, he observed " Your 
 hour-glass \s dXvciOstxMXi o\x\.\ Tevipus fugit I Therefore, what 
 you have to do, let it be done quickly, or else it will not be 
 done at all ! Old Bolus, too, was rather funny with me on the 
 occasion ; " I know," said he, " your Will was always good to 
 serve everybody ; therefore, Mr. Logic, have a good WILL 
 now towards your friends." I took Pill and Potions advice, 
 and the few hours allotted to me I have made the best use of 
 that I possibly could; and here is my WILL for your approba- 
 tion." The tear started down Tom's cheek, and Jerry was 
 much affected by the unexpected circumstance. " I sincerely 
 hope it is not so bad as you apprehend," said Tom. " Yes, my 
 dear friends," replied Logic, " it is all over with me. I have 
 suffered severely from an inflammation in my bowels ; but the 
 pain has subsided, and that is the sign of approaching death. 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 35 
 
 You will perceive, on looking over my TESTAMENT,"* that I 
 have not adhered to any of the technical terms of lawyers, 
 being well aware that the distribution of my property will never 
 puzzle the pericranium of the Lord Chajicellor, or occasion a 
 row among the learjted brethren, to obtain a brief upon the 
 subject ; and if I have not made myself perfectly intelligible, I 
 hope you will now point out any errors that may appear to you, 
 in order to avoid disputes hereafter. It is true, I have no blunt 
 to leave you, my boys, but several notes^ which I hope, will 
 always bear an interest, and prove as valuable to you in the 
 hour of need as cash ! You will, my dear Tom, as my last 
 request, read it aloud, for the approbation of my friend Jerry." 
 
 THE 
 
 LAST WORDS AND TESTAMENT OF ROBERT LOGIC. 
 
 Being wide awake vi\y upper story in perfect repair and 
 down to what I am about I have seized hold of the feather^ 
 with a firm hand, to render myself intelligible, and also to com- 
 municate the objects I have in view; I give and bequeath unto 
 my friend, Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., my tile^ my castor, my 
 topper, my upper-crust, my pimple coverer, otherwise my HAT, 
 which, I hope, will never be the means of changing the appear- 
 ance of " an old friend with a new face." To my out and out 
 friend and companion, Corinthian Tom, I give my spread, 
 my summer-cabbage, my water-plant, but more generally under- 
 stood as my Umbrella ; who, I feel assured will never let it 
 
 * Testament, is perfectly correct. The words will and testament are 
 generally used indiscriminately ; but they are not words exactly of the same 
 import. A luill, is properly limited to land ; a testament, to personal estate, 
 as money, furniture, &c., &c. 
 
136 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 be made use of as a shelter for duplicity, ingratitude, or hum- 
 buggery of any sort ! Also, to Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., I resign 
 my fam-snatchers, i.e., my Gloves, under the consideration, if 
 ever he should part with them, that they are only to be worn by 
 those persons, who have " a hand to give, and a heart that 
 forgives !" Likewise to Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., I bequeath 
 my four-eyes, my barnacles, my green-specs, but amongst, opticians, 
 denominated Spectacles. It is my sincere wish, that nothing 
 green will be ever seen appertaining to them, except their colour ; 
 I also hope they will not, upon any occasion whatever magnify 
 Trifles into difficulties : but enable the wearer to see his way 
 through Life as clear as crystal! I press upon J erry 
 Hawthorn, Esq., his acceptance of my fogle, my ivipe, my 
 clout, my sneezer, politely termed a Silk Handkerchief. This 
 article has often been used to wipe off a tear of pity, and 
 always forthcoming at a tale of distress; may it ever be at hand 
 on such Christian-like occasions ! To Philip Timothy 
 Splinter, Esq., I bequeath my upper tog, my Benfaman, my 
 wrapper, generally called a Top Coat, with the advice, that 
 however it may be mended and mended again, he will never let 
 it be turned against unavoidable misfortune, and charity. My 
 ticker, my latter, my thimble, otherwise my Watch, I bequeath 
 to Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., as an emblematical gift to keep 
 Time upon all occasions to remember its inestimable value, 
 and also to recollect that he will, some day or another, be 
 wound-up for the last time. My two Seals I give conjointly to 
 my mobt valued and dear friends, Corinthian Tom and Jerry 
 Hawthokn, Esqrs., in order, if possible, that the bonds of 
 friendship may be more firmly sealed between them, to the end 
 of their lives. To Miss Mary Rosebud, I give and bequeath 
 
TOM AND JERRY. l$^ 
 
 my Diamond Ring, as a representative of her excellent brilliant 
 qualities, and also as a golden fence, to secure her virtue, repu- 
 tation, and dignity. To my worthy friend, Sir John Blubber, 
 Knt 1 give and bequeath my J>adders, my stampers^ my btickets, 
 otherwise my Boots, whose knowledge of mankind, united with 
 kindness towards the failings of others, teaches him to tread 
 lightly o'er the ashes of the dead ! To prevent mistakes re- 
 specting my Bit, I have not a bit to leave ; it having been with 
 me, for some time past Pockets to Let, unfurnished ; Sic 
 transit gloria mundi ! But nevertheless, I trust I have always 
 proved amicus hiimani generis ! My Books having been long 
 booked for their value, and afforded me consolation and support 
 in the hour of need I, therefore, leave as I found it, for other 
 folks to bustle in, that Great Volume the World! which 
 upon all occasions, was my sheet anchor ! assisted by the follow- 
 ing good old maxims, as my guide : 
 
 Tempiis edax rerum. Time that devours all things. 
 
 Vincit Veritas. Truth conquors. 
 
 Principiis obsta. Resist the first beginnings. 
 
 Vitiis 7iemo sine nascitur. No man without his faults. 
 
 Spes mea in Deo. My hope is in God. 
 
 Spero meliora. I hope for better things. 
 
 Robert Logic. 
 
 Tom and Jerry were both considerably affected at the kind- 
 ness displayed towards them by the Oxonian ; and had it been 
 at any other time, the singularity of the above Testament would 
 have produced much laughter between them ; at all events, it 
 convinced them that Logic still preserved his character for 
 ORIGINALITY. Three proper witnesses, disinterested persons, 
 
138 
 
 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 belonging to the house, were instantly called in to sign it, when 
 the Testament, in the eye of the law, became a valid document. 
 " My dear Jerry," said Logic, as we must soon part. I had 
 intended to offer a few remarks for your consideration ; but, 
 finding that my strength will not second my intentions, I shall 
 be very concise on the matter : you must perceive that the 
 comical part of my career is at an end, and you are well aware 
 that I always was a merry fellow ; but, as Mercutio says, I shall 
 be found a grave man to-morrow. Endeavour, then, " To do 
 unto all men, as you would they should do unto you," and you 
 will not be a great way off the right path to happiness. I feel 
 myself very faint ; my breath getting short ; and having settled 
 everything to my satisfaction, have the kindness to assist me 
 into bed, that I may die like a Christian contented, and in 
 peace with all mankind ! Tom, give me your hand ; Jerry, 
 yours likewise I grasp them both with sincerity ! " Then 
 looking them full in the face ; with a placid smile on his coun- 
 tenance, his last words were " God bless you ! " His lip fell ; 
 his eyes lost their brilliancy; and the once- merry, lively, face- 
 tious, friendly Logic, was now numbered with the dead ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 39 
 
 For several days, our heroes were absorbed in grief, at the 
 sudden loss of their much-admired and valued friend; and 
 Corinthian House, for a long time after the decease of the 
 Oxonian^ was dull in the extreme. The funeral of Logic, 
 under the direction of Tom, was of the most splendid descrip 
 tion ; and a handsome monument was also erected by his order, 
 bearing the following inscription : 
 
 %\\% %Mz\ 
 
 Was erected in remembrance of 
 
 ROBERT LOGIC, Esq., 
 
 Who was viewed throughout the circle of his acquaintances as 
 
 A MAN, 
 
 In every sense of the word, 
 
 Valuable as Gold ! 
 
 Mirth and Good Humour were always at his elbows ; but 
 
 DULL CARE 
 
 Was never allowed a seat in his presence. 
 
 He played \k\^ first fiddle in all companies, and was never out 
 
 of tune : 
 
 Bob was a wit of the first quality ; 
 
 But his Satire was general, and levelled against the follies 
 
 of mankind : 
 
 Personality and Scandal he disclaimed : 
 
 His exertions were always directed to make others happy. 
 
 As a Choice Spirit, he was unequalled ; 
 
 And as a Sincere Friend, never excelled; but in his character of a 
 
 MAN OF THE WORLD, 
 
 Bob Logic was a Mirror to all his Companions. 
 
140 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 Mankind had been his study ; and he had perused the Great 
 
 Soofe of Sift 
 
 With superior advantages; and his Commentaries on 
 
 Men and Manners 
 
 Displayed not only an enlarged mind ; but his Opinions were 
 
 gentlemanly and liberal. 
 
 His intimate knowledge of Vice had preserved him from 
 
 being Vicious. 
 
 By which source he was able to discriminate with effect ; and 
 
 Virtue appeared more beautiful in his eyes. 
 
 Truth was his polar star ; and Integrity his sheet anchor. 
 
 Adversity could not reduce his noble mind, 
 
 And Prosperity was not suffered to play tricks with his feelings ; 
 
 HE WAS A MAN UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES ! 
 
 Flattery he despised ; while Candour obtained his respect ; 
 
 and the corner stone of his character was Sincerity. 
 
 He w^s charitable, but not ostentatious, and a well-wisher to 
 
 all the world. 
 
 His Friends, 
 
 TOM AND JERRY, 
 
 Lamenting his severe loss in society, trust, that upon the 
 
 AWFUL, DAY OF RECKONING, 
 
 The Great Auditor of Accounts will find his Balance Sheet 
 correct, {errors excepted) : 
 
 And as the whole tenour of Bob Logic's life had been A Volume 
 
 OF Pleasure they sincerely hope it will be 
 
 Well Bound at the last ! 
 
TOM AND JERRY 14I 
 
 CHAPTER XV. 
 
 *' There is no place like Home I " Jerry bids adieu to Life in 
 London, and sets out, with the Corinthian, for Haw- 
 thorn Hall. Rosebud Cottage in sights the Church in 
 perspective, and a good look-out towards the High Road to 
 Matrimony. Uncertainty of existence: sorroiu succeeding 
 sorrow : Tom killed by a fall fruin his horse while hunting. 
 Jerry disconsolate for the loss of his tivo Pals. Reflections 
 on the death of the Corinthian, and a few Lines to his 
 Mejnory. Grieving^ s a folly! Thoughts on Marriage: 
 popping the Question the bit of Gold the reluctant NO 
 YYu^\0\.Xi^OiAuXV,o\ an important feature. The Wedding 
 Day all happiness at Hawthorn Hall Jerry and 
 Mary Rosebud united. The tie-up of the Story ^ i.e.^ to 
 promote Life in the Country. 
 
 ~ The sudden death of Logic made quite a chasm in the 
 movements of Tom and Jerry ; indeed he had been the prin- 
 cipal caterer for their amusements, and our heroes were not 
 only in grief for his loss, but reduced completely to a stand-still 
 without him. It is true ; Jerry had previously made up his 
 mind to quit London, but the sudden demise of the Oxonian 
 positively hurried him out of town. The Metropolis had lost 
 its attractions upon the feelings of Jerry, and he flattered him- 
 self that the neighbourhood of Hawthorn Hall, the sports of 
 the field, and the fascinating company of Miss Rosebud, would, 
 in a great measure, afford relief to his mind, and ultimately 
 
142 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 restore him to cheerfulness. The parents of Jerry were over- 
 joyed in beholding their darling son once more safe under their 
 roof, and the Corinthian also received the most friendly con- 
 gratulations on his arrival at Hawthorn Hall. The sombre 
 appearance of our heroes, who were in deep mourning for the 
 Oxonian^ operated as a great drawback to the festivities which 
 under different circumstances, had been intended to celebrate 
 their reception ; indeed, at every step they took, the loss of 
 Logic was sincerely regretted by all those persons who had 
 ranked him as one of their best acquaintances, during his last 
 appearance at Hawthorn Hall. " To me, the loss of Logic 
 is incalculable," said Jerry, to his father ; " he was not only able 
 to advise, but his manner of doing it was so persuasive, that it 
 was impossible not to benefit by his experience ; more especi- 
 ally at my time of life, when such experience was by far more 
 valuable to my mind, than any knowledge I might have obtained 
 of men and manners, through my own exertions!" 
 
 Our hero lost no time in visiting Rosebud Cottage. On his 
 entrance he was welcomed by the father of our heroine with no 
 common sort of ardour ; but, on his being ushered into the 
 presence of Mary Rosebud, he felt confused, nay, ashamed ; 
 her looks, although accompanied with a smile, nevertheless told 
 him that he had been neglectful towards her, during his re- 
 sidence in London, and she gently chided him for his want of 
 attention. ** I am afraid, Sir," said she, ** it has been with you 
 like most professed lovers, ' out of sight, out of mind.' " Jerry 
 could not reply \ his excuses were lame and impotent ; indeed, 
 he was aware that he was in fault, and, therefore, sensibly threw 
 himself upon the mercy of the Court, and sued in the most per- 
 suasive manner for pardon. The good nature of Mary, aided 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 43 
 
 by a little of something else perhaps, love could not resist 
 the application ; and she generously admitted that some allow- 
 ance might be made for him, when surrounded by the attractions 
 of London. " Generous girl !" exclaimed Jerry, " the remain- 
 der of my life shall be devoted to your happiness." 
 
 Jerry being now perfectly established in the good opinion of 
 Miss Rosebud, became doubly attentive in his visits ; when the 
 minutes, the hours, the days, nay, the weeks almost appeared 
 to fly, so fascinated was Jerry with the company and attractions 
 of our charming heroine. In truth, the time of Jerry was 
 completely occupied with hunting, dinners, card-parties, assem- 
 blies, &c., accompanied by Tom ; and his life appeared so happy, 
 that he congratulated himself on his return to the seat of his 
 father, also upon the hair-breadth escapes he had met with, 
 during his Day and Night Scenes in London. 
 
 During a walk one fine evening, and Hawthorn Church ap- 
 pearing in view, Jerry was determined to make the best use of 
 the opportunity which offered itself, by soliciting Mary Rose 
 BUD to name the day that was to complete his happiness. '' I 
 have always promised my father," replied Mary, with the utmost 
 frankness, " that he should name the wedding-day ; therefore, 
 gain his consent, and you will have no complaint to make against 
 my decision." " I will be your father upon that joyful occasion," 
 said the Corinthian. " if you will permit me, my dear Miss 
 Rosebud, as I am very anxious to bestow on my friend Jerry 
 one of the greatest treasures in this life, a most amiable com- 
 panion and virtuous wife." Miss Rosebud blushed at the 
 remark, but nevertheless felt pleased with the compliment paid 
 
144 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 by the Corinthian ; and the subject was dropped until they 
 arrived at Rosebud Cottage. The father of our heroine, on 
 being made acquainted with the wishes of the young folks, ob- 
 served, " I am quite content ; and I sincerely hope they will 
 prove one of the happiest couples alive. Therefore, let the 
 settlements be drawn immediately, the licence procured without 
 delay, the dresses made offhand, our friends invited in good 
 time, and Old Jollyboy requested to hold himself in readiness. 
 Now, having settled this marriage business to my mind, let us 
 have a jolly evening together, before we part; and to-morrow, 
 Jerry,- what do you say to a day's hunting? And your cousin, 
 Tom, I have no doubt, will make one of the party." " It will 
 afford me great pleasure," replied the Corinthian ; " and we 
 will be in time to start with you." The evening was spent in 
 great jollity. "The single married, and the married happy," 
 were toasted over and over again by the party, until Jkrry be- 
 came as lively as a lark. Old Rosebud roaring out the view 
 halloo ! The Corinthian quite merry and facetious, and Old 
 Jollyboy rather above par, hiccoughing, every now and then, 
 with an attempt to pun, that he was " fond of (a) good 
 living P 
 
 Our heroes were ready at the appointed time to take the field 
 with Old Rosebud; the latter fox-hunter was in high glee 
 with the excellence of the day's sport, Jerry equally delighted, 
 and Tom had just declared he had not been so pleased for a 
 long time ; but, unfortunately for him, in his bold endeavour to 
 clear some high palings, his horse fell with him, and he was 
 thrown some distance. On being raised from the ground, it 
 was discovered that his neck was dislocated, and he expired 
 instantly. Upon Jerry's ascertaining the fate of the 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 45 
 
 Corinthian, his feelings were so completely overcome, that 
 he fell down in a fit quite senseless. 
 
 To describe the wretched state of mind which Jerry suffered 
 for several days, at the unexpected accident and melancholy 
 death of his dearest friend in the world would have baffled the 
 poet's skill and the painter's talents to pourtray the shock was 
 so sudden, and the loss to our hero so great, that it was impos- 
 sible to have been otherwise ; just at the moment when happi- 
 ness appeared to be within his grasp, and he was also slowly 
 recovering from the serious effects which the death of Logic 
 had also made upon his feelings, to have met with such an 
 immense blow the death of Corinthian Tom shattered his 
 nerves all to pieces, and anything in the shape of consolation 
 appeared to him officious, troublesome, and unavailing ! Ulti- 
 mately, by the soothing attention of Miss Rosebud, the friendly 
 interference of the old fox hunter, her father, the unremitting 
 kindness of his parents, and the cheering, good advice of Old 
 JoLLYBOY, by degrees he was restored to a state of convalescence. 
 
 From " Gay to grave,'^ was now the reversed scene for the 
 contemplation of our hero, and the old proverb verified to an 
 awful extent, " that many things happen between the cup and 
 the lip ;" the marriage rites were now suspended to make way 
 for the performance of the burial service. The remains of the 
 Corinthian were conveyed to town with the utmost solemnity, 
 and interred in the family vault, with all those obsequies due to 
 his rank; and although Jerry remained extremely ill, and 
 scarcely able to stand upon his legs, yet he was determined, at 
 all hazards, to pay the last respect to his most valued friend and 
 relative, Corinthian Tom, by his appearance at the funeral in 
 the 'character of chief Inourneh ' Jrrv did nbt quit the Metro- 
 
 L 
 
146 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 polis until he had settled every thing to his satisfaction respecting 
 the interment of the Corinthian. Upon the return of Jerry 
 to Hawthorn Hall, several days elapsed before anything like 
 pleasure occupied his mind ; he positively refused to quit the 
 house, and he also shunned the society of his acquaintances. 
 *' It requires no common fortitude," observed Jerry, to Old 
 JOLLYBOY, " to bear up against the loss of two such invaluable 
 friends as Tom and Logic, snatched, as it were, in an instant 
 from me, when I stood most in need of their assistance, and to 
 whom I am principally indebted for the knowledge of mankind 
 which I now possess. In Logic, I have lost a model of ex- 
 perience, a fund of talent, and a heart overflowing with the 
 milk of human kindness. By the death of Tom, I shall heavily 
 miss that urbanity, discernment and liberality, which highly 
 distinguishes the polished, and thorough-bred gentleman. I am 
 now left to decide for myself; but, nevertheless, I hope I shall 
 sincerely profit by their example. Appearances, I am per- 
 fectly aware might be against both of their characters with the 
 fastidious part of society, yet hypocrisy, cant, humbug, or dis- 
 simulation, never disgraced their conduct : a love of honour 
 shone conspicuously throughout their actions, and, by an 
 acknowledgment of their own errors, displayed a noble gene- 
 rosity towards the faults of others. They taught me not to 
 spend time in regretting any mistakes that I had made, but to 
 exert myself upon every occasion to repair them. This maxim 
 shall be my guide through life I will not repine, but struggle 
 with fortitude against unavoidable calamities, and endeavour 
 to make myself happy under all circumstances of my 
 existences." 
 Jerry immediately gave orders for a very handsome stone to 
 
TOM AND JERRY. 1 47 
 
 be placed in the most conspicuous situation near to the spot 
 where Corinthian Tom lost his life, with the following inscrip- 
 tion engraved upon it : 
 
 Near to this Spot of Earth, 
 Lost his Life by a Fall from his Horse while Hunting, 
 
 CORINTHIAN TOM, 
 
 One of the highest-bred creatures in the Universe, and who got 
 
 over the ground like nothing else but 
 
 A GOOD ONE : 
 
 In the walks of fashion, he was a Corinthian ; 
 
 Amongst the Bloods, a bon vivant ; 
 
 On theTuRF a real Sportsman; in the Chase, an Out and-OuTER; 
 
 And in his deportment to every person 
 
 A PERFECT GENTLEMAN! 
 
 If he could not put in a positive claim to the title of 
 
 The Rose and Pillar of the State. 
 
 No man in the world ever possessed the Suaviter in Modo 
 
 and FoRTiTER, in re 
 
 In a more eminent degree than 
 
 This Remembrance has been erected by his Relative and 
 
 sincere Friend 
 
 JERRY HAWTHORN, Esq., 
 
 Under the hope, that when he hears the Last View Halloo ! 
 
 His Pedigree may be found sound ; his Race complete, by 
 
 Winning the Happy Stakes ; and nothing against him 
 
 Noted down in the 
 
 L 2 
 
148 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 " I admit your loss has been great, and I also admire the 
 tenour of your argument," observed Mr. Rosbeud, "but, 
 nevertheless, * grieving's a folly ;'' there is a time for every thing, 
 as my friend Old Jollyboy would have observed, therefore, 
 Jerry, having done every thing becoming the character of a 
 sincere friend, I think you ought now to turn to a more pleasant 
 view of the picture, and once more give your acquaintances the 
 benefit of your company." " Good !" exclaimed Old Jollyboy ; 
 " for some time past, I have been holding myself in readiness to 
 receive a summons to perform a certain ceremony, without 
 Squire Hawthorn has given up the marriage altogether. All 
 in good time perhaps !" 
 
 The trifling hint was quite sufficient, and Jerry, lest his 
 conduct should be thought cold or neglectful, presented himself, 
 in the course of the morning, " for better or for worse," to 
 Miss Rosebud, at the Cottage, anxiously soliciting her to name 
 the wedding day. The disposition of Mary Rosebud was of 
 the most ingenious nature, and her attachment to our hero too 
 great to keep him long in suspense. " Perhaps, Sir," said Mary, 
 " I ought to say ' No ! ' and insist upon more time, to enable 
 me to form a correct opinion of your conduct, whether you have 
 duly considered the serious and important charge of martrimony. 
 and the confinement also attendant on such a state ; and, like- 
 wise, freely consenting, as it is termed, to surrender a part of 
 your liberty, before I say ' Yes.' But I prefer being frank on 
 the present occasion ; and, relying on your honour, generosity, 
 and true love, I am content, whenever my father shall think 
 proper to name the day." " Generous, amiable girl," replied 
 Jerry, "I have well considered the subject, in every point of 
 view ; but I will make no professions : yet my endeavours 
 
TOM AND JERRY. T49 
 
 throughout my life, shall be to strengthen^ what the Poet has so 
 beautifully described, the 
 
 " Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets." 
 
 The day was immediately fixed for the nuptials by Mr. 
 Rosebud ; the marriage ceremony was performed by Old 
 JoLLYBOY, and when Miss Rosebud answered "I will !" the old 
 Curate was so full ol joy, that the word " Good !" had almost 
 escaped his lips, The estates of the Rosebuds and the 
 Hawthorns were united, and Mary and Jerry made the 
 happiest of the happy. The wedding-day was devoted to plea- 
 sure. " It shall be kept in the old style," said Jerry's father ; 
 " every body, shall be welcome ; we will have a dance upon the 
 green ; all the lads and lasses in the village shall be invited to 
 celebrate the wedding; we will broach a tub of ''humming bub ! ! ' 
 and nothing shall be wanting to promote mirth and harmony." 
 " Good !" said Old Jollyboy, over his pipe ; but, long before 
 the approach of night, the " gaily circulating glass " had been 
 pushed about by Old Hawthorn to all the company that, 
 suffice to observe ; as we have too much respect for the cloth to 
 tell tales, the fine old Curate required the assistance of "Amen," 
 the clerk, to make Jollyboy *' all right " at the Curacy. 
 
 The honey-moon was, of course, a raptuous one ; after which 
 Jerry might be viewed as a ''^ settled being.^^ Time rolled over 
 pleasantly with him and his bride ; and the sports of the field, 
 if possible, he enjoyed with greater zest than heretofore. His 
 fireside was a pattern of domestic comfort, although a sigh 
 would now and then escape his lips, whenever the thoughts ot 
 Tom and Logic came over his mind. In every other respect, 
 Jerry was a picture of contentment ; determined to profit by 
 
150 THE HISTORY OF 
 
 his experience, and to turn to a good account, for the benefit of 
 himself and his family, the many hair-breadth escapes and 
 dangerous adventures he had met with in his Day and Night 
 Scenes in Life in London. He was the delight of all the 
 companies he visited in the neighbourhood of Hawthorn 
 Hall ; his general conduct was the praise of the surrounding 
 gentry, and he was admitted, by all parties, to sustain the 
 character of a perfect Country Gentleman. We now take 
 our leave of Jerry, " all happiness," with his amiable wife, a 
 fine estate, a capital stud of horses, and a crack pack of hounds, 
 to promote 
 
 LIFE IN THE COUNTRY. 
 
 The End. 
 
KEY 
 
 TO 
 
 PERSONS AND PLACES 
 
 AND AN 
 
 Etymological and Critical 
 
 VOCABULARY AND GLOSSARY 
 
 Of Flash and Slang Terms occurring 
 in the course of this work. 
 
KEY 
 
 TO 
 
 PERSONS AND PLACES, 
 
 &c. 
 
 kwwvW'J.I-'" 
 
 A. B.C. Any easy matter, the A. B.C. of the affair, i.e., the whole of the 
 particulars can be comprehended as soon, or as easy as you can say A.B.C.: 
 
 Then comes answer like A.B.C. book. Shakespeare, 
 
 'Above Board. In open sight, all fair and square, dealing without 
 artifice or trick. 
 
 Above Par Tolerably drunk also to be possessed of money beyond 
 one's actual expenses plenty of the needful lots of hlunt ! able to post- 
 ibe'pofiy lay down the raff ! chink the ochre ! &c., in case of laying a wager 
 or making an investment. 
 
 Ace of Spades. A widow. , 
 
 Adelphi. Greek for brothers : several streets on the south side of the 
 Strand, London, erected about 1768 by the brothers, John, Robert, James, 
 and "William Adam, after whom the streets are named. 
 
 Adelphi Theatre. Formerly called the Sans Fareil, opened under the 
 management of Mr. and Miss Scott, 2? Nov., 1806. Messrs. Rodwell 
 and Jones purchased the property and opened on Monday, Oct. 18, 1819, 
 and issued the first playbill bearing the name of "Adelphi Theatre." 
 Messrs. Mathews and Yates became managers, Sept. 29, 1828 Mr. Charles 
 Mathews Mathews at Some died the 28th of June, 1836. The theatre 
 was then let for the remainder of the season to Messrs. Ephraim Bond and 
 
154 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Company, and announced to be " under the management of Mrs. Nisbett." 
 After that Mr. Yates had the sole managemerit. In 1840 Messrs. Yates and 
 Gladstone were the proprietors. Mr. Benjamin Webster became lessee, and 
 Madame Celeste directress, 1844. The theatre was re-built and opened, with 
 improved arrangements 27 Dec, 1858, as The New Adelphi. Jn 1870 it was 
 annoanced that while Mr. Ben. Webster was sole proprietor, Mr. Webster and 
 Mr. F. B. Chattertou were joint managers. After several changes Messrs. 
 A. and S. Gatti became sole proprietors and managers. 
 
 Air and Exercise. Or, Shoving the tumbler. Being whipped at the 
 cart's tail. 
 
 Alderman. A turkey, Alderman in chains, a roast turkey well-stuffed 
 and garnished with pork sausages ; the latter emblematical of the gold chain 
 worn by that civic dignitary. 
 
 Ale Draper. The alehouse-keeper ; a rum cully o. squirt quester. Ale 
 spinner y a brewer or publican. 
 
 Alive. Active, smart, to be ever on the alert. Alive to the subject; the 
 game, the fact, or to any circumstance. Tom's alive to his own interest, let 
 him alone for that ; he's wide-a-wake ! 
 
 All Hands to the Pump. All force concentrated to one spot. 
 
 All- Max in the East. Open to all influenced by none was held at 
 the Coach and Horses public-house. Nightingale -lane. East Smithfield, and 
 was frequented by most of the Wapping elegantes. Blue Ruin and reels 
 were generally the order rather the disorder of the evening. 
 
 All Out. The whole of the reckoning. " flow stands the great account 
 t'wixt me and vengeance ! " 
 
 Almack's. Aristocratic exclusiveness. A ball given by the highest 
 nobility . Almack's means properly a suite of assembly rooms in King Street, 
 St. James's, London, built in 1765 by a Scotchman named Macall, who 
 inverted his name to obviate all prejudice and hide his origin. Balls, pre- 
 sided over by a committee of ladies of the highest rank, used to be given in 
 these rooms ; and to be admitted to them was as great a distinction as to be 
 introduced at Court. The rooms are now called Willis's from the present 
 proprietor. 
 
 If once to Almack's you belong, 
 Like Monarch's, you can do no wrong ; 
 But banished thence on Wednesday night, 
 By Jove, you can do nothing right 
 
 Alone. A knowing one maybe trusted ^'' Alone'''' by reason of his ex- 
 perience in worldly matters. 
 
 Angelics. Young ladies. N.B. Unmarried I 
 
 Annointed. Knowing, ripe for mischief, full of courage and energy for 
 any desperate exploit. 
 
 Apartments to Let. It is said that the " widow's cap," denotes that 
 there are Aparttnents to Let ! Also of an empty-headed or shallow-cove. 
 
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AND GLOSSARY. 155 
 
 Argument. The best of the. Any man with a pair of leather lungs has 
 the best of an argument at a tavern, unless there be an other present who can 
 lay heavy sums which are quite uncoverable that his opinion or assertion is 
 correct. A stable-keeper being beaten in argument by one of the leather- 
 lunged breed, produced a large roll of bank-notes and a handful of sovereigns, 
 smacking them down on the table exclaiming, " There you ' look at 
 
 that ; if I am a fool my money's none. That beats you ! '' 
 
 Arm Pits. To work under the arm pits, is to practise only such depreda- 
 tions as will amount on conviction to transportation. By following this 
 course and system, a thief avoids the halter^ ox neck-squeezer \ which certainly 
 is applied above the arm pits. 
 
 Arm Props. Crutches Go it ye cripples crutches are cheap, 
 
 Astley's Amphitheatre. Was built and opened by Philip Astley, 1773. 
 
 Astronomer. A star-gazer. A horse that carries his head high-up in 
 the air. 
 
 At Fault. At a loss ; not knowing in what direction to proceed, like dogs 
 who have lost scent of a hare or fox. This sporting phrase is often used, 
 figuratively to signify that a man has been defeated in his pursuits, and does 
 not know how to extricate himself from difficulty. 
 
 At Home. To Provincials^ this phrase may operate rather as a sort of 
 paradox as houses and persons, in general are robbed not " at home " but 
 when the parties are abroad. 
 
 Awake. Knowing ; acquainted with, aware of, or knowing what is going 
 on. Awake to the move, aware of the proceedings ; Stow the books, the culls 
 are awake, Hide the cards, the persons know what we intend to do. This 
 word is used on many occasions, and in most situations of life, being ex- 
 pressive of attention. 
 
 B. 
 
 Babes in the Wood. Persons confined in the stocks or pillory, said 
 also of dice. 
 
 Babes of Grace. Puritanical, sanctified -looking persons ; also drunken 
 
 psalm-smiting cobblers. 
 
 Back-slums. Beggars' meeting places ; Dyot Street, St. Giles' ; Kent 
 Street, in the Borough, &c. The expression applies to all Metropolitan 
 receptacles of mendicants, prostitutes, thieves, and rogues of every degree to 
 get a night's lodging. Back Slummers, dirty, common, low, and vagrant 
 people who reside in the Back-slums. 
 
 Bag the Swag. Pocket, or put into a bag, the plunder, or hide the 
 stolen property. 
 
 Baked. Done up, exhausted, tired out, '* When I got to the top of the hill 
 I was regularly ^aA:e^!'' Soft-baked is also employed to persons who lack 
 worldly wisdom. 
 
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 Baker, Charles. Comedian, died November 26, 1844. 
 
 Bang_up. Quite right, the thing! the go ! done complete, in haadsoiru; 
 style, quite fashionable, at the top of the mode. 
 
 Bank. A snug and secure place to deposit plunder ; Bank the rag, to take 
 care of money. 
 
 Barbers' Clerks. Shopmen, and poor ill-paid and half-starved appren- 
 tices, or conceited ignorant shop- boys. 
 
 Barking Irons. Pistols, from the explosions being supposed to resemble 
 the barking of a dog. 
 
 Baron Nab'em. Otherwise Nicholas Borrowbody. The individual 
 bearing this name who devotes his attentions to Logic, in his moments of retire- 
 ment, is Mr. James Scares, more familiarly termed Jemmy Soares ; well- 
 known in the sporting world, particularly among the friends and supporters 
 of the Hinff, and long the President of the Daffy Club, a society held at 
 Belcher's, the Castle Tavern, Holborn. Events have occurred to prevent his 
 occupying so prominent a place, as formerly, in the list of milling amateurs : 
 but his open heartedness, his native humour, his liberal temper, and convivial 
 disposition , will long be remembered with pleasure, by the numerous pals, 
 who were wont to surround him. 
 
 Barrymore, W. Comedian, died in America, November 24, 1846. 
 
 Baxter's Hats. A celebrated Topper-maker to the Fancy. Formerly in 
 high repute with the amateurs, in respect to giving the knowledge-box an 
 important look ! 
 
 Beaks. Justices, from their former cormorantish qualities " Your 
 vulture hath a devil of a beak ! " But things are different. The Magistrates 
 of the present day, that is the Metropolitan ones, are, with some few excep- 
 tions an honour to the Bench. Beaksmen, constables, or police officers. 
 
 Beat. A watchman's walk, the district in which he is licensed to beat at 
 will all Her Majesty's peaceable and loving subjects. 
 
 Beaver. A hat ; probably from generally possessing very little beaver. 
 My last beaver turned out to be all silk, as Jack Bannister said, *' The loss 
 was felt " : I cleft his leaver with a downright blow. Shakespeare. 
 
 Beeswax. Cheese, generally Gloucester, from the similarity between 
 them "Lets have a twopenny burster, half a quartern o' beesvax, an 
 ha'p'oth o' ingens, and a dollop o' salt along vith it, vill you ?'' Dusty Bob. 
 
 Beggars. Our street beggars have existed from time immemorial ; their 
 profession had become, in some measure, sanctioned by long tolerance. They 
 were a merry, ingenious, persevering, and almost innoxious race. TUey are 
 associated with our earliest recollections ; like Springlove in Brome's health- 
 ful and truly old English opera, " The Jovial Grew ! " we at certain seasons 
 feel almost a yearning to join them. Their wild free life, their careless 
 revelry, present charms to us in retrospection, to which we are not wholly 
 proof ! we think upon the *' Beggar's Bush," of those twin stars Beaumont 
 and Fletcher. Classic recollections bring Belisarius with his ^^ Date 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 157 
 
 Oholum " to our mind. Bamfylde Moore Carew ; Sir Simon Montford, 
 The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green; King Cophueta, who loved the 
 Beggar Maid, the valiant beggar who beat the redoubted Robix Hood to a 
 standstill are among the most favourite heroes of our childhood. The race 
 whose cause we are attempting to advocate, had at least the claim of destitu- 
 tion on our attention ; as Lubin Log has it, our bounty was at all events 
 *' hohtionaiy But what shall, we say of the wealthy and the great, who have 
 become beggars upon the public purse for the purpose of putting these their 
 now persecuted rivals down? They have no claim, no excuse away with 
 them shame on such monopoly ! 
 
 Beggar's Opera. There were two public-houses in Church Lane, St. 
 Giles's ; chiefly supported by beggars, one, called the Beggar's Opera, which 
 was the Rose and Crown, and the other the Robin Hood at both of which 
 Noah Ark Societies that is ^^ Motley -Crew Societies were held. The 
 number that frequented these houses at various times, was computed to be 
 from two to three hundred, and the receipts at a moderate calculation could not 
 be less than from three to five shillings a day each person, frequently more. 
 
 Bellamy, William. Bass Singer, died January 3, 1843, aged 74. 
 
 Belch. All sorts of malt liquor, beer and porter being apt to cause un- 
 comfortable eructations : 
 
 The bitterness of it I now belch forth from my \iezin. Shakespeare. 
 
 Belcher. A large red neckerchief spotted with yellow and black, and 
 first worn by Jem Belcher the famous pugilist, 1781 1811. "The Kiddy 
 flashes his Belcher.^' Tom Belcher's colour was yellow, with white and 
 black spots. 
 
 Bell's Life in London. And Sporting Chronicle, a rich Eepository 
 of Fashion, Wit, and Humour, and the interesting Incidents of Real Life: 
 Was founded March 3, 1822, by Mr. John Bell, one of the most spirited 
 publishers of his time, and the printer and proprietor of "Bell's Edition of 
 Plays," "Bell's Edition of the Poets," " Bell's Weekly Messenger," &c., 
 &c. Mr. Vincent Dowling, was first installed Editor August, 1824. On 
 Sunday, November 4, 1827, it was publicly announced that " Pierce 
 Egan's Life in London and Sporting Guide" is this day incorporated with 
 " Bell's Life in London." All communications for the Editor, therefore, 
 are requested to be transmitted, in future, to the Office, No. 169, Strand . . . 
 Let it not be forgotten, that " Bell's Life in London," is the largest, and 
 best, and the cheapest. Sporting Journal in the Kingdom, " Compare and 
 Judge." I|^* ' The Price is but Sevenppnce." " Mr. Vincent Dowling, the 
 Editor, was well known in the Sporting World and in him the Fancy found a 
 sincere friend, He is a most excellent companion; cheerful, witty, and 
 satirical at all times, but, in the latter dii^play of his talents, the feather 
 appears more than the razor he tickles his adversaries, rather than wounds 
 their feelings " Fierce Egan. A service of plate value 100 gs. was presented 
 to Mr. Vincent Dowling, at the Castle Tarern, Holborn, July 18, 1833. 
 
 Beef. To cry Beef is to give the alarm. " A mot in the regency below, 
 bolted out into the hairy and cried beef on us ; just asve h.a.d sacked the 
 
158 A VOCABULARY 
 
 so Tim Snooks who vos vide awake in the rum pad in front ; giv'd as the 
 o&ce to scarper ! and ve cut like blazes! Squinting Bill piked through the 
 glaze, and vos out of sight in less than no time, and I got over the balcony, 
 and slides down the vater shoot, and makes good my hexit, but leaving all the 
 tools and the swag behind in the old coveys snoozing-ken." 
 
 Beer and Britannia. "What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer 
 and Britannia ? What event more awfully important to an English colony 
 than the erection of its first brewhouse ? : 
 
 Beer ! Boys, Beer ! all over town and country. 
 
 Beer ! Boys, Beer ! with pewter pot in hand ; 
 
 Beer ! Boys, Beer ! for all who don t mind labour. 
 
 Beer ! Boj's, Beer ! who a gallon's going to stand 
 
 Big ones. Men of consequence : such as Tom Cribb, The Duke of 
 Wellington, John Jackson, The Lord Chancellor, John Gully, The 
 Chancellor of the Exchequer, Tom Spring, The Master of the Rolls, &c. 
 
 Big Wigs. Judges, Ac, : " The wisdom's in the wig^ If you doubt 
 it, play the part of Paul Pry for half- an -hour in any of the Courts of Law, 
 or ask the Vice-Chancellor, You'll soon be convinced. 
 
 Bilk the Schoolmaster. Not to stand your regulars, i.e., not to pay 
 for being let into the secret. 
 
 Billing and Cooing. Courting ; the two sexes humbugging one 
 another /A;iwy the sweetner, kissing, &c. : What billing again ?5/i/&^j/^flr^. 
 
 Bill of Sale. A widow's weeds. 
 
 Billy. The cant term for a silk pocket handkerchief. 
 
 Billy Buzman. A class of pickpockets who confine their attention ex- 
 clusively to silk pocket handkerchiefs. In thieving as in other professions 
 and arts of life in this highly civilized age, " Division of Labour," as political 
 economists term it, is particularly attended to in the London School of 
 gonnofs, not only for the sake of convenience, but from the well-known prin- 
 ciple that ^^ Practice makes perfect^ Accordingly, it would be considered as 
 untradesman-like for a Billy Buzman to go out of his own line of business, as for 
 an ironmonger to sell treacle, or a silk mercer to deal in or sell neat's foot oil. 
 
 Bird-cage. Small country watch-houses, or gaols. Come, let's away to 
 prison ; we two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : Shakespeare. 
 
 Birds of Prey. Lawyers. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. 
 Jack Cade. 
 
 Bit. Taken in, one half the world bite the other. Also money of any 
 kind or quantity. Queer-bit, bad money. Rum-bit, good money. " He 
 grabbed the CuU's-bit." He seized the man's money. 
 
 Bit of Cavalry. A horse An two men ride a horse, one must ride behind. 
 
 Bit of good Truth. The plain facts. Facts are stubborn things. 
 Bit of Muslin. A sweetheart. Love me little, love me long. 
 Biting one's name in it. Taking a good draught out of a pot of 
 heavy wet. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 159 
 
 Black Beetles. The Lower orders the rabble {Canaille). 
 
 Black Diamonds. Coals. Black diamonds Lords, owners of coal mines. 
 Black diamond merchant, a coal merchant. Black diamond polisher, a coalheaver. 
 
 Black Miller. The The brave and somewhat ill used Molineux. The 
 Black pugilist who was twice beaten by Tom Cribb, 1810 11. 
 
 Black Sharks. Attorneys and Lawyers. Arcades ambo ! 
 
 Black Strap. Port wine. ** What will you lay it is a lie ! " 
 
 Blade. A man ; who may be a brother blade as a butcher, a knowing blade, 
 if a sharp fellow, wide awake and cunning. 
 
 Blinker. A one-eyed horse. 
 
 Bloods, Bucks, and Choice Spirits. Tria juncta in uno A riotous 
 disorderly set of young men who imagine that their noise, bluster, warwhoop, 
 and impertinence impress those who come in contact with them with the 
 opinion that they are men of spirit and fashion. The nocturnal exploits of 
 the true high-mettled, and fast-going Blood: consists of throwing a waiter 
 out of a tavern window lumpus ! pinking a sedan-chairman, or a jarvey, who 
 is so uncivil as to demand his fare, milling and boxing-up the charlies, kick- 
 ing-up rows at Ranelagh and Vauxhall, driving stage coaches, getting up 
 prize fights, breaking shop windows with penny pieces thrown from a Hackney 
 coach, bilking a turnpike-man, and at other times painting-out in a very 
 opposite colour his " List of Tolls payable,'' Funking a cobbler, smoking 
 cigars at divans and club-houses, fleecing each other in the Hells around 
 Jermyn Street, drinking champagne at Charley Wright's in the Haymarket, 
 claret and brandy at Offley's, and "early pearl" and dogsnose at the Coal 
 Hole, wearing large whiskers, and false noses and moustachios, exchanging 
 blackguard baninage with women of the town in and about Covent Garden, 
 the Haymarket, and Piccadilly '' Bem^e that's yer sort! Keep it up 
 keep it up/" 
 
 Blown. Exposed, informed against. 
 Blow a Cloud. Smoke a pipe. Cock a Broseley. 
 Blue Blazes. Spirituous liquors in general, Gin in particular. 
 Blue Ruin. Gin, called blue from its tint, and ruin from its effects. In 
 the words of Otway most gin drinkers are " in love and pleased with ruin .' '' 
 
 Blunt. Cash, or money of any value, or in any quantity. Lots of blunt, 
 plenty of money "Thou dear delightful evil." 
 
 Bob, or Bobstick. A shilling. 
 
 Bobbish. Smart, active, clever. 
 
 Bodkin. William Bodkin, Esq., or as he was familiarly termed Billg 
 Bodkin, was originally a painstaking Broker and Auctioneer at Islington, he 
 was the first Hon. Sec. to the Mendicity Society, which office it was said he 
 found more lucrative. So neglected knocking down, for the sake of taking-up, 
 giving the vagrants their quietus " With a bare Bodkin." For further par- 
 ticulars about this sharp Bodkin see Billy Waters. 
 
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 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Bolt, Throat, Sluice your bolt Drink. 
 
 Bone-setter, A hackney-coach, also a hard trotting horse. 
 
 Booked, The time fixed when a thief is ripe for the gallows, or when 
 any one is likely to die from some mortal disease. " He's booked for a ride 
 in a Government omnibus, i.e., prison van." " You are booked for a ride to 
 Gravesend." Secured, bespoke, in for it, dished ! 
 
 Booze. Liquor, " To drink." '< Rum booze,'' good drink. 
 
 Boozey. Drunk. Man being reasonable must get dr\ink. Byron. 
 
 Boozing-ken. An alehouse, or tavern. 
 
 Bosh. A fiddle. To fake a bosh, to play the fiddle ; Boshmen, fiddlers, 
 or musicians in general. 
 
 Bought. I have bought that and no mistake, i.e., paid too much for it. 
 Bought and sold : taken in and done for. 
 
 It would make a man as mad as a buck, to be so bought and sold. Shakespeare. 
 
 Bouncing Chit. A bottle, from the explosion in drawing the cork. 
 
 Boxed. Locked up. Cabin'd, crlbb'd, and confined. 
 
 Boxing a Charley, Upsetting a watchman in his box. 
 
 Box of Dominoes or Ivories. The mouth, containing the teeth. 
 
 Box of Minutes, A watch Watches you know, were made to go. 
 
 Brads. Half- pence, also money in general Shell out the brads Jack, 
 
 Brass. Money, also impudence, " A man who carries plenty of brass 
 in his face will never lack gold in his pocket," 
 
 Bread Basket, The s'tomach. 
 
 Breaking up of the Spell, The breaking up of a party of long sitting: 
 the nightly termination of performance at the theatres, which is regularly 
 attended by pickpockets, who exercise their vocation about the doors and 
 avenues leading thereto, 
 
 Broads-Cards, Swell Broad-Coves, Elegantly dressed card-players ; 
 also possessing a good address with other requisites befitting them to keep 
 company with gentlemen. 
 
 Broad Fencers. The Cads and fellows who hawk Lists, or k'rect cards, 
 at races, Pierce Egan, in an account of " The gallant and spirited Race at 
 Knavesmire in Yorkshire, for 500 gs, and 1000 gs. bye 4 miles. Between 
 the late Colonel Thornton's Lady and Mr. Flint," and reported by him in 
 " Book of Sport," thus graphically describes the Broad Fencer of the 
 period : " The Cads, and fellows with the Race Lists, were thus hawking 
 their bills and cards over the race ground to obtain purchasers. Come my 
 worthy sporting gentlemen from all parts of the kingdom now's your time 
 to open your eyes and look about you, when you will see to-day what you 
 never saw before in your life, and, perhaps, you may never see again, if you 
 live as long as Old Methuselah. Come, I say, who's for a list the whole 
 
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 list, and nothing else but a true list besides, you will have a correct and 
 particlar account of the terrible, terrible, terrible high-bred female the 
 good-lady of Colonel Thornton ; there is nothing like her in the universal 
 world, bid Astley's troupe are mere patches upon her managing a horse, she 
 will this day ride a match like a lady, over the four mile course for 500 
 guineas, and 1000 guineas bye ; and some hundreds of thousands are like- 
 wise depending upon this most extraordinary match between the ' ' Jockey in 
 Petticoats" against the well-known sporting character Mr. Flint, in his 
 *^ doe skins a,nd top boots ;^^ and looked upon as one of the best gentlemen 
 riders in the nation. You have also the names of the horses, and the colours 
 of the riders, with every other particular that can enlighten your minds, and 
 make you gentlemen sportsmen acquainted with this lively race. You have 
 now the opportunity to lay out your money according to your inclination. 
 The gentleman allows the lady to ride what weight she likes, there being a 
 mutual understanding between them upon the subject ; therefore, she will 
 not, like commoners go '^ to scale " as she will not be handled by any body 
 before she starts for the prize ; indeed, the Female Jockey is not considered 
 any weight at all. Her importance and self-possession are the only objects 
 for consideration. What does spirit, fire, blood, and gaiety weigh, I should 
 like to ask ? I answer nothing, my masters ! Such high bred qualities 
 are as light as air brisk as the wind and 2 to 1 towards winning. You 
 have also at the same price, the plain and simple pedigree of the female 
 Jockey. Her ^^ sire" was a capital " good un ; " her c?am, a prime fleet 
 " un," an Eclipse in character ; her brother, all that could be wished upon 
 the turf, for getting over the ground like a sky rocket, her sister, a Nonpareil 
 at all points, and above any price, but her owner, her out-and-out owner, the 
 Colonel from his "upper crust" down to his "walker," is a match for all 
 England against any thing for every thing alive either on the turf or turn- 
 pike, from a mouse to an elephant : and nothing else but winning belongs 
 to his stable. And lastly, though not the least in the above Catalogue of 
 Excellence, every point of the Female Jockey is tip-top, her agility is 
 captivating ; and she mounts her prad like the most accomplished horseman 
 in the world. Her movements defy expression ; her nods to the females, as 
 she rides over the Course, delightful ! but her smiles to the applauding gentle- 
 men, in answer to the winks, bows, and other marks of politeness towards 
 her, as compliments for her daring exploits, are fascinating, elegant, and 
 nothing else but winning. She is seated upon her high-bred animal with all 
 the firmness of a Nimrod ; she holds her reins with the most perfect ease and 
 style ; and Chifney, in the best of his days, never displayed a better know- 
 ledgo of horsemanship than the Female Jockey, and she flourishes her whip 
 with all the good taste of the leader of a band at a concert. In fact, she is 
 a Nonesuch! a Paragon!! a PHEJiO.MENON ! ! ! 'Rqv prad too. Old 
 Vingarillo, is also a picture of goodness, from his peepers down to his fetlocks ! 
 Therefore, my worthy sportsmen, do not lose this opportunity be not too late 
 but purchase this great curiosity this List of lists -nothing like it having 
 occurred in Yorkshire, or, in any other part of the globe since Noah's flood 
 either before or since the wet season of the year ; and it is York Minster to a 
 brass farden that nothing like it can occur again till we have a new generation 
 of the hum^n race ? 2'hat's a fact ! ! ! 
 
I 62 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Buckingham, Thomas. Comedian and Comic-singer, died September 2, 
 1847, aged 52. 
 
 Buffers. Dogs. Buf-napper, a dog stealer. 
 
 Broom. To brush, to run away. 
 
 Browns. Half-pence and pence " Got any browns, Jem, for a drop o' 
 Max? No, Bill, not never a voa left ; s'elp me criky.'' 
 
 Buffs Buffaloes and Buffaloism. A society lield at the Harp 
 Tavern in G-reat Russell Street, opposite Drury Lane Theatre, and was first 
 established in August, 1822, by an ecceatric young man of the name of 
 Joseph Lisle, an artist, in conjunction with Mr. W. Sinnett, a comedian, to 
 perpetuate, according to their ideas upon the subject, of that hitherto neglec- 
 ted ballad of " We'll chase the Buffalo ! " The society is composed of 
 numerous Performers, and other " comical wights " resident in the metro- 
 polis. The ceremony of making a Buffalo is very simple, yet extremely 
 ludicrous, and productive of great laughter. At first the person intended to 
 become a Buffalo, is seated on a chair in the middle of the room, with a 
 bandage placed over his eyes. The initiated Buffaloes are waiting outside 
 of the door ; the orator being decorated with a wig, &c., for the occasion. 
 On a given signal, they all enter the room, with what they term the Kangaroo 
 Leap, and jump round the chair of the " Degradkd wretch," as the 
 victim is termed. This is succeeded by a solemn march, and the following 
 chaunt ; the Buffaloes carrying brooms, shovels, mops, and a large kettle 
 by way of a kettledrum : 
 
 Bloody-head and raw-bones ! 
 Bloody -head and raw-bones ! 
 Be n<it perplexed, 
 This is the text. 
 Bloody-bead and raw-bones ! 
 
 The CHARGE is then given to the "victim" by the Prima Buffo_ accom- 
 panied by the most extravagant and ridiculous gestures : 
 
 "DEGRADED WRETCH ! Miserable ABnxsT'E.^WUnfortuna'e in- 
 dividual ! ! ! At least you were so, not a quarter of an hour since. You are 
 DOW entitled to divers privileges : you may masticate, denticate, chump, grind, 
 swallow, and devour, in all turnip fields, meadows, and pastures ; and mote- 
 over, you have the especial privilege of grazing in Hyde Park ; Think of 
 that my Buffalo ! You may also drink at all the lakes, rivers, canals, and 
 ponds ; not forgetting the Fleet and lower ditches. You are entitled to par- 
 take of all public dinners, upon your paying for the same such are a few 
 of the advantages you will enjoy ! but you must promise to gore aud tosn all 
 enemies to Buffaloism ! You must likewise promise to patronise the Horns, 
 at Kennington ; and occasionally visit Horn-sey Wood, where you may do 
 what you like best rusticate, cogitate, or illmirate, and prove yourself an 
 JTor;?-ament by respecting the natives of the island of Goree-hk! " 
 
 The bandage is then removed from the eyes and the chorus of '^ Chase 
 the Buffalo,''^ is repeated. The victim \s then led into the passage, and tlie 
 
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 signs, &c., are given to him, after which he is ushered into the room with the 
 full chorus of : 
 
 See ! the conquering hero comes, 
 
 Sound the trumpet beat the drums, 
 
 Sports prepare, the laurels bring, 
 
 Songs of triumph to him sing. 
 
 He is then called. on for the accustomary fees for liquor, and a small com- 
 pliment for the Buffalo in waiting : the expenses are in proportion to th 
 means, or inclination of the newly -made member. The liquor is introduced 
 by the chorus altered from the Pirates : 
 
 " We Buffaloes lead a jolly, jolly life, Fal de, &c., &c." 
 
 A blessing is then given by the Prima Buffo, reminding the new member 
 that the greatest characters in the country have solicited to become 
 Buffaloes, and the following is sung in solemn style. 
 
 Hakponians list unto me, 
 
 And Kangaroos rejoice ! 
 And Buffaloes lift up your horns, 
 
 Whilst I lift up my voice. 
 
 Oh ! Joseph Lisle a painter is. 
 
 And a Buffalo besides ; 
 So sit not in the scorner's chair. 
 
 Nor Buffaloes deride. 
 
 Now Buffaloes join in a roar, 
 
 Be heard from pold to pole ; 
 My solemn chaunt is at an end, 
 
 Because you've heard the whole / 
 
 Bull. A crown. Haifa bull, half a crown. 
 
 Bunch of Dog's meat. A squalling child in arms. 
 
 Bunch of Fives. A slang term for the hand or fist. 
 
 Bunch of Onions. A watch chain and seals. 
 
 Bunch of Turnips. Itinerant fruit vendors, &c. 
 
 Bunter. A low loose woman. ** Neither maid, wife, nor widow." 
 
 Burlington Arcade, The Piccadilly, London, opened 20th March, 1814. 
 
 Burster. A small loaf. A burster and beeswax, bread and cheese. 
 
 Bustle. Money of any sort or quantity. 
 
 Buzz Buzzers. Pickpockets. 
 
 Buzz Napper. A young pickpocket. 
 
 Buzz Napper's Academy. A school in which young thieves are 
 trained to the art. Stow informs us that in 1585 a person named Wotton 
 kept an Academy for the education and perfection of pickpockets and cut- 
 
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164 A VOCABULARY 
 
 purses : two devices were hung up one was a pocket, and the other was a 
 purse ; the pocket had in it certain counters, and was hung about with hawk's 
 bells, and over the top did hang a little scaring bell ; the purse had silver in 
 it, and he that could take out a counter without noise of any of the bells 
 was adjudged a judicial napper ! 
 
 Cabbage. Cloth, stuff, or silk, purloined by tailors and sempstresses, who 
 are for ever, snip! snip!! snipping!!! Cuttings i\ia\, serve for trimmings to 
 an occasional merry-making leg of mutton. 
 
 Cadge, Cadger, Cadging. To beg, a beggar, begging of the lowest 
 degree ; a mean sort of ihief. Very indefatigable persons iu cheir vocatioQ. 
 
 Cads of the Aristocracy. Liveried footman, servants, and all other 
 
 hangers on upon the nobility and gentry- 
 Cake. A silly fellow, cakes being made like him, of very soft dough, and 
 
 not over well baked. Our cake's dough on both sides. Shakespeare. 
 Call me cousin but cozen me not Quoth Mrs. Saunders. 
 Calves gone to Grass. Said of a man with slender legs. ''He's put 
 
 some hay in his boots, and his calves have gone down to feed." 
 
 Calves' Head. A tallow-faced fellow, with a large meaty head. 
 " Calves' head is best hot," was the apology for one of those who made "no 
 bones " of dining with his hat on. 
 
 Came up to the Scratch. A pugilistical phrase ; also said of a person 
 who keeps his appointments in money matters. 
 
 Canary. A sovereign. Canary Birds, inmates of prisons. 
 
 Canister. The head, with a sly allusion to its emptyness. Cracked 
 canister, a broken head. 
 
 Cant. A language made use of among beggars, gipsies, thieves, and the 
 Fancy in general. 
 
 Captain. A travelling title, adopted by adventurers, who have no other 
 good enough. 
 
 Captain is a good travelling name, and so I took it, it stops a good many foolish 
 enquiries that are generally made about gentlemen who travel ; it gives a man an air of 
 something, and makes the drawers obedient. And thus far I am a captain, and no 
 farther. Farquhars, TJie Beaicx's Stratagem. 
 
 Captain Flasham. A blustering, bounceable fellow. 
 Captain Queernabs. A shabby ill-dressed fellow. 
 
 Carcase Lords. Wholesale butchers who monopolise and forstall the 
 markets. " For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered 
 together." 
 
 Card. A man, who may be a knoiving, a downy, cunning, shifting, queer, 
 or any other sort of Card according to circumstances. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. l6$ 
 
 Cart Wheel A five shilling piece. 
 
 Carving knife, A sword. 
 
 Castle Tavern. The Castle Tavern, Holbof-n, was first opened as a 
 Sporting House by the well-known Bob Gregson ; but designated at that 
 period undei the familiar title of Bobs Chop House : 
 
 His house is known to all the milling train ; 
 He gives them liqaor, and relieves their pain. 
 
 The appearance of Bob Gregson was prepossessing he was in height 
 six feet one inch and a half, weighing about fifteen stone six pounds. It is 
 rather singular to relate that Bob Gregson rose in the estimation of the Sport- 
 ing World, from defeat, he fought only three battles in the P.R. , and lost 
 them all thus, beaten by John Gulley, 200 gns., 36 rds., near Newmarket, 
 Oct. 14, 1807. Again beaten by John Gulley, 200 gns,, 75 mins., 28 rds., 
 May 10, 1808. Beaten by Tom Cribb, 500 gns., 23 rds., Moulsey Hurst, 
 Oct. 25. 1808. The sun for a long time shone brilliantly over the " Temple 
 of the Fancy," but poor Bob, like too many of his class, did not make hay 
 while it was in his power ; when the scene changed, the clouds of misfortune 
 overwhelmed him ; and the once sprightly, gay Lancashire hero was com- 
 pelled to beat an inglorious retreat. The stylish, well' conducted ToM 
 Belcheb, next appeared in the character of landlord of the Castle, The 
 house had undergone some repairs, the rooms were all retouched by the 
 painter; elegance with cleanliness, backed by civility, became the order of the 
 day ; a prime stock of liquors and wines were also laid in to command the 
 attendance of the public. Tom^s opening dinner was completely successful, 
 and the Fancy rallied round a hero who had so nobly contended for victory 
 in thirteen prize battles. Tom was also considered the most accomplished 
 boxer of the day ; and the remembrance, likewise, that he was the brother of 
 the renowned Jem Belcher, were points in themselves of great attractions in 
 the Sporting World ; and the above Tavern again became one of the most 
 favourite resorts of the Fancy in general. Tom Belcher, after fourteen years 
 residence at the Castle, was enabled by his civil conduct, attention to 
 business, good luck, and a good quantity of the *'^ Sweeteners of Life" with 
 Bank ! security against a rainy day, he retired to a very handsome cottage 
 on Finchley Common, living at his ease like a man of fortune, with his dog 
 and his gun. Tom Spring Champion of England next appeared in the 
 character of "Mine Host" at the Castle Tavern. "His appearance" said 
 Pierce Egan "is very much in his favour; and there is a manly dignity 
 about his person which is prepossessing, his language is also mild and per- 
 fectly correct ; and his behavour at all times truly civil and attentive to his 
 customers." A night spent at Tom Spring's may not be regretted by the 
 mo&i fastidious \ieitov. If the mr cannot at all times be gratified with the 
 various topics of argument brought forward ; the eyes have no cause for com- 
 plaint, the coffee room and every part of it is covered over with some attrac- 
 tive device, and if there are not so many pictures for criticism as may be seen 
 at the Exhibition, there are a number of most excellent sporting sub- 
 jects well worthy the attention of the observer. One of the most prominent 
 amongst them for a display of talent is a ' * Picture of the Road going to the 
 
I 66 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Fight " drawn and etched from life by Robert Criukshank, Esq., but often 
 attributed to his brother, George Cruikshank. As this is not the fact, and as 
 the opportunity occurs we hasten to set the matter right, in order that every 
 tub may stand upon its own bottom, or, in other words, that the saddle may 
 be put on the right horse. Soon after the above "Picture of the Road to 
 the Fight" was hung up at the Castle Tavern, I met there one evening my 
 two friends, Mr. Hone (the very clever editor of the ' Every Day Book ' and 
 several other publications of merit) and Mr. George Cruikshank. On looking 
 at the picture, I\Ir. Hone said to me, after praising it to the skies, " George has 
 out-done himself! " " No," I replied, " you mean Bob Cruikshank." " In- 
 deed, I do not," answered Mr. H., "I repeat, that George has out-done 
 himself; and more clever touches of art I never saw they are beautiful!" 
 " Well," said 1, " if you are so positive, Mr. Hone, I will bet you anything 
 you like, from a glass of grog to a five pound note, that Bob Cruikshank 
 accompanied myself down the Road to Moulsey Hurst, to accomplish the 
 above picture," Upon Mr. Hone appealing to George Cruikshank on the 
 subject, the latter celebrated artist, without the least hesitation, answered, 
 "/ had no hand in ity After this declaration, Mr. Hone did not attempt, 
 to retract the compliments he had paid to the merits of the picture in 
 question ; but, of course, they now operated with double effect on the talents 
 of Mr. Robert Cruikshank. In conclusion, I have only to observe that the 
 Castle Tavern is open at all times to the visitor, either to confute my repre- 
 sentation of it, or to verify the truth of my assertion but of this circumstance 
 T feel strongly assured that an evening spent at the above sporting bouse will 
 never prove a source of regret to the stranger who is anxious to witness some 
 of the peculiarities of " Life in London." 
 
 Castor. A hat. To prig a castor, to steal a hat. 
 
 v^ci&Lui. ii. aac. xo prig a casior, ro sieai a 
 Cast-your-Skin.To pull off your clothes. 
 
 Champagne. Charles Wright, of the Haymarket, London, and else- 
 where, is the purveyor par excellence! of this sparkling and spirit-stirring 
 nectar, which being good in quality and moderate in price he is patronized 
 by all the knowing kiddies in town and country. But do not take my word 
 for it, but call in and judge for yourself. 
 
 Champions of England. From 1719 to 1857 Figg 1719. George 
 Taylor 1734. Jack Broughton 1740. Jack Slack 1750. Iem 
 Stephens 1760. George Meggs 1761. Bill Darts 1764. Tom 
 Lyons 1769. Harry Sellers 1777. Johnson 1785. Ben Ryan 1790. 
 Mendoza 1792 John Jackson (retired) 1795. Jem Belcher 1803. 
 Pearce (the Game Chicken) 1805. Gully (declined the office) 1808. 
 Tom Cribb (received a belt, not transferable, and cup) 1809. ToM Spring 
 (received four cups, and resigned office) 1824, Jem Ward (received a belt, 
 not transferable) 1825. Ueaf Burke (claimed the office) 1833. Bendigo 
 (beat Deaf Burke, claimed championship, and received a belt from Jem 
 Ward). Ben Caunt (beat Nick Ward, and received a transferrable belt by 
 subscription) 1841. Bendigo (beat Caunt, and got the belt) 1845. Perry 
 (the Tipton Slasher, after his fight with Tom Paddock, claimed the otiice, as 
 Bendigo declined fighting again) 1850. Harry Broome (beat Perry, and 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 167 
 
 succeeded to the office) 1851. Perry (again claimed the office, Harry 
 Broome having forfeited to him in a match, and retired from the ring) 1853, 
 The office still claimed by the Tipton Slasher, who, during 1856 received 
 forfeit from both Tom Paddock and Aaron Jones, 1857. 
 
 Charley. A London watchman before the introduction of the present 
 system of police. 
 
 Chaunt. To sing or to make known. The birds chaunt melody on every bush. 
 
 Chaunter. A puffer, or hired bidder at a sale. See Horse Chauntek. 
 
 Chawbacons. Country clodhoppers, rustics. 
 
 Cherry-colour. A jocular name given to either of the two colours in a 
 pack of cards, A black cat is said to be a cherry -coloured cat, there being 
 black as well as red cherries. 
 
 Children in the Wood. Dice. " Once before he won it of me by false dice." 
 
 Chivey To run after, to chase, to move off quickly. 
 
 Chivey your Nurse. To get rid of your tutor, guardian, father, &c. 
 
 Chovey. A shop as crocus chovey, a chemist shop, &c. 
 
 Chum. A companion, a bedfellow, a fellow prisoner. 
 
 Church going Stays. That is best stays for special purposes. 
 
 Churchwarden. A very long clay pipe. 
 
 Churchyard Cough. A cough that is likely to terminate in death. 
 
 Church with a Chimney in it. A pubHc house. 
 
 Civil Rig. A trick of the beggars to obtain money by ultra civility. 
 
 Clap of Thunder. A glass of brandy. 
 
 Claret. Blood. "I tapped him on the nose and out flew the claret." 
 Claret-faced having a red face. 
 
 Clean gone. Quite out of sight, vacated, levanted. 
 
 Cleaned Out. Having lost all your money, beaten, ruined. *'0 horrid, 
 horrid case." 
 
 Clean Shirt Day. Sunday. 
 
 Clenched it. Completed the thing, or clenched the bargain. 
 
 Clockey. A watchman, also a travelling clockmaker. 
 
 Cly. A pocket, cly-fakerss, pickpockets. 
 
 Coal. Money, post-the-coal^ pay down the money at once. 
 
 Cock and Hen Club. A public-house concert, or Free-and-Easy, to 
 which women are admitted, and everybody is supposed to do as they like, to 
 stand upon no ceremony, come when they please, and brush when it suits. 
 But all sorts of lush must be tijiped for on delivery. " Poor Trust" being 
 dead and buried. " To keep the game alive," Logic said to Tom and Jerry, 
 " you shall now accompany me to what is termed a Cock and Hbn Club. 
 
I 68 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Where you may say and do as you like, the crib is situated in an obscure part 
 of the town, but I know it well." * * * On entering the club-room 
 Jerry was struck with astonishment at the surrounding group. "It is 
 nothing new to me," replied Logic, "but rather a renewed feature of low 
 Life in London. But we will ask the waiter for some little account about the 
 chairman, who appears to me to be an original ; and we must also obtain, if 
 possible, a trifling outline of his assistant, the Lady Fatroness of this meeting. 
 The chairman in petticoats." 
 
 *' They are both out-and-outers,^^ answered the waiter, "and nothing like 
 them on earth to keep such an unruly company together, as ' Any -thing 
 Tommy ' and ' Half-quartern Luce ! ' The chairman Tommy, has been, by 
 turns, a costard-monger, a coal-whipper, a fl.ying dustman, a boner of stiff- 
 ones that's a resurrection man, and a " anything,^'' to yarn an honest penny, 
 and a bit of a prig, if it suited him, sooner than have to complain of an 
 empty Victualling -Office. He can throw off a flash chaunt in the first style ; 
 and patter slang, better than most blades on the town : " 
 
 Come all you rolling kiddy boys, that in London does abound, 
 If you wants to see a bit of life, go to the Bull in the Poimd; 
 'Tis there you'll see Poll, Bet, and Sal, with many other Flames, 
 And " pitch and hustle," " ring the bull," and lots of Fancy games. 
 
 "As to Half-quartern LuCB," continued the waiter, "she's a clever 
 woman, in fact, she was reared a real lady, bnt now she is scarcely ever 
 sober. I have known her to drink thirty-six half-quarterns of gin in a day : 
 it is from her love of blue ruin she derives her name. Luce was once a very 
 handsome woman, but she has been reduced, step by step, to the wretched 
 creature she now appears to be, and drinks herself stupid to drown all 
 reflections." 
 
 " I have witnpssed a great variety of scenes, since 1 have been in London," 
 said Jerry to Logic, ' but this is equal to any, if it does not beggar the 
 whole of them, in truth, I had not the least idea that such meetings were 
 suffered to take place." 
 
 Coffee Mill. A watchman's rattle. 
 
 College. The Fleet Prison, or King's Bench, a rough school, but salutary 
 at times, coUegiates, the prisoners. 
 
 Coper. or Horse couper a cheating horse dealer. See Horse Chaunter 
 
 Core. The heart. In my heart's core. Horatio. 
 
 Cooped up. Confined in the Poultry Counter^ or elsewhere. 
 
 Chaffer. - The mouth. 
 
 Chaffing Crib. A drinking-room where quizzing or bantermg is carried 
 on. Ghaff'-cutting , joking, jesting, playing on words. 
 
 Chalk, A. An advantage. Take a chalk, the admitting of the advantage. 
 In public-houses it is usual for the habitues to keep the score of a game of 
 cards, dominoes, or coddom, &c , by means of chalk marks thus, | | | | | ; 
 therefore when one of the parties gains an advantage, he takes a chalk by 
 rubbing one out. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 1 69 
 
 Chalk Farm. A well-known tavern and tea-garden, near Primrose-hill, 
 alias Cockney-mount, between Hampstead and Highgate. This house is 
 said to have taken its name from the farra being of a chalky soil, or, do they 
 use double chalk! to their customers, who frequent this house either lor 
 amusement or mischief ! the ^'farin" is much resorted to by those persons 
 who cannot settle a dispute without the use of powder and shot. Hence 
 Jemmy Green says" Veil, I'm glad its settled vithout bloodshed Chalk 
 Farm ! pistols ! half-past six ! Pooh ! ! ! 
 
 Chalk Up. To have credit at a public-house, where they usually chalk 
 up the amount behind the door, or on a large slate kept for that purpose. 
 
 Copy of Uneasiness. A copy of a writ. 
 
 Corinthians. Sporting men of rank and fashion : i am no proud Jack, 
 Like Falstaff, but a Corinthian, a lad of mettle. Shakespeare. 
 
 Corinthian Kate and her friend Sue. In the original Life in London 
 these ladies were meant as sketches in water colours of the notorious Mrs. 
 Maples, alias Mrs. Bertram, alias Mother Bang ; and the no less notorious 
 Harriett Wilson, alias Mrs. Colonel Rochfort ; heroines whose "birth, parent- 
 age, and education life, character, and behaviour," have been made ex- 
 ecrable by that congenial pair of publishers in infamy Messrs. Stockdale and 
 Luncomhe .-The characters of Kate and Sue are in rather different keeping 
 in the dramatic version, and are at the service of any couple of modest, 
 harmless, though at the same time somewhat adventurous, love-sick, roving 
 young ladies, that may choose to claim them. 
 
 Costermonger.-^See my friend Hone's Jewel of a Work, for Instruction 
 and Amusement, the Every Day Book, Vol. I. 
 
 Cousin Betty. A travelling prostitute, frequenting fairs, races, and 
 country club feasts. Ah ! could you but see Bet Bouuceroi these parts, you might then 
 talk of beauty. Ecod ! she has two eyes as black as sloes, and cheeks as broad and red 
 as a pulpit cushion." Tony Lianpkin : She Stoops to Conquer. 
 
 Cove, or Covey. A knowing fellow, covess feminine of cove. Covess of 
 the Ken, the mistress of the house. 
 
 Cover me Decently. A great coat with men, and a cloak with women. 
 
 Court Card. A trump, or out and out good one. A spirited fellow. 
 
 Crack. The fashionable theme. The Go! All the crack ! First-rate, 
 as a crack article, an excellent one ; crack a bottle, to drink ; crack a crib, to 
 break into a house ; crack a canister, to break a man's head ; a crack-fencer, 
 one who sells nuts ; a crack hand, an adept ; in a crack, in a moment ; crack a 
 kirk, to break into a church or chapel , crack, horses men races regi- 
 ments, &c. , all first class of their kinds ; crack-up, to praise ; to crack a whid 
 or wheeze, to make a joke, jokes or witticism ; a crack-whip, a good coachman. 
 
 Crib. A house, or an apartment. 
 
 Cribb's Crib. A slang alliteration for Tom Cribb's house, the Union 
 Arms, corner of Oxendon Street and Pant on Street, Haymarket. 
 
 Cross. A very general term for getting a living by dishonest means, and 
 symbolized by placing the forefingers thus X ^^^ ^^ ^^ direct opposition to 
 
170 A VOCABULARY 
 
 being on the Q, as implying honesty. A cross-fight, a sold prize fight. 
 Cross-nien, thieves and receivers of- every degree. Gross-crib, a public-house 
 where thieves " most do congregate." 
 
 Crowdsman. A fiddler. 
 
 Cubitt's Machine. The treadmill. 
 
 Cucumbers. Tailors, because both are seedy. 
 
 Cut along Coaches. The accidents of life. 
 
 Cyprians. Women of loose morals. So called from the Island of Cyprus, 
 one of the chief seats of the worship of Venus, hence called Cypria. 
 
 Cruikshank, Isaac Robert. Caricaturist, born 1791. Illustrated 
 many books, &c., including Pierce Egan's, "The Finish to the Adventures 
 of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their pursuits through Life in and out of 
 London," 1827. Died March 13, 1856. 
 
 Cruikshank, George. Caricaturist, born September 27, 1792, Illust- 
 rated Hone's political squibs, 1817-20 ; " Peter Schlemil, Mornings at Bow- 
 Street," and in conjunction with his brother *'Tom and Jerry," and many 
 other books since, died 1879. 
 
 D. 
 
 Dab. A bed, also a slight blow, as a dab on the cheek. 
 
 Daffy. Gin, Gin, sweet, sweet Gin! Pierce Egan says in his " Book op 
 Sports and Mirror op Life." "During the time Tom Belcher was the 
 landlord of the Castle Tavern, Holborn, the Daffy Club was started by Mr. 
 James Scares" See Baron Nab'em. " The above elub is a complete anti- 
 dote to the Blue Devils, and has to boast of greater advantages than any other 
 Society in the Metropolis, from its members being always in Spirits! 
 Formality does not belong to this Institution ; it has no written rules to bind 
 its members ; no specified time of meeting ; no fines for non-attendance ; 
 but the corner-stone is " To do what is right." The only definition I can 
 give to the term "Daffy" is that the phrase was coined at the Mint oi 
 Fancy, and has since passed current without being overhauled as queer. The 
 squeamish Fair One who takes the Dafpy regularly on the sly merely to cure 
 the vapours, politely names it to her friends as " White Wine."" The Swell 
 chaffs it as ^'- Blue Euin " to elevate his notions. The Laundress loves dearly 
 a drain of " Ould Tom,'" from its strength to comfort her inside. The dray 
 Fiddler can toss off a quartern of " Max " without making a wry mug. The 
 Coster Monger illumines his ideas with " a flash of lightning.'' The hoarse 
 Cyprian owes her existence to copious draughts of '' Jacky.''^ The Link Boy 
 and Mud Larks, in joining their browns together, are for some ^^ Stark Naked.'" 
 And the Out and Outers, from the addition of bitters to it in order to sharpen 
 up a dissipated and damaged Victualling Office, cannot take any thing but 
 ** Fuller's Earth.'^ Much it should seem, therefore, depends upon a name ; 
 and iis a soft sound is at all times pleasing to the listener to have denomi- 
 nated the Sporting Society the " GIN CLUB," would not only have proved 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 171 
 
 barbarous to the ear, but the vulgarity of the chaunt might have deprived it 
 of many of its elegant friends. It is a subject, however, which must be ad- 
 mitted has a good deal of Taste belonging 10 it and as a Sporting Man 
 would he nothinff if he was not Jlash, the DAFFY CLUB meet under the 
 above title." 
 
 Dairies. Bosom a woman's breasts. Milk-cans ! 
 
 Dandy. A coxcomb a fop ; an empty-headed, vain person. In 1820, 
 when Geo III. mizzled, and Geo. IV. reigned with thunder and lightning 
 speed. Pierce Bgan published the birth, parentage, and education of the 
 Dandy thus: The Dandy was got by Vanity o\xt oi Affectation his dsim, 
 Petit-Maitre or Maccaroni his grand-dam. Fribble great-grand-dam, 
 Bronze his great-great-great -grand -dam, Coxcomb and his earliest an- 
 cestor. Fop. His uncle Impudence his three brothers Trick, Humbug, and 
 Fudge ! and allied to the extensive family of the Shuffletons. Indeed, this 
 Bandbox sort of creature took so much the lead in the walks of fashion, that 
 the Bdck was totally missing ; the Blood vanished ; the Tippy not to bs 
 found , the Go out of date ; the Dash not to be met with ; and the Bang- 
 up without a leader, at fault, and in the back -ground. It was only the 
 Corinthian that remained triumphant his excellence was of such a 
 genuine quality that all imitation was left at an immeasurable distance. 
 
 Dandiprat. An insignificenfc or trifling fellow. 
 
 Dandy-cock. A little dandy man, one of the Bantam breed. 
 
 Darkey. Night, also a man of colour. 
 
 Dead-beat. Quite done up, not a leg to stand on. Common phrases in 
 the Sporting World, when a man or a horse is so completely exhausted with 
 over-exertion, or the constitution breaking down, as to give up the object in 
 view, not being able to pursue it any farther. 
 
 Deadly's Fluid. Gin, distilled at Deady and Hanley's, Hampstead Road. 
 
 Dealer's in Queer. Passers of bad notes. 
 
 Demirep. A flighty womam, too free in her manners. 
 
 Devil's Bones. Dice, which are made of bones and lead to ruin. 
 
 Dibdin, Charles. Writer of sea songs and operas, born 1745, died July 
 25, 1814. His evergreen! Ballad Opera, The Waterman; or. The First of 
 August, was first performed at the Haymarket Theatre, 1774, thus cast : 
 
 Tom Tug ... Mr. Bannister. Mrs. Bundle ... Mrs. Thompson. 
 Bundle ... Mr. Wilson. Wilhelmina ... Mrs. Jewell. 
 
 Robin Mr. Weston. 
 
 Dimmock. Money. To flap the dimmock, to spend the money. 
 
 Dive. A visit to the lower regions of Wapping and St. Giles's. 
 
 Diamond Squad. People of quality. Vide Almack's. 
 
 Dog Billy. The This celebrated Hero of the canine race to the great 
 joy of the rats, lost his wind on Monday, February 23, 1829, in Panton Street, 
 
172 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Haymarket. The body-snatchers and dog-priggers are out-done upon this 
 suit, and the remains of Billy, instead of being obscured in clay, are pre- 
 served in an elegant glass case and gilt frame. The Ex- Champion, Tom 
 Cribb, who liked Billy when alive, still likes him although told out. Billy 
 was the property of (Jhariey Aistrop when he last barked out an adieu , al- 
 though Cribb was his tender nurse up to the time when he gave up the ghost. 
 The rats it is said, are extremely glad to find Billy has left no successor to give 
 them a nip. 
 
 MONODV ON THE ABOVE RaT KiLLER. 
 
 Not a bark was heard but a mournful whine 
 Broke in cadence slow from the race canine ; 
 And the prick'd-up ear, and wagging tail, 
 Were drooping low 'mid the general wail. 
 
 ****** 
 
 ****** 
 
 Not a bark was heard but a lively squeak 
 Was echoed from rat to rat (a whole week), 
 I From Whitechapel Church to Piccadilly, 
 
 Of " Long life to grim Death for boning Billy ! 
 
 Done the thing Right. Managed matters properly, taken care of one's- 
 self and one's friend. 
 
 Dollop. A handful. A lump of anything. 
 
 Dominoes. The teeth. 
 
 Down. Understanding. To be down. To understand, to he Jig. 
 
 Doxies. Loose women prostitutes. 
 
 Dragging-Time. The evening of a fair-day, when the wenches are 
 pulled about. 
 
 Draggle-Tail. A slut, a dunghill quean. 
 Drinking Freely. Not paying for it. 
 
 Drop. The gallows, which always proves to be the " last drop," or "a 
 drop too much.''' 
 
 Duce. Twopence. 
 
 Dummy. A cant phrase for a stupid fellow ; a man who has not a word 
 to say for himself. The family of the dummies is a very numerous one. 
 Dust. Money. Down with the dust, to spend money. 
 Dust-Hole. The nose, otherwise Snuff-receiver ! 
 Dustman. Sleep, or drowsiness. 
 Dustypoll. A nickname for a miller. 
 
 E. 
 
 Earth Stoppers. Horses' feet. Earth Stopping, stopping up the holes 
 of foxes previously to hunting them. 
 
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 Egg-Hot. Beer, eggs, spirits, sugar, and spice made hot. 
 Everlasting Shoes. The feet. 
 Everlasting Staircase. The treadmill. 
 Eye Water. Gin. 
 
 Face. Impudence ; To face it out. To persist in an assertion which is 
 not true. To maintain without changing colour, or hanging down the head. 
 Brazen-faced, without shame. 
 
 God hath given you one face, and you make yourself another. Shakespeare. 
 
 Fadge. To suit or fit together " How will this fadge ?" also a street 
 term for a farthing. 
 
 Family People. Rogues and thieves of every degree : All of the same 
 family or Kidney ! 
 
 There is nothing but roguery to be found in villianous man. Shakespeare. 
 
 Fancy. Boxing, bull baiting, cock fighting, and sporting in general. 
 
 Fancy Piece. A sporting phrase for a bit of nice game kept in ^preserve 
 in the suburbs. A sort of Bird of Paradise. 
 
 Fast trotters. Rum prads, good horses. 
 
 Felt. A hat. '* What manner of man ? is his head worth a hat." 
 
 Fib. To beat or strike with the fist. Fibbed, held with one hand, and hit 
 with the other. 
 
 Fiddle. A rattle, Charleys' fiddle, a Watchman's rattle. 
 
 Fiddler's Fare. Meat, drink and money. 
 
 Fig. To fig a horse is to place a bit of ginger under his tail to make him 
 frisky. Fig, dress. In Full Fig, full dress. "All in the best." 
 
 Fig leaf. An apron, an allusion to our Mother Eve. 
 
 File. An odd fellow, a queer dog, a bit of a rogue. 
 
 Finish, The '^Finish'' was a notorious night-house kept by Jack 
 Rowbottom, in James-street, Covent Grarden. Here the swells who were 
 bundled out of Offley's, al>out four o'clock in the morning bundled into the 
 Finish, where drinking and other innocent pastimes were kept up till eight, 
 nine, or ten o'clock. Jack Rowbottom was quite a study in character. Soon 
 after 1832, he got into " diffs," and his residence was divided between the 
 King's Bench anM the Fleet Prison. In the latter poor Dr. Maginn expired 
 in his arms, after being faithfully nursed and attended by Jack during a long 
 illness. 
 
 Fish Fishing : Some fish for compliments, and get what they want. 
 Some fish in dirty waters and get what they do not want : but remain as mute 
 as a fish on the subject. 
 
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 Fives. Bunch of Fives,' the fist Fives Court (The) was a large room in 
 the neighbourhood of St. Martin's-lane, where the prize fighters of the day 
 took their Benefits and made open challenges. 
 
 Flame. A sweetheart. An old flame, a discarded one. 
 
 Flash. Cant language, also to sport or show off". A fellow who affects any 
 particular habit, as swearing, dressing in a particular manner, taking a 
 fashionable snuff, &c , &c., merely to be noticed, is said to do it out oi flash. 
 Flashman, a despicable wretch and the paramour of a prostitute. 
 
 Flash of Lightning. A glass of gin, "gone in the twinkling of an eye." 
 Flat Catcher. A man, woman, or any article intended to take in the public 
 Flat cum Sharp: par nobile fratrum. There is not a word in cant or 
 flash vocabulary, nor, in the English language, taken in its right sense and 
 meaning, that conveys so much, and is so generally applicable, as the simple 
 monosyllable Flat. There are flats of every rank, grade, and station in 
 society, in every part of the known world and possibly in the unexplored 
 portion also. There SLve flats alike in office and out ; in the senate house and 
 in the cottage from the councillor of state to the omega of legislators, paro- 
 chial vestrymen ! Oh, most comprehensive patronymic ! Sharp is also a 
 good term ; but only a cipher, in numerical strength of application, when 
 compared with^a^. Flat is an independent, honest, and respectable word. 
 Sharp is diametrically opposite ; it owes its very birth to flat, and cannot 
 live without it. Flat is the parent ; progenitor, and preserver of sharp, the 
 very root and sap of its existence. Without flats sharps would become 
 extinct. The fact of sharp having sprung horn flat is so apparent, that there 
 is not a sharp to be found that has not Q.flat about him ; there consanguinity, 
 therefore, is undoubted. 
 
 Such is human nature, that three parts of the vast universe is peopled with 
 flats ; while the circumscribed and degenerated race of sharps do not occupy 
 more than a quarter or one fourth of the space. Another proof may be 
 adduced of the independence of the flats, and that is that they can live, 
 flourish, and prosper much better without the company of sharps than with 
 it. Not so with the sharps. They cannot herd and feed together without 
 first getting the means from the substance and resources of the flats. "We 
 think we have satisfactorily proved to every dispassionate, disinterested 
 individual, that sharps are entirely dependent upon their fathers and fore- 
 fathers, ihe flats ! and there can be very little doubt but that the}^ are both 
 uns:rateful and undutiful to the parents who have, as we have shown, given 
 them being, succour, the means of existence. 
 
 If a sharp happens to reside in the neighbourhood of a flat, he will always 
 be found setting his wits to work to relieve him of his property and earnings, 
 even though the sharp have plenty, and the flat but little. Such is the un- 
 dutiful penchant of the sharp for the goods and chattels of his progenitor the 
 flat! 
 
 In this good city, not inappropriately denominated the world's metropolis, 
 flats and sharps are plentiful, and may be found located together in every 
 street and alley. Although the flats have the advantage numerically, such 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 175 
 
 are the ingenuity and plausible tactics of the sharps, that they compel the 
 flats to work to support them. The shm-ps, though industrious at scheming, 
 always profess, as their creed, a profound and rooted contempt for manual 
 labour. Sharps are not found among gravel-diggers or stone -breakers ; we 
 may go further seldom amongst artisans or mechanics of any description. 
 No, they are men whose exalted minds soar far above the ordinary pursuits 
 even of middle life. The army boasts of them in abundance. The navy 
 may be said to be composed o? flats, with scarcely one exception. The at- 
 tachment of the sharps to the red-coat service of their country is clearly 
 demonstrated by the fact of the elite of their class conferring military titles 
 on themselves, without troubling the formal publicity of the Gazette! We 
 may safely venture to assert, that there is not an army of any nation that 
 can boast of the number of staff-officers that adorn the lists of our royal 
 corps of London malleteers, otherwise gentlemen sharps. They resemble our 
 disbanded militia, only the staff preserved. It is said and sung that "One 
 half the world does not know how the other half lives or dies." How true 
 is that oft-used aphorism ? What quiet, respectable, church-going citizen 
 would believe that, early as he rises to give his best care to the legitimate 
 commerce of his enterprise, there are many traders in the illegitimate mer- 
 cantile world who are wide awake, and in full pursuit of their customers 
 long before his drowsy eyes are open to the brightly-shining sun ; long 
 before the aforesaid shining sun has superseded the gas-light radiance shed 
 over the populous city of London : 
 
 From East-end to West -end. 
 From worst end to best end ? 
 
 Flats. Persons easily taken in, good customers. 
 
 Flesh and Blood. Port wine and brandy mixed. 
 
 Flimsy. A bank note, according to Cobbett a very flimsy thing. 
 
 Floored. Knocked down. 
 
 Flowers of Society. The ornaments of high life, the upper classes. 
 
 Flue Fakers. Chimney sweepers. 
 
 Fly. Knowing, wide awake. 
 
 Fogle. A handkerchief. 
 
 Fork out. To give money. 
 
 Four Eyes. The man and the spectacles. 
 
 Free-and-Easy. A singing-club, held at public-houses. 
 
 Freshwater Bay. The harbour of the Fleet-'Priaon. 
 
 Frisk. Mischief, to dance and skip about. 
 
 Fullams. Loaded dice. There were high. fuUams, and low fullams, to 
 denote loaded on the high or low number. 
 
 Full Cry. When all the hounds have caught the scent, and give tongue, 
 Tom and Jerry, when in town, had other game in view. 
 
176 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Fuller's Earth. Another of the thousand endearing names for the 
 universal favourite GiN ! Gin ! ! Gin ! ! ! 
 
 Funk. To smoke, to alarm. 
 
 C 
 
 Gab. Small talk, patter, flash. Gift of the Gab, talent in conversation. 
 
 Gaffing. Low gambling. 
 
 Game of the Spell. The play of life. 
 
 Gammoners. Cheats. 
 
 Gammoning the Draper. When a man is without a shirt, and is 
 buttoued up close to his neck, with merely a handkerchief round it, to make 
 an appearance of cleanliness, it is termed '^gammoning the draper!''^ 
 
 Gammoning a Main. Pretending to be hurt, or crippled. 
 
 Garnish. Entrance money, to be spent in drink, demanded of all new- 
 comers in Debtor's Prisons. 
 
 Gay Tyke Boys. Dog fanciers. 
 
 Gig. Fun. Bit of gig, a bit of fun. 
 
 Gin Spinners. Distillers, also publicans. 
 
 Glim. A lanthorn, a hazy eye, &c. 
 
 Goldfinches. Sovereigns.** Pine singing birds." 
 
 Go it. Keep it up : keep moving. 
 
 Gomersal, Edward Alexander, Actor : represented with wonderful 
 success Napoleon, in the Astley's dramatic version of the Battle of Wateiloo, 
 died at Leeds, October 19th, 1862, aged 74. 
 
 Grand-twig. Handsome set out. 
 
 Grand Strut The. Rotten Row, Hyde Park. 
 
 Gravel Digger. A sharp toe'd dancer. 
 
 Greeks. Black legs, sharpers, &c. Also a terra for low Irish People. 
 
 Green. Raw, not understanding. 
 
 Greyhound, A. Should have according to all sporting Kiddies: 
 A head like a snake, a neck like a drake, 
 A back like a beam, a belly like a bream ; 
 A foot like a cat, a tail like a rat. 
 
 Grimaldi, Joseph. Vulgo, Joey Grimaldi, the renowned clown, 1779-1837. 
 
 Grog. Rum and water cold without. Admiral Vernon was called " Old 
 Grog'" by his sailors, because he was accustomed to walk the deck in rough 
 weather in a " grog ram cloak," as he was the first to serve water in the rum 
 on board ship, the mixture went by the name of Grog. Tom, Jerry and Bob 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 177 
 
 Logic found out its use and abuse not only in the Back Slums in the Holy 
 Land, but at Mr. Mace's Crib in the East. 
 
 Grub. It is scarcely necessary to explain the meaning of grub; it is a 
 subject in the mouth of everybody, and therefore interesting to the taste. 
 Indeed, this sort of cant is quite current throughout all ranks of society, and 
 is well understood. Grub and Bub, victuals and diink of any kind. 
 
 Grub-street. This phrase, respecting the residence of Authors, is nearly 
 obsolete ; and, in point of fact, is altogether erroneous. If it might not be 
 deemed trespassing rather too feelingly upon so delicate a subject, in consulting 
 the best authorities, both living and dead, it will be found that hungry 
 Authors, in the best of times, have had very little to do with grub-street ! 
 the sinell of the joint being mora within their province than the actual 
 possession of the substance. 
 
 Guinea Pig. A fellow who receives a guinea for puffing off an unsound 
 horse. 
 
 H 
 
 Habeas Corpus. Body and breeches. 
 
 Haberdasher. Is the whistler, otherwise the spirit-merchant and tape 
 the commodity he deals in. It is a contrabrand article dispensed in Debtoi's 
 Goals. White is Max, and red is Cognac. " You see " says the Haberdasher, 
 "smuggling does a lot of good, it does me good, and it does you good, and 
 do'nt you see it does the Government ! " 
 
 Hack. A coach. See Jarvey. 
 
 Half and Half Coves. Neither one thing nor the other. 
 Hammer School. Boxing School. 
 
 Harp. The Harp tavern in Russell Street, Drury Lane, is well known 
 if the phrase is not offensive to the profession, as a House of Call for Actors. 
 Here you have an opportunity of viewing, and interviewing players in and 
 out of an engagement, stage-struck youths, anxious to become actors ; and 
 other pei'fect enthusiasts, together with mummers, and spongers without end, 
 ever ready to get Lush out of you, or make you a member of the City of 
 Lushington ! see Buffaloism. 
 
 Then off he went, quite full of glee, 
 
 Strutting towards the Harp, 
 In hopes some manager to see ; 
 Mixing with Flat and Sharp ! 
 
 Pierce Egan's 7"^^ S/iow Folks. 
 
 Hartland, Frederick, Pantomimist, died August l7th, 1852, aged 70. 
 
 Hear any thing knock. Take the office, to be put up to any thing that 
 is going forward. 
 
 Heavy Plodders. Stock brokers. 
 Heavy Wet. Porter, 
 
178 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Hedge. To ^^ hedge 0/,'' or '''its a prime hedge for me,^' are phrases 
 repeatedly made use of in the Sporting World, when an individual wishes to 
 save himself from any serious consequences. 
 
 Heel Tap. ** Bumpers all round," and no heel-taps ! " that is," said Bob 
 Logic, "your glasses are to be drained to the bottom." 
 
 Hell. A gambling house, from the infernal practices carried on in such 
 places. In 1823 Lord Byron wrote " What number of Hells there may be 
 now in this life, I know not. Before I was of age, I knew them pretty 
 accurately, both " Gold " and " Silver." I was once nearly called out by an 
 acquaintance, because, when he asked me where I thought that his soul 
 would be found hereafter, 1 answered, ' In Silver Hell.' " 
 Don Juan, our young diplomatic sinner, 
 Pursued his path, and drove past some hotels, 
 St. James's Palace, and St. James's Hells. 
 
 Hells upon Earth. Is a name given to the Swell Gambling-houses, at the 
 West-end of the town ; most of them situated in the vicinity of St. James' 
 Street. Some of the principal of these have been queered outright, by the 
 vigilance and exertions of the beaks, whose orders to the traps upon the subject 
 were so imperative, that taking tip to stash the matter, was quite out of the 
 question ; and some of the most distinguished Spirits that haunted these 
 infernal abodes, were actually put under the discipline of CuhitVs Machine 
 to purify. But though the amateur of the broads may as he perambulates 
 the suburbs of the Palace, see reason in many instances, to mourn for the 
 desolation of his ZiON, there are still enough of these places to make " a Hell 
 upon earth " for thousands. All of these now remaining, are however eclipsed 
 by the piscatory Hell, called Fishmongers'' Hall ! so named, from Crockford, 
 the keeper of it, having formerly been a Fishmonger, many persons remember 
 Crockford, a poor, very poor Sprat Seller, yet he must now be living at the 
 rate of nearly 4000, annum. " Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur inillis.'^ 
 at this establishment money is sported like dir/, which may account for so 
 many of the visitors being cleaned out. It is a question whether any other 
 Fishmonger's shop,can boast of so numerous an assembly of^^a^^s/i andgudgeons. 
 
 Impromptu. 
 
 On hearing that Mr. Ude, the celebrated cook, was engaged by Mr. 
 Crockford, at a salary of 1,200 per annum. 
 
 With this Ude for a cook who all cooks doth excell 
 There'll be nothing on earth like a dinner in " Hell ! " 
 
 Hen and Chickens. All my pretty chickens and their dam, St. James'. 
 The Missus and the blooming kids, St. Giles'. 
 
 Highflier. A tip-topper, a first rater. 
 Hop Merchant. A dancing master. 
 Holy Land. - The back slums of St. Giles'. 
 Holy Water. Gin. 
 
 Horse Chaunter. A man being brought up at one of the police courts, 
 the magistrate asked, "What is your trade?" "^ horse chaunter, yer 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 1 79 
 
 vurship." "A what! a horse chaunter? Why what's that?" "Vy, yer 
 vurship, ain't you up to that ere trade ?" "Come, explain yourself," said the 
 magistrate. " Veil, yer vurship, I fifoes round among the livery stables they 
 all on'em knows me and ven 1 sees a gen'man bargaining for an 'orse, I just 
 steps up like a stranger, and ses I. "Veil, that's a rare 'un, 111 be bound,' 
 ses I ; 'he's got the beautitullest 'ead and neck as ever I seed,' ses I ; ' only 
 look at 'is open nostrils he's got vind like a no-go-motive, I'll be bound ; 
 he'll travel a hundred miles a day, and never vunce think on't ; them's the 
 kind of legs vat never fails." Veil, this tickles the gen'man, and he ses to 
 'imself, ' that 'ere 'onest countryman's a rale judge of a 'orse ; ' so please you, 
 yer vurship, he buys 'im and trots off. Veil, then I goes up to the man vat 
 keeps the stable, and axes 'im, 'Veil, vat are you going to stand for that 'f re 
 chaimt ? ' and he gives me a suvrin. Veil, that's vat I call 'orse chaunting, 
 yer vurship ; there's rale little 'arm in it ; there's a good many sorts on us ; 
 some chaunts canals, some chaunts railroads, some chaunts j'int stock 
 companies, and ther's a werry many other chaunts in this 'ere vorld as is too 
 numerous to mention and some on 'em as even me nor ye vurship is'nt fly too." 
 
 Hot House. A brothel: "Now she professes a hot-house, which T 
 think, is a very ill-house too." 
 
 Hot Waters. Spirits. 
 
 Humming Ale. Strong liquor that froths well. A corruption of 
 spuming. French, espuma, froth. Latin, spuma. 
 
 Hummums. The well-known hotel in Covent Garden. So called from 
 an Eastern word, signifying baths. Rockley and the Co. is the Boss of 
 the Show, and Tawny Port the order of the day. Bob Soutar ultra 
 crepidam ? and Joe Cave fat) actor ? May for your dresses, and White for 
 spangles. Chaffcutting from 12 till 5 daily. 
 
 Hyde Park. London, W., was the ancient manor of Hyde, belonging to 
 the Abbey of Westminster, became Crown property at the dissolution 1539. 
 It was sold by parliament in 1652, but was resumed by the King at the 
 restoration in 1661. The Serpentine was formed 1730-33. "My dear 
 Jerry," said Tom, *' Hyde Park is in my opinion, one of the most dehght- 
 ful scenes in the world. Indeed it is a fine picture of the English people. It 
 is in this Park, Jerry, that the Prince may be seen dressed as plain as the 
 most humble individual in the kingdom ; the Tradesman more stylish in his 
 apparel than his Lordship ; and the Shopman with as fine clothes on his 
 person as a Duke. The Countess not half so much ' bedizened ' over as her 
 own Waiting-Maid ; the Apprentice- Boy as sprucely set-off as a young sprig 
 of Nobility ; while the Milliner's Lass in finery excels the Duchess. But 
 the air of independence which each person seems to breathe renders the tout 
 ensemble captivating." 
 
 " Observe those prime bits of blood,'' from the choicest studs in the king- 
 dom, prancing about as proud as peacocks, and almost unmanageable to their 
 dashing riders. The Goldfinches of the day trying to excel each other in 
 point of coachmaLship, turning their vehicles rapidly almost to the eighteenth 
 part of an inch, each priding himself in having obtained the character for 
 
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l8o A VOCABULARY 
 
 displaying the most elegant " set-out.''^ The Man of Ton staring some 
 modest female, that attracts his attention, completely out of countenance ; 
 while the Lady of Rank, equally delicate in her ideas of propriety, uses her 
 glass upon the same object till her carriage removes her out of sight. The 
 Debauchee, endeavouring to renovate or brace himself up with the fine air 
 of the Park, ogling all the girls that cross his path. The Sw^ell Dandy 
 could not exist if he did not show himself in the Park on a Sunday. The 
 Gambler on the looh'Out to see if any new pigeon appears in the circle, in 
 order to plan future operations that may turn out to his advantage. The 
 peep o^-day Woman of duality, who, night after night, disposes of all her 
 hours of rest in card-parties and routs, is here to be seen riding down the 
 circle to chit-chat and nod to her friends, in order to get rid of her yawnings, 
 and to appear something like being aivake at dinner-time. The Peer, relax- 
 ing from his parliamentary duties, and the Members of the Lower House 
 here take a ride among the various parties in the circle, to hear their conduct 
 and measures descanted upon, and likewise to " pick-up " a little information 
 respecting the buz on public affairs. The scheming Procuress sporting some 
 new-caught lady-birds in a splendid carriage, in order to excite attention and 
 to distribute her cards with more effect. The wealthy CiT, whose plum has 
 rendered him sweet amongst his grand next-door neighbours at the West-end 
 of the town, here shows himself with all the confidence derived from a 
 splendid fortune. The extravagant Fancy-Lady, making use of the thousand 
 little arts that she is mistress of, trying to take the shine out of all tho other 
 females in the circle, merely to show the taste and liberality of her keeper. 
 The^ashy Tradesman, who laughs at the vulgar prejudices of old sayings 
 and propriety about " Keeping your shop and it will keep you," here pushes 
 along in his natty gig and prime trotter, and appears upon as "good terms" 
 with himself as the richest banker in London, laughing in his sleeve at the 
 idea, that, if anything goes wrong from his stylish pursuits, a temporary 
 absence from his friends, united with the aid of white-washing, will soon 
 make him " all right again.'' 
 
 It is equally interesting and attractive, from the numerous characters of 
 both sexes, ogling each other, as they frequently come in contact. The 
 Tailor confined to his shop-board all the week, enjoys the double advantage 
 of gaining a little fresh air in the Park, as well as admiring some of his own 
 performances on the backs of many of the dashing crowd ; and the Milliner, 
 also upon the same errand, not only to improve her health, but to retain in 
 her eye the newest fashion sported in this hemisphere of the Great. The 
 pleasure, too, of being knov/n and recognized by your friends and acquain- 
 tances. The numerous bows an 1 friendly How d'ye do's ? With that 
 admired sort of Life in London, all jostling against each other in the Park 
 with the utmost sang-froid. The Nobleman and the Yokel the Divine and 
 the ^^ Family -man ^^ the Player and the Foet the Impure and the 
 Modest-girl the Grave and the Gay the Flash Cove and the Man of 
 Sentiment the Flat and the Sharp the Dandy and the Gentleman the 
 out-and-out Swell and the Groom the real Sportsman and the Black-Leg 
 the Heavy Toddlers and the Operators the dashing Bum Trap and the 
 Shy Cove the Marchioness and her Cook the Ddke and the ^^ Dealer in 
 Queer," the Lady and her Scullion the Pink of the Ton and his 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 " Rainbow the Whitechapel Knight of the Cleavek and his fat^i^ the 
 Barber's Clerk and the Costard- Monger the Slavey and her Master the 
 Surgeon and Resurrection Man the ardent Lover to catch the smiling 
 eye of his Jfis^r^ss the young Blood in search of adventures and to make 
 assignations. 
 
 It ought, however, not to be forgotten, that every thing which is lovely, 
 interesting, honourable, virtuous, generous, feeling, witty, elegant, and 
 humane, which tends so much to give the English females a proud superiority 
 over those of most other nations, is here to be met with in a transcendant 
 degree ; and it should also be remembered, that every thing which is 
 designing, crafty, plausible, imposing, insinuating, and deluding, is likewise 
 to be run against in these gay paths of pleasure. The passions are all ajloat^ 
 but Gaiety of disposition overtops the whole. 
 
 I. 
 
 Index. Reference. 
 
 I'll Chance It. A common expression among sporting men, wheu the 
 object in view is doubtful of accomplishment. It is a good Hat that is never 
 done. 
 
 I's Yorkshire Coves. Doncaster horse dealers. 
 
 Isle of Bishop. A phrase among the Collegians at Oxford for getting 
 jolly over port wine, roasted oranges and lemons. 
 
 Ivories. The teeth : wash^ or sluice your Ivories ; drink. 
 
 Jackson's Rooms were in Bond Street. Mr. John .'ackson, otherwise 
 Gentleman Jackson ? The proprietor was for a long time the connecting link 
 between the patrons and practitioners of the Prize Ring. His persevering 
 and honourable character enabled him to realize a handsome competence. 
 He died at his residence 4, Grosvenor-street, Eaton-square, Oct. 7, 1845, 
 aged 76. 
 
 Jarvey. A Hackney-coach "Better known perhaps by the name of a 
 Hack : handy enough in wet weather or in a hun-y." 
 
 Jemmy. A head. Bleeding Jemmy. A sheep's head, otherwise a Field- 
 lane duck, otherwise The one eyed joint, otherwise Claretted James, otherwise 
 Sanguinary Jacobus, otherwise a Fastoral Countenance, otherwise a Mountain 
 Pecker, otherwise a Peaceful Profile. That man is to be pitied, who has not 
 luxuriated on the delicasies of one of these, hot from the pan in their native 
 element, at Mrs. Holmes', the Two Brewers the Sheep's Head Tavern, 
 Little St Andrew Street, Seven Dials. Where the particular guest is never 
 offended with a dirty table cloth, that appendage to mastication being invari- 
 ably dispensed with , always taking care that they are accompanied with 
 their proper and only sauce a little of Hodges's best, or Deady's true cordial. 
 Poor Colley Skylark, the Apollo of the pugilistic corps, has neglected many 
 
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 lordly banquets, for the felicity of feeding on them, and gouging out the rich 
 eye in company with many of the gifted and learned of the age, viz. The 
 Keen pride of the British stage the Comic Sheepface of Covent Uarden - 
 The talented author of the Cigar who acted as Clarke to the meeting ; in their 
 nocturnal vigils, and rich chaunts, will long be remembered there. Let us 
 hope that Mr. Nash, the great architect, in his projected inroads through the 
 Seven Dials, will spare this sacred haunt, so dear to the sons of good-feeding 
 and fellowship. If he has ever had the happiness of regaling there, on a 
 red hot bleeding jemmy ! this remonstrance will not be needed. 
 
 Jemmy Green. Every one must know this gentleman ; he is a veritable 
 being, and in being ; -but as he is here said to live in Tooley Street, in the 
 City, a place of no existence, no libel will lie. The lively Bunch of Greens, 
 therefore, that at one time sd pestered th Author with threatening and other 
 letters, are informed their suspicions are quite correct, and that they were 
 most certainly the officious empty fools of which this character is the 
 representative. 
 
 Jerry Sneak. A henpecked husband. From the poor sniveling Cockney 
 cur in Foote's farce of the ** Mayor of Garrett." 
 
 Johnny Raw. A countryman. 
 
 Juniper. Gin. 
 
 Junk. Salt beef. 
 
 K. 
 
 Kean. ''Rear Kean speahp Edmund Kean, the celebrated tragedian, 
 1787-1833. 
 
 Kean's Head The. Was a well-known theatrical tavern in Eussell 
 Court, Drury Lane. It had previously been called the O.P. and P.S. but 
 re-christened in honour ! to the celebrated tragedian then in the zenith of 
 his fame, the late Edmund Kean : 
 
 Then off again, no fear or dread, 
 
 To the once famed O.P. 
 In better taste chang'd to Kean's Hhad 
 
 And noted for a sj>ree ! 
 
 Pierce Egan's The S/1020 Folks. 
 
 The tavern was much frequented by all persons directly and indirectly 
 connected with the theatrical profession. And was at one time kept by 
 Tom Hudson, a jolly bon vivant, and famous comic song writer and singer, 
 of whom Pierce Egan, wrote "his facility in producing songs is astonish- 
 inghe also sings them with a peculiar naivete, and tells his ' story ' to 
 his company better than most men, who are not regular performers. In 
 his line, he is a second Charles Dibdin, senr. The above tavern," continues 
 Pierce Egan "afforded considerable amusement to its visitors, as a few 
 wags, fond of a bit of fun, frequented the coffee-room every evening, and, 
 in concert together, represented themselves as managers from the country, 
 in want of performers, and waiting in turn to engage young men for 
 
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 different ' lities of business,'" to complete their companies. This had the 
 desired effect ; and numerous ludicrous scenes was the result, which defy 
 anything like communication, and enthusiastic, stage-struck, inexperienced 
 youths afforded these pretended managers sport and roars of laughter, 
 night after night. The plan generally adopted was, that one of the party 
 kept on the look out to pick up a simple youth having a soul ahove 
 buttons ! and having got one in tow, he was formally introduced to the 
 assumed proprietor of a country theatre. The latter person, with a face of 
 gravity, then inquired whether he wished to engage for the light or heavy 
 business of the stage, or if singing was his forte ; or, perhaps, he could 
 undertake the general line, and assist in melo -dramas, spectacles, &c., &c. 
 The manager then, with a polite request, wished to have a 'taste' of the 
 young man's quality, before he finally settled his engagement, and fixed 
 his salary. And several young aspiring heroes, anxious to obtain an 
 engagement, have been prevailed upon to mount the table, and to give 
 selections from Romeo, Hamlet, and Octavian, &c., amidst the shouts of 
 pretended applause from country actors, wags of all sorts, and men of the 
 world, who nightly resorted to this tavern, to pick up anecdotes, and spend 
 a pleasant hour. When the managers ! thought they had had enough of 
 this burlesque, ' the exit the exit,' would be whispered one to another, 
 and while the hero on the table was spouting out some impassioned speech 
 from Shakespeare, his back would be readily assailed with the contents of 
 their jugs ; and upon the unfortunate wight hastily looking round for the 
 authors of such an assault, his front, from another part of the company, 
 would be attacked in the same manner. Redress was out of the question, 
 and the more passion and rage exhibited by the youth, produced the more 
 laughter ; when he was informed it was the way to teach him how to make 
 his ' exit ' in a rage ! and that no person would deny him the title of being 
 a wet actor. It was Tom Hudson who altered the sign of the tavern to the 
 Kean's Head : a remarkable likeness of the great tragedian was hung over 
 the fireplace, and he was wont to visit Tom and take a drink after the 
 fatigue of the night's performance. The mere rumour of this attracted 
 many to the house. A capital harmonic meeting took place late at night 
 or rather early in the morning, which was supported by a mixture of pro- 
 fessionals from the theatres, and amateurs of talent and celebrity. Vain 
 endeavours were seldom entered upon at Tom Hudson's ; a pretender was 
 soon coughed down. Amongst the leaders of the vocal department who 
 contributed to the musical attractions were Morton Box ; Jem Savern ; 
 Little Harris ; Joe Wells, so popular afterwards in connection with 
 the Coal Hole; Mr. John Hart, late of the Cider Cellars; Tom 
 Prynn, Belasco, and others of great vocal talent and celebrity. 
 Apropos of Edmund Kean, the late Mr. Leman Rede, author and 
 dramatist, in his ' Sketch of the Life of John Reeve,' relates the fol- 
 lowing anecdote ' Kean's name was the * open sesame ' to all night 
 houses near the theatres ; and ere John Reeve came upon the stage, he was 
 apt to indulge much in the 'little hours.' He and his friends, lads of his 
 own age, could not have got admission, but he knew the secret, and acted 
 accordingly. After giving a mystic knock, he applied his mouth to the 
 keyhole, and with an exactitude of imitation that defied detection, ex- 
 
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 claimed ' 'Tis I Kean Edmund Kean ! ' In an instant the door 
 
 was opened ; in glided Reeve, saying, with an easy assurance, ' Ned's just 
 gone round the corner back in a moment.' " 
 
 Keep the Line. To behave in a becoming manner: not to forget one's self. 
 
 Keep it Up. To prolong the debauch, or game. A term made popular 
 by frequent reiteration. 
 
 Keep up the Ball. Be jolly. Keep the ball rolling, is also used in 
 the same sense. 
 
 Kick. A sixpence. Quite the Kick, quite a dandy. 
 
 Kick the Bucket. To die. 
 
 Kick over the Traces. To become unmanagable. 
 
 Kicksies. Small clothes, from the appetency of their contents, to the 
 exercise of kicking, and from being the kick the fashion. Take my advice, 
 never resist the law, if a man claims your coat and vestcoat, let him have 'em, or you'll lose 
 your kicksies in trying the argument. And if a man kicks you rub the place, but don't go 
 to law, that's my advice. 
 
 Kid. A knowing boy or man, in a low or Jlash point of view a thief. 
 
 Kiddy. A thief of the lower order, who, when he is well breeched by 
 a course of successful depredations, dresses in the extreme of vulgar 
 gentility, and effects a knowingness in his air and conversation, which 
 renders him in reality an object of ridicule : 
 
 Poor Tom was once a Kiddy upon town, 
 
 A thorough varmint and a real swell. Byron's Don Juan. 
 
 Kiddy. Tasty. Kiddy Artist, a tasty workman. 
 
 Kidney. Men of the same thoughts and kind kindred spirits, &c. 
 Meti of another Kidney. The opposites. 
 
 Kinchin Cove. A paltry thief who robs children even of their bread 
 and butter ; or, a caged-bird of its lump sugar ! 
 
 King of Bath. Beau Nash, master of the ceremonies at that city for 
 some fifteen years (1674-1761). 
 
 Kite Flying. To Jly a Kite is to " raise the wind," or obtain money 
 on bills, whether good or bad. The phrase means as a Kite flutters in the 
 air by reason of its lightness, and is a mere toy, so these bills fly about, 
 but are light and worthless. 
 
 Knacker. One who sings Psalms over a dead horse. 
 
 Knight of the Cleaver. A butcher. 
 
 Knight of the Pestle and Mortar. An apothecary. 
 
 Knight of the Post. A man in the pillory, or that has been tied to a 
 whipping-post. 
 
 Knight of the Rainbow. A cant phrase for a footman in livery, in 
 allusion to the various colours of his clothes also said of a master tailor. 
 8ee Eaixbow. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 185 
 
 Knights of the Road. Highwaymen. Dick Turpins! ! 
 
 Knights of the Whip. Long stage coachmen. 
 
 Knowing. Skilful, well-informed, sharp, shrewd, artful, or cunning. 
 
 Knowing one. Vide Bob Logic. 
 
 Knowledge Box. The head. 
 
 L. 
 
 Lace. To heat. I'll lace your jacket for you I will heat you. 
 
 Laced Mutton. See Shakespeare's : The Two Gentlemen of Verona, 
 Acti., Scene 1. 
 
 Lady Birds. Cyprians, female peripatetics. Light or lewd women. 
 The merchant's daughter died soon after, 
 
 Tears she shed, but spoke no words, 
 So all young men a warning take, 
 
 And don't go with the naughty Lady Birds. 
 
 Lady in Mourning. A negress, a hlack woman. 
 
 Lag. A returned transport. Bill has] been out of the country for some 
 time past studying botany I That is he has heen to Botany Bay as a transport, 
 hut now returned. 
 
 Laid on the Shelf. For further particulars consult any unmarried 
 
 woman under the age of !!! if I know more of any man alive than that 
 
 which maiden modesty doth warrant, let all my sins lack mercy. Shakespeare. 
 
 Lamp. The human eye! The cove has a queer Lamp, the man has a 
 blind or squinting eye. 
 
 Lark, A frolic, joke, spree. Cut your larks, leave off larking. 
 Lawful Blanket. A wife Till 1 have no wife, I'll have nothing else. 
 Lay. A scheme or trick. Shabby genteel lay, a scheme of heggars to 
 excite compassion by dressing as decayed tradesmen. 
 
 Leading strings. The restraint of friends. 
 Leery. To look sharp and knowing from the rolling of the eye. 
 Leg Bail. Eunning away. Your legs did better service than your hands. 
 Legs. Men who live by cheating. Blacklegs, gamblers, &c. 
 Levanters. Persons who run away to avoid paying their debts of honour. 
 Lifter. A thief. is he so young a man, and so old a Wh&r^. Shakespeare. 
 Lighthouse. The watch-house. 
 
 Lily. A black. To paint the lily is wasteful and verj- silly. 
 Lilywhite. A chimney sweeper or negro. 
 
 Limbo. Prison, As far from help as limbo is from h\\ss. Shakespeare. 
 Line. An awkward thing to get into. To give any one Line enough, to 
 let him go his lengths. To keep the Line^ to be correct. 
 
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 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Lion's Share. The larger part ; all or nearly all. In *' ^sop's 
 Fables," several beasts joined the lion in a hunt, but when the spoil was 
 divided, the lion claimed one quarter in right of his prerogative, one for 
 his superior courage, one for his dam and cubs" as for the other fourth, 
 let who will dispute it with me." Awed by his frown, the other beasts 
 silently withdrew. 
 
 Listener. The ear. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice. 
 
 Little Shilling. Love money : just another little shilling diicky I 
 
 Lob's Pound. A prison, the stocks, or any other place of confinement. 
 
 Lothario. A gay libertine, a seducer of female modesty, a debauchee. 
 The character is from "The Fair Penitent," by Nicholas Eowe, 1673-1718. 
 Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario? yict v., Sc. i. 
 
 Low Water Mark. Without cash. " A most damnable condition." 
 
 Lug. The ear from its being very often lugged. 
 
 Lump. The workhouse. 
 
 Lush. Beer and other intoxicating drinks, so called from Lushington 
 the brewer. Lush-crib, a public -house. 
 
 Lushy. Drunk. Introduced by Leigh Hunt and Keats, and others of 
 the Cockney School into the service of poetry " Trees lush with bliss," 
 i.e., Trees drunk with love, possibly of the succulent sort. 
 
 Lushington. Intoxication "the best of life is but intoxication," so 
 said Byron over his gin and water : " there is more truth in it than folks 
 may generally imagine. To join Captain Lushington, to get drunk " See 
 how snugley Captain Lushington's getting aboard of Logic," said Jerry 
 to Corinthian Tom on the night of their visit to ^^All Max, in the 
 East:' 
 
 M. 
 
 Mab. A cabriolet, from the projector, Mr. Maberly. 
 
 Mace. To cheat, impose, rob. 
 
 Mace Cove. A swindler, a sharper, a cheat. A gentleman from the 
 Spice Islands, i.e., a fellow living on his wits. On the mace, to live by 
 swindling. 
 
 Mag. A halfpenny. 
 
 Malty Coves. Porter patrons, heavy wet encouragers, beer drinkers 
 
 and thinkers ! 
 
 Maulagaram. An awkward knock. 
 
 Max. Gin. Oh ! for a glass of Max. Byron's Don /jmu, Canto xi., Stanza i6. 
 His Lordship added by way of a foot-note in explanation of the word Max ! 
 The advance of science and of language has rendered it unnecessary to translate the above 
 good and true English, spoken in its original purity by the select mobility and their 
 patrons. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 187 
 
 Master of the Mint. A punning term for a gardener. 
 
 Master of the Rolls. A baker. Jack Martin, the renowned pugilist, 
 who was a baker by trade, was well known to the Fancy as The Master of 
 the Rolls. 
 
 Masquerade. Masquerades were in fashion in the time of Edward III., 
 1340, and in the reign of Charles, 1660. The Bishops preached against 
 them, and made such representations as occasioned their suppression, 
 9 Geo. I., 1724. They were revived, and carried to shameful excess in 
 violation of the laws, and tickets of admission to a masquerade at Ranelagh 
 were on some occasions subscribed for at twenty-five guineas each. Now, 
 if the reader wishes to take the mask off this scene, let him go and take a 
 glass of champagne with Charles Wright of the Haymarket, and he will 
 fully initiate him into all its merry mysteries, he is at liberty to make use 
 of the Author's name in his enquiries. 
 
 Mazzard. Head. Rap on the Mazzard, a thump on the head. 
 
 Men are but Children of a Larger Growth. From Bryden's, "All 
 for Love," Act iv , Sc. 1. 
 
 Mendicity Society. Red Lion-square, London, was established in 
 1818, for the suppression of public begging, and other impositions. 
 
 Mill. A fight. Millers^ pugilists. Mill the Glaze, break a window. 
 
 Misfortunes. If ^^misfortunes,'''' as the saying has it, "attend the 
 righteous," the wicked as a matter of course cannot expect to go unpunished: 
 although a man might have the *' Old One's luck and his own too ! " " If," 
 said Logic to Jerry after the latter hero had been complaining to him on 
 getting up rather late one morning after a night's spree, that he thought his 
 constitution had got a little scratch since he had left Hawthorn Hall, 
 *' people who are fond of a larh ; enjoy a row ; love a bit of fun ; take a 
 peepata/Jry join in a hop; go to a mill; play at rotiye et noir ; parade 
 the lobby ; stroll through the bac/c slums; visit the cock and dog pits ; spend 
 a few interesting moments at gaffing ; blow a cloud at a free and easy ; meet 
 with Mr. Lushington ; drop in on the sly at a case ; floor the Charleys, and, 
 after all, nothing be the matter, why then it is a prime circumstance in the 
 career of a man indeed. But it is five hundred to one, that All the above 
 events do not come off right, with the most experienced and skilful sportsman : 
 that is to say, my dear friend, if you do not get punished in your person, 
 yet you may be most preciously physicked in your cly ; and, if you have even 
 the good fortune to keep your peepers from being measured for a suit of 
 mourning ; your canister from being cracked; and your face from being 
 spoiled among the low coveys of St. Kitts ; you are, perhaps, even iu more 
 real danger among the refined heroes of the creation, from paying too much 
 " attention'" to their ladies which has often occasioned more than one John 
 Bull sort of ill-natured unaccommodating husband to give such very polite 
 gallants a dose of leaden powder, that has cooled their courage, or, at least, 
 checked their importunities. In society where politeness of that sort is 
 measured out to the extreme nicety of splitting a hair as at the West End 
 assemblies, it will at all times, be well to remember that Misfortunes are in 
 
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 morals, what bitters are in medicine : each is at first disagreeable ; but as 
 the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so Adversity chastens and 
 ameliorates the disposition. Therefore it is much better to endeavour to 
 forget one's Misfortunes, than to speak of them, and ever to bear in mind 
 that : 
 
 " Misfortunes tell us what fortune is." 
 
 Mizzle. To disappear, to leave the company. 
 
 Mob. A contraction of the Latin mobile the fickle crowd. Query: 
 As Mob is mobility, is 2iob nobility ? 
 
 Moisten your Chaffers. To drink. 
 
 Mollishers. A slang term made use of by thieves and police officers 
 for low prostitutes. 
 
 Moncrieff, W. G. T. Otherwise William George Thomas, author of 
 between two and three hundred dramas, &c., died in the Charter-house, 
 December 8, 1857, aged 63. 
 
 Money-Lenders. Bob Logic termed those persons Urags in con- 
 sequence of their repeatingly advertising to render embarrassed individuals 
 assistance, yet making them pat/ well for it ; something after the old adage, 
 that " Brag's a good dog ; but Holdfast is a better ! " 
 
 Mot. A prostitute. A Leary Mot, a knowing one : 
 
 Rum old Mog was a leary flash 7not, and she was round and fat, 
 
 With twangs in her shoes, a wheel-barrow too, and an oil skin round her hat ; 
 
 A blue birds-eye o'er dairies fine, as she mizzled through Temple Bar 
 
 Of vich side of the vay, I cannot say, but she boned it from a Tar. 
 
 Singing FoI-lol-Iol-lido. 
 
 Now Mog's flash com-pan-ion was a Chick-lane gill, and he garter'd below his knee, 
 He had twice h^^n pulCd, and nearly lagg'd, but got off by going to sea ; 
 With his pipe and quid, and chaimting voice, Potatoes he would cry ; 
 For he valued neither cove nor swell, for he had wedge snug in his cly. ^ . 
 
 Singing Fol-lol-lol. 
 
 One night they went to a Cock-and-Hen Club, at the sign of the Mare and Stallion, 
 
 But such a sight was never seen as Mog and her flash com-pan-ion ; 
 
 Her covey was an am'rous blade, and he buss'd young Bet on the sly. 
 
 When Mog up with her doddle bang-up to the mark, and she black'd the Bunter's eye. 
 
 Singing Fol-lol-lol. 
 Now this brought on a general fight, Lord, what a gallows row _ 
 With whacks and thumps throughout the night, till drunk as David's sow 
 Milling up and down with cut heads, and lots of broken ribs, 
 But the lark being over they ginned themselves at jolly Tom Cribb's. 
 
 Singing Fol-lol-lol. 
 
 Mother Cummins. In Dyott Street, St. Giles's now George Street, 
 after George Prince of Wales but called Dyott Street after Sir Thomas 
 Dyott, temp. Charles II., lived that most notorious and world-renowned 
 lodging-housekeeper " Mother Cummins," so well-known to all 'Cn.Q Bvfi^s 
 about town, in their hot youth, when George the Third was King. 
 Oh, she lives snug in the Holy Land 
 Right, tight, and merry in the Holy Land, 
 
 Search the globe round, none can be found 
 So accommodating ! as Old Mother Cummins 
 Of the Holy Land. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 It is related that Major Hanger accompanied George IV. to a beggar's 
 carnival in St. Giles's. He had not been there long when the Chairman, Sir 
 Jeffery Dunston, addressing the company, and pointing to the then Prince of 
 Wales, said " I call upon that 'ere gemman with a shirt for a song." The 
 Prince, as well as he could, got excused upon his friend promising to sing for 
 him, and he chaunted in a prime style a flash ballad full of " St. Giles's 
 (rreek," for which he received great applause. The Major's health having 
 been drunk with nine times nine, and responded to by him, wishing them 
 *' good luck till they were tired of it," he departed with the Prince to afford 
 the company time to fix their different routes for the ensuing day's business. 
 
 Mother Emerson's. A night-house situate in the Haymarket, at one 
 time called the Turk's Head, but of later times named the Waterford 
 Arms, out of compliment to the late generous-hearted and frolicsome 
 Marquis of Waterford, who was a great patron and supporter of the 
 house. 
 
 The late self-styled Lord Chief Baron Nicholson : who was intimately 
 acquainted with "Mother Emerson," wrote of her thus. " In business 
 Mrs. Emerson was a wonder. I cannot possibly do better than present a 
 feketch of her in and out of her trade : " 
 
 NIGHT-HOUSES AND THEIR KEEPERS. 
 Mks. Emerson. 
 
 'Twas landlady Meg that made such rare flip ; 
 
 Pull away, pull away, my hearties ; 
 At Wapping she lived, at the sign of the Ship, 
 
 Where tars met in such jolly parties. Dibdin. 
 
 The famous landlady, Meg of "Wapping, might have been very celebrated, 
 and a very great person, at the time she lived, and at the particular part of 
 the town she resided in, namely, that Fashionable Watering -Place, Wapping ; 
 but all landladies of the present day are placed in the shade, totally 
 eclipsed, by that all-accomplished and indefatigable woman of business, 
 Mrs. Emerson, of the Waterford Arms, late the Turk's Head, Haymarket. 
 
 Although she is not defunct, she may be properly termed the late Mrs. 
 Emerson. Night after night she keeps her body up, and her appearance, 
 every time we see her she seems to look younger and fresher. She is quite 
 a character in her way, and the best flat-catcher in London. *' How d'ye 
 do, my dear ? " is her general salutation to the swells who frequent her 
 lush-crib. "Well, I thank you, mother," is the reply. " What'll you 
 take ? " For it is considered a great honour amongst the flats to get 
 mother to drink with them. " Oh ! Sherry, my son ; Sherry for me," 
 says mother. 
 
 " A bottle of sherry here, waiter," says the flat ; and she makes the 
 favoured few who have the right of entree behind her bar, pay for the dis- 
 tinguished indulgence. 
 
 The Irishmen say, " Who has e'er had the luck to see Donnybrook 
 Fair ? " We ask, " Who has e'er had the luck to see Mistress Emerson on 
 a race-course ? We have, and a greater out-and-outer we never met 
 ' Rich and rare were the gems she wore : " and there you may see the gay 
 old gal togged to the extreme of fashion, with pink silk stockings to dis- 
 
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 play her well-shaped understandings for we must inform our readers that 
 mother don't stand upon trifles generally a nice satin shoe and dress ; also 
 lots-and-lots of jewellery, stated to he worth, including thimble, hoops, and 
 chin-prop, something approaching a cool thousand. It is a great advant- 
 age to single gentlemen ivot go to the races to he acquainted with mother ; 
 she always takes a plentiful supply of tvittles, and an awful lot of the 
 sparkling and still not the private still; for amongst her friends and 
 patrons she makes it as puhlic as possible, and when she is really " standing 
 sam," as she facetiously calls it, you can't make more free than welcome. 
 
 In conclusion, we must observe that we do justice to every one, and seek 
 not to gain popularity by villifying those who are not in a situation to 
 resent it. In many very many instances the public little know or care 
 of whom they speak, and we are all too prone to come to hasty conclusions, 
 and to speak with prejudice and without inquiry. Now be it known to all 
 who care to know, that, Mrs. Emerson is really and truly a very kind- 
 hearted and charitable person, in spite of the very disadvantageous 
 position she stands in with the public by keeping a night-house. She 
 strives as much as possible to prevent the ingress of improper characters, 
 and so far she is successful, for no robbery has ever taken place in her 
 house since she has been in business. 
 
 Mother H's. Was a notorious night-house opposite the front entrance 
 of Drury Lane Theatre, and then the great rendezvous for the gay city 
 birds, as well as the more fantastic dandies of the West-end. Mother H., 
 or Mrs. Hoskins, was the remnant of Mr. Hoskins, who had, in the words 
 of George Barrington, the pickpocket, par excellence! ''Left his country 
 for his country's good." Mother H. is described by a writer who knew her 
 well as the "ugliest woman I ever beheld; but she dearly loved paint, 
 dress, and decorations. Her attire was in the highest style of fashion, 
 generally black velvet or satin, jewellery in profusion, silk stockings, and 
 very neat kid shoes. She had rather a pretty ankle. ' ' Apropos of her 
 shoes, I may remark that the old girl was artful, deceitful, and dishonest. 
 I remember a half-drunken, foolish fellow dropping a handful of sovereigns 
 in the large supper-room. A number of the fair and frail were present ; 
 Mother H. said, " Now girls, stand away, I'll pick them up and see that 
 the gentleman ain't robbed;" she should have added, "J5y/ any one but 
 myself," for about every second sovereign she took from the floor she 
 " welled " in her shoes. " Well," said one of the girls ; '* I don't blame 
 you mother, but I should like to stand in your shoes." Mother H. retired 
 with an ample fortune. Turned as a matter of course, very religious, 
 married a highly respectable timber merchant at Brighton, who died and 
 left her money. She again tried her luck in the matrimonial lottery, 
 although nearly seventy years of age. Her third husband was a serious, 
 calm, tall and respectable Dissenter, who outlived her." 
 
 Mother's Milk. The liquor we like best. 
 
 Mouse. Is a black -or perhaps, more correctly speaking, a swollen 
 eye. 
 
 Move on the Board. An action in life. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 191 
 
 Mudlarks. Men who rake about the mud on the banks of the Thames, 
 when the tide is out, for what they can find. 
 
 Muff. A soft article, a tool, a fool : a soft tJmig that holds a lady's 
 hand without squeezing it ! 
 
 Munden, Joseph. Comedian, died February 6, 1832, aged 74. 
 
 Mutton Walk. The Saloons of Drury Lane and Covent Garden 
 Theatres " Upon the arrival of Tom and Jerry at Drury Lane Theatre, 
 the performances did not operate on their feelings as a source of attraction. 
 It is true they took a glimpse at the play, but as they did not go for any- 
 thing like criticism on the abilities of the actors, or to descant upon the 
 merits of the pieces, it was merely a glimpse indeed. Our heroes went upon 
 another errand. Their eyes were directed to different parts of the house ; 
 and Tom not meeting with any of his acquaintances at ' Old Drury,' as he 
 had anticipated, they immediately pushed off to take a peep at Covent 
 Garden Theatre. A look at the stage was quite sufficient for their purpose ; 
 and without any more delay, the Corinthian and Jerry soon bustled into 
 the Saloon. 
 
 "Tom and his Coz. had scarcely reached the place for refreshments, 
 when the buz began, and they were surrounded by numbers of the gay 
 Cyprians who nightly visit this place. Some of these delicate heroines, 
 soon began to jeer the Corintician on the cause of his absence ; while 
 others of these Lady Birds were offering their congratulations to him oil 
 his restoration to Society. Jerry being in company with so distinguished 
 a hero as Tom was of itself a sufficient source of attraction to these Fancy 
 Fieces to pay their court to Hawthorn ; and, accordingly, their cards were 
 presented to Jerry, in order to grace their lists with the addition of a new 
 and rich Friend. These cards rather puzzled Jerry, who appeared 
 astonished that such dashing females should keep Shops !! ! ? " 
 
 My Uncle. The cant term for a pawnbroker : 
 
 Who lives where hang those golden balls, 
 
 Where Dick's poor rnother often calls, 
 
 And leaves her dickey, gown, and shawls? My Uncle. 
 
 Who, when you're short of the short stuff, 
 
 Nose-Stai ving for an ounce of snufF, 
 
 Will " raise the imnd" without a. puff? Mv Uncle; 
 
 A. poor Punster, who was hurrying through the streets one evening, was 
 met by a friend, who asked him where he was going in such great haste ? 
 The humourist being rather shy in stating his errand, as well as anxious to 
 conceal the poverty of his circumstances, and having only a few minutes 
 left before his ticket, or Mortgage -deed! expired as to date, which not being 
 renewed, his property must have been forfeited, turned off the question, 
 with a smile, observing, " To a place of amusement J^ " What part of the 
 house ? " "To the private boxes." " Is it a good piece ? " " Excellent ! 
 It abounds with incidents ; and you cannot depart without feeling an 
 interest in it." " What's the name of it?" " Just in Time !" " So I'm 
 off at once," replied the Punster. 
 
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 A VOCABULARY 
 
 N. 
 
 Nab. To catch or seize. Nabbedy caught. 
 
 Nabob. Corruption of the Hindoo word Nawab. An administrator, 
 commander, and other high officers under the Mogul empire. These men 
 acquired great wealth and lived in Eastern splendour, so that they gave 
 rise to the phrase, "Rich as a Nawab," corrupted into Rich m a Nabob. 
 In England we apply the phrase to a merchant who has obtained great 
 wealth in the Indies, and has returned to live -and die in his native 
 country. 
 
 Nail. To prig, or to capture, / nailed him on the spot. To pay down 
 on the Nail, to pay ready money on the counter which was often studded 
 over with nails. 
 
 Naked Truth. The fable says that Truth and Falsehood went bathing : 
 Falsehood came first out of the water, and dressed herself in Truth's gar- 
 ments, Truth, unwilling to take those of Falsehood, went naked. 
 
 Nap. To catch, to grasp. 
 
 Napping. To be taken in the act, especially in adultery. "To catch 
 napping Rem in re." 
 
 Napping your Bib. Crying, and wiping your eyes with an apron. 
 
 Nappy Ale. Strong ale is so called either because it makes one 
 nappy, or else because it contains a nap or frothy head. 
 
 Nash. To throw away. Nash your leading strings^ throw off all 
 restraint. 
 
 Natty. Tidy, methodical and neat. Natty Lads, young pickpockets. 
 
 Needful. Money. To show the Needful, to produce the money. 
 
 Never-wag Man of War. The Fleet Prison. 
 
 Nibble. To steal. 
 
 Nob. Head. Nobbed, thumped on the head. 
 
 Nob Thatchers. - Straw bonnet makers, also wig makers. 
 
 Nod. He's gone to the land of Nod, i.e., he's gone to bed. 
 
 Noodle. An ass of the human species. 
 
 Nose. An informer. Out on the nose, a night search. 
 
 Nun. A mealy mouthed prostitute. 
 
 Nurses. Guardians, tutors, &c. 
 
 Nutty. To be nuts upon, is to be very much pleased or gratified with 
 any thing : thus, a person who conceives a strong inclination for another 
 of the opposite sex is said to be quite nutty upon him or her. 
 
 Who on a lark, with black-eyed Sal (his blowing) 
 So prime, so swell, so nutty, and so knowing. 
 
 Byron's Don Juan. 
 
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 Office. Warning. To give the Office, make people aware. 
 
 Offley's. A sporting hotel, the resort of the Corinthians of the day- 
 was in Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. To the men about town the 
 excellence of Offley's catering was well known. In cooking a beefsteak, he 
 was unrivalled; and many a gentleman who had a great stake in the 
 country would walk miles to have a small steak in London, cooked and 
 dished up under the superintendence of " Old Offley " together with a nip 
 of ale, the quality of which was on a par for excellence with the other 
 good things of the house. 
 
 Mr. Offley lies buried in the churchyard of Sti Paul, Covent G-arden, 
 only a few feet from the back window of the room which was the scene of 
 so many agreeable orgies. Shortly after his death a hearty toast to his 
 memory was drunk in claret, over his grave, by a few of the jovial herd 
 who loved him in life, and respected him in the tomb. 
 
 Ogles. Eyes. Queer Ogles, bad eyes. 
 
 Olympic Theatre. Was originally erected by Philip Astley, and opened 
 with horsemanship, September 18, 1806. The theatre was leased in 1813 to 
 the celebrated R, W. Elliston. On Monday, November 12, 1821, a 
 dramatised version of "Tom and Jerry," by Charles Dibdin, was produced : 
 Tom, Mr. Blake ; Jerry, Mr. Oxberry ; Logic, Mr. Vale. Madame Vestris 
 had the management to 1839, then followed Mr. George Wild, Miss Daven- 
 port, and Watts. The theatre was destroyed by fire March, 1849 ; re-built, 
 and opened by Mr. Watts, December 26, 1850. 
 
 Omibuses. The first pair of London omnibuses started from the York- 
 shire Stingo, public-house, in the New Road, to the Bank of England and 
 back, on Saturday, July 4th, 1829. They were constructed to carry twenty- 
 two passengers, all inside, and were drawn by three horses abreast. The fare 
 was one shilling, or sixpence for half the distance, together with the luxury 
 of a newspaper. A Mr. J. Shillibeer was the owner of these carriages, and 
 in order that the introduction might have every chance of success and the 
 full prestige of respectibility, he brought over with him from Paris two 
 youths, both the sons of British naval officers, and these young gentlemen 
 were his " conductors." They were smartly dressed in blue cloth, after the 
 Parisian fashion. Their addressing any foreign passenger in French, and 
 the French style of the afiair, gave rise to an opinion that Mr. Shillibeer was 
 a Frenchman, and that the English were indebted to a foreigner for the im- 
 provement of their vehicular transit, whereas Mr, Shillibeer bad served in the 
 British navy, and was born in Tottenham Court Road ; yet he had after- 
 wards carried on the business of a coach builder both in London and Paris. 
 His speculation was particularly and at once successful, for he insured 
 punctuality and civility ; and the cheapness, cleanliness, and smartness of his 
 omnibuses were in most advantageous contrast with the high charges, dirt, 
 dinginess, and rudeness of the drivers of many of the "short stages" and 
 Hackney coaches, who were loud in their railings against what they were 
 
194 A VOCABULARY 
 
 pleased to describe as a French innovation, and many were the street-papers 
 and ballads issued on the subject both for and against the " Shillibeer's " 
 and " French Hearses." 
 
 The 'Buss, the 'Buss, the Omnibus ! 
 
 That welcomes all without a fuss ; 
 
 And wafts us on with joyous sound, 
 
 Through crowded streets on our busy round, 
 
 Reckless of cold and gloomy skies. 
 
 Or the driving storm as it downward hies : 
 
 Stow'd snug in thee ! stow'd snug in thee ! 
 
 I am where I would wish to be. 
 
 While the rain above and the mud below 
 
 Affects me not where'er I go 
 
 Though the sleet and the slush be ankle deep. 
 What matters ? while I can ride so cheap \ 
 What matters ? &c. 
 
 I love, oh how I love to ride 
 In cozy converse, side by side, 
 With some sweet sly enchanting one, 
 Who lets her little 'larum run 
 Till scarcely can the listener know 
 If that or Time more swiftly go ! 
 Henceforth I'll know the terrible bor6 
 Of " padding the hoof" no more, no more; 
 But back to his seat I so oft have press'd 
 I'll spring, to be wafted the while I rest : 
 For thou, dear 'Bus ! art a home to me, 
 While I am snugly seated in thee. 
 While I am, &c. 
 
 On the Town. A man of the world: a person supposed to have a 
 general knowledge of men and manners. In short Up and Down to 
 everything ! 
 
 Operators. Pickpockets. 
 
 O.P. and P.S. The name given to a tavern in Kussell Court, Drury 
 Lane See Kean's Head This sign was construed several ways according 
 as it suited the different tastes of its visitors. The stage-players took it in 
 its original sense, to denominate the tavern a theatrical house ; and the 
 O.P. and P.S,, according to its technicality upon the stage, thus O.P. 
 Opposite Prompter, and P.S. the Prompt Side. The men of the world placed 
 it in another point of view, "Come and see me to-night,'' said they to a 
 friend, " at the O.P. and P.S., where you will be sure to meet some Old 
 Pals, and hear Prime Singing." And the Bacchanalians hailed the O.P. 
 and P.S. as the harbour containing fine Old Port and Pritrie Sherry." 
 
 O.P. Riot. When the new Co vent Garden Theatre was opened in 
 1809, the charges of admission were increased ; but night after night for 
 three months a throng crowded the pit shouting O.P. {old prices), much 
 damage was done, and the manager was obliged at last to give way. 
 
 Out-and-Outer. A real good one. 
 
 Oxberry, William. An actor of many parts : who held a very re- 
 spectable position at various metropolitan theatres and was a friend and 
 contemporary with Pierce Egan, W. T. IMoncrieff, Leman Rede, Tom 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 1 95 
 
 ' Hudson and Beuler the funny John Reeve a great bcdy of talent on or 
 off the boards. Boh Keeley the muUum in parvo, and other choice spirits 
 of the day, who frequently paid a visit to the coffee-room at the Craven's 
 Head, Drury Lane, when ''JBilli/" Oxherry that comical wight, acted 
 the part of Boniface, to hear him tell his tales, and relate his theatrical and 
 other adventures he had met with in playing " The Five F's,'^ viz., the 
 Printer, Poet, Publisher, Publican, and Player. (1784-1824.) 
 
 P. 
 
 Pad. The highway, or a robber thereon ; also a bed. Footpads, foot 
 robbers. To go out upon the pad, to go out in order to commit a robbery. 
 To fad the hoof, to walk. Fadding-ken, a tramp's lodging-house. 
 
 Paddington Fair Day. An execution day ; Tyburn being in the 
 parish or neighbourhood of Paddington. To dance the Faddington frisk, 
 to be hanged. 
 
 Pal. A companion, one who generally accompanies another, or who 
 commit robberies together. 
 
 Parker. To part or pay money. 
 
 Patter. To speak. Patterer, a noisy talkative street hawker of songs, 
 last dying speeches, &c. 
 
 Patter- Flash. To talk flash, or the language of thieves. 
 
 Paulo, Signer. Comedian and Clown the original Billy Waters in the 
 Adelphl Version of "Tom and Jerry," died July 27, 1835, aged 48, 
 
 Pave. The town. A nymph of the pave, a prostitute. 
 
 Pea-Green Hayne Mr. He was nicknamed '' Fea-green^' from his 
 folly in reference to Miss Maria Foote, afterwards the Countess of Harrington. 
 It will be remembered that that beautiful and accomplished lady brought an 
 action against Hayne for breach of promise of marriage, and recovered 3000?. 
 damages ; but Hayne was not green upon that account ; it was an affair 
 which the shrewdest man of fashion might have fallen into. If greenness 
 existed at all in Hayne on that question, it laid in not marrying her. Fate, 
 however, designed for the lady a better match. The eccentric Lord 
 Harrington, though a wild, sporting, boxing spirit, as Lord Petersham, was, 
 as the Earl, one of the most refined gentlemen that ever added grace to a 
 coronet ; and it might be fairly said that his Lordship did so. Mr Hayne 
 was a man with a mind well stored ; he had experience to aid him. In his 
 association with Ned Baldwin, alias White-headed Bob, the pugilist, whom 
 he trained and backed, and other fast celebrities of the day, he learnt much, 
 though he paid dearly for it. 
 
 Peck. To eat. Feck and Booze, victuals and drink. Fechish, hungry. 
 Feck-alley, the throat. 
 
 Peel. To strip, to undress ; allusion to the taking off of the coat or rind 
 of an orange. 
 
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196 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Peepers. Eyes. Single peeper, a one eyed man. 
 
 Pewter. Money, from the close alliance of much of our so-called silver. 
 To stump the pewter, to pay money. 
 
 Pierce Egan. Author of ** Tom and Jerry," died August 3, 1849, 
 aged 77. 
 
 Pig and Tinder-box. A jocular term for the sign of the Elephant and Castle. 
 
 Pigs. Thief-takers, formerly applied to a Bow Street Officer. 
 
 Pigeons. Young beginners, or novices, persons very necessary to be 
 plucked. Also companions of the right sort birds of a feather. 
 
 Pilot. A watchman. 
 
 Pimple. The head. 
 
 Pinks. Dashing fellows. Pinks of the fashion. 
 
 Pipkin. The head. To crack a pipkin, to break a head. 
 
 Pippen. A good fellow. 
 
 Plum. He is worth a plum is said of a man possessed of 100,000, 
 and of him who has only realized 50,000, he's got but " half-a-plum." 
 
 Pockets to Let. When there's no money in them such are best let alone. 
 
 Point Nonplus. Neither money nor credit. 
 
 Police. The London police grew out of the London watch, instituted 
 about 1253 ; the whole system was remodelled by Mr., afterwards Sir Robert 
 Peel, by 10 Geo. IV.. 19th June, and the New Police commenced duty 29th 
 September, 1829. Sir Richard Mayne was appointed Chief Commissioner of 
 the Metropolitan District. The new system was not popular witb the people, 
 nor with those who deemed they had " vested righls," and the constables were 
 considered as a target that every one might fire off their chaff and witticism at 
 with impunity. The terms '' Bobby and Peeler " after Robert Peel, immedi- 
 ately became the cant words, together with " Blue Bottles," " Blue Devils," 
 the " Royal Blues ; or, the Cook's Own." and other opprobious terras. 
 Within a month of the establishing of the New Police viz., on the 14th of 
 October, 1829, one of the members, named John Jones, was charged, at the 
 Hatton Garden Police-station, with stealing a scrag of mutton, from the stall- 
 board of a butcher, named Samuel, in Skinner Street, Soraer's Town. The 
 circumstance having been witnessed by a neighbour, he pursued the police- 
 man, and took him into custody. He had fifteen shillings and sixpence in his 
 pocket. In his defence, he said he was going to take the mutton to show his 
 wife. This was a circumstance that could not be lost sight of by the Seven 
 Dials printers, and several street-papers and ballads were immediately issued 
 on the subject, and continued to find a ready sale for some months ; while 
 *' Who stole the mutton ?" became the by-word. Following is one of the 
 many ballads that appeared : 
 
 The New Policeman, 
 
 And the Somers Town Butcher. 
 Air" Bod and Joan,'" 
 
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 Hollo ! New Police, 
 
 Who in blue coats, strut on. 
 Your fame you wont increase 
 
 By stealing joints of mutton, 
 Who would e'er suppose, _ 
 
 In such handsome rigging, 
 Spick and -span new clothes. 
 
 Men would go a prigging? 
 
 Hollo ! New Police, &c., &c. 
 
 At very little cost 
 
 Jones wished to have a luncheon ; 
 But now the blade has lost 
 
 His uniform and truncheon. 
 Alas ! the worthy soul, 
 
 While the victuals bagging, 
 Tho' a scrag he stole 
 
 Never dreamt of scragging. Hollo ! &c., &c. 
 
 Off he made a'move. 
 
 And muttered in retreating, 
 " D , this will prove 
 
 Very good eating !" 
 With this bit of meat. 
 
 Doubtless quite enraptur'd ; 
 But joy is very fleet. 
 
 And Mr. Jones was captur'd. Hollo ! &c., &c. 
 
 " Oh !" cried Mr. Jones, 
 
 " This is inconvenient ! 
 Curse the mutton bones 
 
 Gentlemen, be lenient. 
 This joint you will remark 
 
 (The tiuth I won't conceal it), 
 I borrowed for a lark 
 
 I never meant to steal it." Hollo ! &c., &c. 
 
 Here's a pretty prig, 
 
 Thus went Somer's Sam on, 
 First my meat to prig. 
 
 And then to pitch his gammon. 
 Borrow'd ! blow me tight. 
 
 Seeing is believing ; 
 I loves the thing vot's right. 
 
 And always hated thieving. Hollo ! &c., &c. 
 
 Peel's new plan, I say. 
 
 Ought to be rejected, 
 If this here's the way 
 
 We're to be protected. 
 These coves parade the street 
 
 In dashing dark blue habit ; 
 But when they eye our meat, 
 
 'Tis ten to one they grab it. Hollo ! &c., &c. 
 
 'Twas droll to hear the chafl 
 
 When they were embodied ; 
 Now it makes me laugh 
 
 To see so many quodded. 
 Thieves may feel secure, 
 
 Whate'er the hour or weather, 
 For Sam is very sure 
 
 They are all rogues together. Hollo &c. , &c. 
 
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 The City of London successfully rejected the introduction of the New 
 Police within their territories. '' 'Ihey worn't a going to hav' no new French 
 Police Spy system in their ancient and honourable City," said Alderman 
 Cute-Grub-Bub-Turtle-and-Soup, "not if ve knows it." Therefore, no one 
 will be surprised at frequently rea'ling in the newspapers of the period 
 paragraphs like the following : 
 
 THE EFFECTS OF THE NEW POLICE. 
 
 At the Guildhall, on Monday, October 12th, 1829, after Sir Peter Laurie had admonished 
 and discharged a disorderly woman, who had been accused of being noisy in the street, he 
 asked her accuser, a watchman, named Livingstone, where his beat was ? The watchman 
 said it was from St. Dunstan's Church to Temple Bar. Do you find any increase of bad 
 characters on your beat? Watchman (smilingly) : Yes, I believe I do ; the New Policemen 
 drives 'em into the City, Sir Peter : Then you should drive them back again ; it would be 
 better than taking them up. Watchman ; When there was a quarrel among them the other 
 night, a policeman came up and drove them through the Bar, saying, " Ye shan't stand 
 here ; go into the City with your rows." Sir Peter Laurie said that he had heard that a 
 police magistrate had directed the policemen to drive all bad characters into the City. If 
 there was any truth in this, it was an imprudent an improper observation. He desired 
 the watchman present to drive all the bad characters out of the City. The thing must be 
 put down. Subsequently, some vagrants were brought up, and Sir Peter told them to 
 drive them out of the City instead of apprehending them in future. " We can play at 
 tennis-ball," said the Alderman, in an under tone. 
 
 *' Who Stole the Mutton P" together with many other words and phrases 
 in reference to the supposed partiality of the police to The Cook ! The 
 Kitchen!! and The Cold Mutton! ! ! have clung to the service from the 
 day of its formation to the present time, while comic writers of all degrees, 
 in farces, burlesques, songs, and pantomimes, have never failed to make 
 capital out of the New Police, Peel's Baw-Lobsters, Peeler's, Blue 
 Bottles, &o., &c. 
 
 Polito's Beasts. Polito, the Italian successor to Pidcock's Zoological 
 Collection, and very famous in his day. Attracted many thousands of 
 spectators every year at Bartholomew Fair. 
 
 Pony. Money. To post the pony, to pay down the money, also the sum 
 of twenty-five pounds. 
 
 Poundage Cove. A fellow who receives poundage for procuring a 
 customer for damaged goods also a puffer at auction sales. 
 
 Prads. Horses. The swell flashes a fine pair of horses. 
 
 Press -Gang. Reporters, better known, perhaps, as gentlemen connected 
 with the Press ! 
 
 Prigs. Pickpockets, and snappers-up of unconsidered trifles in general 
 from a needle to an anchor ! 
 
 Prime Twig. In high condition. 
 
 Pudding Sleeves. A parson. 
 
 Pull Out. To come it strong. 
 
 Punch. From the Indian word punj (five) ; so called from its five in- 
 gredients, viz., spirit, water, lemon, sugar and spice. It was introduced into 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 1 99 
 
 England from Spain, where it is called ponche. It is said to be a great 
 " contradiction," because it is composed of spirits to make it strong, and 
 water to make it weak, of lemon juice to make it sour, and sugar to make it 
 sweet. 
 
 Pupil's-straits. School tuition. 
 
 Q. 
 
 Quean. A slut, or worthless woman, a strumpet. 
 Queer. Bad. To Queer, to puzzle, or confound. 
 Quid. A guinea, rather a scarce article now. 
 
 Qui-tam. A X species of lawyer, whose dealings are seldom or never 
 on the 
 
 Quiz. A strange looking fellow, an odd dog. Oxford. 
 
 Quod. Newgate, or any other prison. 
 
 Rag. Bank notes, money in general. The cove has no Rag ; the fellow 
 has no money. Rag -carrier, an ensign. 
 Rainbow. A tailor's pattern book. 
 Rain Napper. An umbrella. 
 
 Randall, Jack. Jack Randall, the Nonpareil of the ring, died at his 
 house, the Hole-in-the-Wall, Chancery Lane, March 12th, 1828, aged 34. 
 Jack was an Anglo-Irishman, and first drew his breath in tho Hibernian 
 colony of St. Giles. He was the hero of sixteen prize battles, and left the 
 ring undefeated. At this period it was considered he had received noteless 
 than 1,200 by his good fortune, but " easy got, easy gone" as fast as it 
 was got it was spent, uutil prudence suggested the expediency of laying the 
 foundation of something substantial for his family, and he accordingly) closed 
 his bargain for the Hole-in-the-Wall, under the patronage of General 
 Barton, his friends giving him a pipe of wine, instead of a piece of p^ate, to 
 commence operations. From henceforth he pursued the business of a publican, 
 and was highly respected by all ranks of the Fancy. Tom Moore, the Irish 
 poet, was a frequenter of his house, and it was there that he picked up most 
 of bis material for his "Tom Cribb's Memorial to Congress," &c. The 
 liberality of his friends, however, added to his own predilection for daffey, 
 gradually paved the way to the " break-up" of his constitution, and for the 
 last few months of his life he was but the shadow of his former self. 
 
 Alas ! poor Jack lies on his back, 
 
 As flat as any flounder : 
 Although he died of a bad inside, 
 
 No heart was ever sounder. 
 
 The Hole-in-the-Wall was once his stall, 
 His crib the Fancy name it : 
 
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 A hole hi the groiind he now lias found, 
 And no one else will claim it. 
 
 But too much lush man's strength will crush, 
 
 And so found poor Jack Randall : 
 His fame once bright as morning light, 
 
 Now's out, MkQ/arthing candle. 
 
 Rap. Money, indifferent of what coin. 
 
 Rattler. A Hackney coach. Rattler and Prad, a coach and horses. 
 Battling-cove, a coachman. 
 
 Reader. A pocket book. 
 
 Ready. Money not always ready. 
 
 Red Tape. Brandy. 
 
 Reeve, John. Glorious Jack ! Comedian, died .January 24, 1838, aged 39. 
 
 Regular. In proper course. Regulars, the usual share of the booty. 
 
 Rent. Money. Nap the rent, receive money. 
 
 Rhino. Money. May there always be plenty rhino betwixt the chaps that you 
 and I know. 
 
 Rig- Out, A suit of clothes. 
 
 Right and Fly. Complete. 
 
 River Tick. Tradesmen's books. 
 
 Rolled-up. Put in a sponging-house. 
 
 Roses, Pinks and Tulips. Nobility. 
 
 Rosy Gills. One with a sanguine or fresh-coloured countenance. 
 
 Row. A street broil. 
 
 Rumbler. A Hackney coach. 
 
 Rum One. A knowing one. 
 
 Rum Peck. Good grub. 
 
 Rum Slim. Mixed wine or liquor, Kum Punch. 
 
 Russell, Samuel. Otherwise "Jerry Sneak Russell," from the very 
 admirable manner in which he played the character of the henpecked cockney 
 lout in Foote's farce of "The Mayor of Garratt." Mr. Russell was for 
 some years manager of the Theatre Royal, Brighton, where he produced 
 "Tom and Jerry" in 1822. After a long life of toil and trouble as a 
 manager, actor, and the father of a large family, a charitable benefit was 
 got up for him at the Haymarket Theatre, July IgX, 1841, when " Macbeth" 
 was performed, with Charles Kean as Macbeth; Mr. S. Phelps, Macduff; 
 Lady Macbeth, Miss Ellen Tree. After which Mr. Russell spoke an address 
 thanking hie kind friends and patrons for their support and patronage ; ex- 
 plaining that he deemed it necessary to address them before his final 
 appearance on the stage, least he should not have the nerve power to do so 
 afterwards. Then followed The Mayok op Garratt. Jerry Sneak (for the 
 last time), Mr. Russell; Major Sturgeon, Mr. Robert Strickland. Unfortu- 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 nately the money realized by the Benefit, and the private subscription list, 
 was injudiciously invested in a very risky security ; and a year or two after- 
 wards the house of business failing the whole of it was irretrievably lost. 
 Mr. Russell died at his daughter's residence, Gravesend, February 25, 1845; 
 aged 79. 
 
 S. 
 
 Sadler's Wells. The oldest theatre in London, and named in part from 
 a mineral spring, which was superstitiously dispensed by the monks of the 
 Priory of St. John of Jerusalem, from an early date. In the reign of 
 Charles II. a Mr. Sadler, built here a music-house, and in 1683, re-dis- 
 covered while digging gravel for his garden the Soly Well o? "excellent 
 steel water " which in 1 684 was visited and drunk by hundreds of persons of 
 every degree in their morning's walk. In 1765, Mr. Rosoman converted 
 Sadler's Wells garden into a theatre. Mr. King, of Drury Lane Theatre, 
 was long a partner and stage-manager, and Charles Dibdin and his sons 
 Thomas and Charles were proprietors. Grimaldi, father, son and grandson, 
 were famous clowns. The season of 1803 is memorable for the appearance 
 of the celebrated Italian traveller Signer Benzoni, as the Patagonian Samson, 
 in which character he performed prodigious feats of strength. Wine was 
 sold and drunk on the premises until 1807, under the old regulation, "for 
 an additional sixpence, every spectator was allowed a pint of either port, 
 Lisbon, mountain, or punch." On the 15th of October, 1807, twenty three 
 persons, male and female, were killed, and many dangerously injured by 
 reason of a false alarm of ' ' Fire ! " New River water was introduced in a 
 tank under the stage, and plays were written and arranged so as to display 
 "Real Water" in some of the scenes, and the place advertised as the 
 Aquatic Theatre. Sadler's Wells. In some cases the "good young 
 man " and rightful heir to the estate, was basely and unmercifully hurled 
 from some rock-work into the angry and surging billows below ; by the 
 hired myrmidons of the " Cruel Squire " of the Castle : then it was that the 
 real dog would plunge into the real water, and rescue the real Count De 
 
 Montfordiano from perdition. At other times the Lord of "the 
 
 star-breasted villain," was set upon by the highly virtuous villagers, for 
 having disgraced the "Village-born Beauty," who chased him in and out, 
 and all round about the huge mountain-pass which overhung the " Perilous 
 Pool," until his noble Lordship! was captured, and then hurled into the 
 "depths below," and while his dummy \ body was descending, it was shot 
 in two places, by Robin the Ploughman and Virtuous Villager "under 
 whose calf-skin waistcoat beat a heart truer than all the Lords, Dukes and 
 Squires in wide England and Foreign parts.'' Pierce Egan's own version of 
 "Tom and Jerrv" the "Author's Piece" was performed for the first 
 lime on Monday, April 8, 1822 ; ToM, Mr. Elliott : Jerry, Mr. Keeley ; 
 Logic, Mr. Vale. But the more honourable distinction of Sadler's Wells 
 Theatre is the admirable representation of Elizabethan plays under the able 
 management of Mrs. Warner and Messrs. Phelps and Greenwood, by whom 
 it was made " the popular retreat of the regular drama" 1844-59 and 1861. 
 
202 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Sam ro Stand Sam. To pay for the whole of the reckoning. Sammy is 
 he who is fool enough to do it. 
 
 Sanders, ^ohn.'' Old Jack of the Adelphi'*&nd original Black Sal, 
 died December 9, 1865, aged 66. 
 
 Saving one's Bacon. Taking care of one's eelf. 
 
 Schneider. A tailor. Scholars will perceive this *' cognomen is german 
 to the matter." 
 
 Scamp. A street-walking vagabond of the lowest order. 
 
 Scarce. Non est inventus. 
 
 Scout. A watchman. 
 
 Scran. Food in general. 
 
 Screen. A bank-note. 
 
 Screw. A turnkey. 
 
 Screw Loose. Something wrong. 
 
 Seven Dials Bard. There is a pleasure in poetic pains, 
 Which only Poets know. 
 *' Yonder, sir, is Mr. Goosequill, one of the * Seven Bards of the Seven 
 Dials,' a clever man, who came to town with half-a-crown in his pocket, and 
 his tragedy, called the ' Mines of Peru,' by which he of course expected to 
 make his fortune. For five years he danced attendance on the manager, in 
 order to hear tidings of its being ' cast,' and put into rehearsal, and four 
 years more in trying to get it back again. During the process he was 
 groaned, laughed, whistled, guyed, and nearly kicked out of the secretary's 
 room, who swore which well he might do, considering the exhausted 
 treasury of the concern that he knew nothing about, or ever heard of the 
 'Mines of Peru.' At last Mr. Goosequill, being shown into the manager's 
 kitchen, to wait till he was at leisure, had the singular pleasure of seeing 
 two acts of the ' Mines of Peru ' daintily fastened round a savory capon on 
 the spit, to preserve it from the scorching influence of the fire. 
 
 " ' This was foul treatment,' I observed, and I ventured to ask how he 
 had subsisted during the meanwhile ? ' Why he first made an agreement 
 with a printer of Ballads, Last Dying Speeches and Confessions, &c., living 
 in the Seven Dials, who finding his inclinations led to poetry, expressed his 
 satisfaction, telling him that one of his poets had lost his senses, and was 
 confined in Bedlam, and another was dazed with drinking drams. An agree- 
 ment was made, and he earned five shillings and two-pence-three-farthings 
 per week as his share of this speculation with the muses. But his profits 
 were not always certain. He had often the pleasure of dining with Duke 
 Humphrey, and for this reason he turned his thoughts to prose ; and in this 
 walk he was eminently successful, for during a week of gloomy weather he 
 published an apparition, on the substance of which he subsisted very com- 
 fortably for a month. He often makes a good meal upon a monster. A rape 
 has often afforded him great satisfaction, but a murder an out-and-out 
 murder if well timed, is board, lodging, and washing, with a feast of 
 nectared sweets for many a day.' " 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 203 
 
 Shaking the Shallow. Tossing in a hat. Three or more coins are 
 shaken together in the hat, then cast out on the table, most heads or most 
 tails being the winner or loser, according to the calling of the players. 
 
 Sharps. Persons ready to take you in on all occasions. 
 
 Shell Out. Subscribe, or club their pence together. 
 
 Shirk. To skulk or get off. 
 
 Shove in the Mouth. A glass of gin. 
 
 Shoulder Knot. A man-trap or bailiff. 
 
 Six and Eight-pence. A lawyer of the first order of Sharks, whose 
 whole object in commencing an action is to make a *' bill of costs." 
 
 Sketch-Room. The in Corinthian House which was principally 
 dedicated to the productions of the late George Morland, Jerry was 
 rather more if not quite at home, almost skipping with rapture as his eye 
 ran over the subjects of that unrivalled genius of the pencil. Nature was 
 seen so strongly at every touch that Jerry nearly fancied himself again at 
 Hawthorn Hall, looking at his dogs, pigs, and horses. 
 
 "It was the opinion of Corinthian Tom, in his remarks to Jerry, when 
 the latter first entered this apartment, that if Morland had only painted 
 half the number of subjects which are now before the public, their value 
 might have been enhanced twice as much ; and finished pictures, instead of 
 sketches, most likely would have been the result. This was the reason Tom 
 assigned to Jerry for having it called the Sketch-Room. ' Nine times out 
 of ten,' said Tom, * dull matter-of-fact calculation is not allied with genius.' 
 Money, to George Morland, was a colour that he did not paint with ; and, 
 therefore, respecting its valice, he seemed to know nothing. Emharrassment 
 and the Catchpoles first drew up the curtain and showed him the iron bars 
 which stopped his thoughtless career. They also explained to him, in the 
 most feeling manner, the uses of a strong lock. They likewise pointed out to 
 George the difference in his pro <ipects, not in an artist-like manner to his 
 'mind's eye,' but in a clear distinct way of business, that twenty shillings 
 make a Pound. For the moment, he keenly felt the disgusting cramped 
 situation of Carey Street,* which compelled him to peep at his objects, 
 through the rails of his apartment : for the moment, also, he felt the immedi- 
 ate necessity of procuring the gold talismanic key to give him once more 
 liberty, ae:ain to wander amidst the beauties of nature : it was then that 
 Morland painted for money : it was then that Genius was in fetters : it was 
 then that rapid exertions got the better of his taste. * The sooner you paint 
 me a picture, Mb. Morland,' said the leary Bum-trap, 'the sooner the 
 door will be open to you. Freedom is in view, and I'll discharge your 
 debt.' No skilful angler ever threw his line into v/aters with more coaxing 
 bait to hook the poor fish, than Mr. Screw ' tried it on ' with his prisoner. It 
 was plausible : it was better, it gave no trouble to his acquaintance : it also 
 prevented shyness or Eefusal from his friends. The look-up-house, by such 
 means lost its terror. Employment was found for the mind and pencil of 
 
 * Carey Street, and its immediate neighbourhood, abounded in spunging-houses. 
 
204 A VOCABULARY 
 
 Morland. He experienced no shiverings of the body -no {everish. parched-up 
 tongue, waiting with the most anxious suspense for the return of the mes- 
 senger to bring the No, which ultimately sent him to jail, or the delightful 
 Yes, that set the prisoner once more at liberty. Ou the contrary, George 
 was quite at home. He did as his inclinations prompted him. Jolly fellows 
 called on him in abundance ; and the soug and the glass went round with the 
 freedom of a tavern. All his wants were supplied, and the misery of a 
 spunging-house was not seen in Moeland's apartments. In fact, he was 
 better attended than when out of it. From the top screw to the stamper 
 cleaner, all of them felt an interest in waiting upon the * Great Genius,' as 
 he was termed, in order to take a sly peep at his paintings. Here George 
 set no price to his pictures, but when he was tired of his companions, and his 
 confined situation, he then industriously, and in a short time, painted himself 
 out of the lock-up house. Lumbering him, never afterwards gave Morland 
 any horrors : and, whenever he was in trouble, the same kind of judgment 
 was repeated, time and often, till Mr. Screw had realized a tolerable collection 
 of valuable paintings. This officer was rather fond of paintings himself ; but 
 when any gentleman took a fancy to purchase any of them, Mr. Screw never 
 betrayed a want of knowledge of their value by ihe prices he affixed to them. 
 Morland died at the premature age of 41, in October 29, 1804 dissipated 
 habits proved his quietus.'^ 
 
 Slang. St. Giles's Greek a conversational expression of an irregular, 
 more or less vulgar, type, familiar to and in vogue among a certain class. 
 
 Slavey. Servants of all work, in allusion to their laborious employment 
 and hard work. 
 
 Slipped Cover. Got away. 
 
 Sluice. To drink. Sluice your whistle, wet your throat. 
 Sly. Contraband. On the sly, concealed, unlawful. 
 Smart Blunt. Forfeit money. 
 
 Smash your Countenance. To give a thump on the face. 
 Smell a Rat. To suspect or discover any concealed thing, a la Hamlet. 
 Vide Old Polonius behind the arras ; " A rat, a rat ; dead, for a ducat, dead." 
 Smeller. The nose. A smeller, a blow on the nose. 
 Smokey. Suspicious. 
 Sneezer. The Conk or nose. 
 Snicker. A small tumbler. 
 
 Snip. Mr. Snip a tailor. Come in, taylor, here you may warm your goose. 
 Macbeth. 
 Snowball. A Negro, or chimney sweeper. 
 
 Soho Bazaar, The. The first of its kind in England, was established 
 by John Trotter, Esq., to whose family it still belongs. The building covers 
 a space of 300 feet by IPO, and extends from the Square to Dean Street on 
 the one hand, and to Oxford Street on the other. The bazaar occupies two 
 floors, and has counter accommodation for upwards of 160 tenants. The two 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 205 
 
 principal rooms in the building are about ninety feet long, and in them the 
 visitor may find almost every trade represented. One large roora is set apart 
 for the sale of books, another for furniture, and another for birds, cages, &c. ; 
 and at one end of the latter room is a large recess, occupied with a rustic 
 aviary, through which runs a stream of water. Connected with the bazaar 
 are offices for the registration of governesses and the hire of servants, &c. ; 
 and the scene that here presents itself during business hours is one well 
 worthy of a visit. The bazaar has been frequently patronised by royalty. 
 The Soho Bazaar. 
 
 Ladies in furs, and gemmen in spurs, 
 
 Who lollop and lounge about all day : 
 The Bazaar in Soho is completely the go 
 Walk into the shop of Grimaldi ! 
 
 Come from afar, here's the Bazaar ! 
 
 But if you won't deal with us, stay where you are. 
 
 Here's rouge to give grace to an old woman's face, 
 
 Trowsers of check for a sailor ; 
 Here's a cold ice, if you pay for it twice, 
 And here's a hot goose for a tailor. 
 Soho Bazaar, come from afar : 
 Sing ri fal de riddle, and tal de ral la. 
 
 Here's a cock'd hat, or an opera flat 
 
 Here's a broad brim for a Quaker ; 
 Here's a white wig for a Chancery prig. 
 
 And here's a light weight for a baker. 
 Soho Bazaar, &c. 
 
 A fringed parasol, or a toad-in-the-hole. 
 
 A box of japan to hold backy ; 
 Here's a relief for a widow in grief 
 
 A quartern of Hodge's jacky. 
 
 Soho Bazaar, &c. 
 Here, long enough, is a lottery puff 
 
 (I was half-drunk when it caught me ) ; 
 It promised, my eyes ! what a capital prize : 
 
 And here's all the rhino it brought me. 
 Soho Bazaar, &c. 
 
 " Put it down to tbe bill," is the fountain of ill 
 
 This has the shopkeepers undone ; 
 Bazaars never trust so down with your dust, 
 
 And help us to diddle all London. 
 
 Soho Bazaar, &c. 
 
 Something Short. A drop of summat short. A glass of spirits, neat, 
 unmixed straight ! 
 
 Some Tune. A large amount. 
 
 Spavined. Damaged, injured. 
 
 Speeling. Gambling generally. 
 
 Spellken. A playhouse : Lord Byron in his Don, Juan, Canto xi., stanza 
 19, uses the word in that sense, and then by way of a foot note, adds 
 The advance of science and of language has rendered it unnecessary to translate the 
 above good and true English, spoken in its original purity by the select nobility and their 
 patrons. The following is a stanza of a song which was very popular, at least m my early 
 days : 
 
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 On the high toby-spice flash the muzzle, 
 
 In spite of each gallows old scout : 
 If you at the spellken can't hustle, 
 
 You'll be hobbled in making a clout. 
 
 Then your Blowing will wax gallows haughty 
 
 When she hears of your scaly mistake, 
 She'll surely turn snitch for the forty, 
 
 That her Jack may be regular weight. 
 
 If there be any gem'men so ignorant as to require a translation, I refer him to my old 
 friend and corporeal pastor and master, John Jackson, Esq., Professor of Pugilism ; who, 
 I trust, still retains the strength and symmetry of his model of a form, together with his 
 good humour, and athletic as well as mental accomplishments. 
 
 Spike Hotel. The King's Bench, the Fleet, or any other prison. 
 
 Spree. A bit of fun. 
 
 Stand. To treat. Stand the nonsense, to pay the reckoning, very great 
 nonsense when there's no occasion for it. Stand Sammy, to pay for other 
 people. 
 
 Stand Still. A table. 
 
 Stark Naked. Pure gin, neat without water. 
 
 Staunch. Bang up to the neck, the thing ! 
 
 Steamer. A pipe. A swell steamer, a long pipe Churchwarden. 
 
 Stiffener. A letter. 
 
 Straw Chipper. A straw bonnet maker. 
 
 St. Giles' Greek. Cant language. See Cant. 
 
 Street Solicitors. Mendicity Societies' clients, a class of beings that, 
 as before mentioned. Bodkin makes it a point to take care of, in other words 
 beggars. 
 
 String of Onions. Costermongers, and others of the lower class. 
 
 Stringer. A mace cove, or line man, in plain English a cheat. 
 
 Stumpy. Mouey . 
 
 Stunning Joe Banks. Who was in all that's ^sA, " bang-up to the 
 knocker," and for many years a very popular and much respected London 
 character. He kept a renowned lush-erib called the " Hare and Hounds," 
 formerly the "Beggar in the Bush ;" in No. 1, Buckeridge -Street, within 
 the classic region the " Holy Land,^' or more frequently termed the Rookery 
 in the heart of St. Giles'. Joe Banks, " mine host " of this boosing-ken ; 
 was a civil, rough, good natured, and very elaborate specimen of the genus 
 homo, possessing a flow of spirits as extensive as his person. Good nature 
 and conviviality were his leading characteristics, although his regular 
 customers were composed of the veriest cadgers both male and female. The 
 girls without shoes or stockings, clad in rags and jags. The male cadgers 
 seldom or never used a comb or a pocket handkerchief : 
 
 No small tooth-trdp their locks disposes 
 No 'kerchiefs white attack their noses. 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 207 
 
 It was the fashion of the day for all the lively spirits jlash kiddies and 
 country cousins curious in such matters to visit Stunning Joe Banks' " City 
 OF THB Cadgers " on such occasions, the persons and property of all were 
 sacred while under his roof, and escorted through the intricacies of the 
 " Rookery," by Joe himself or in his temporary absence by a well and 
 truly trusted aide-de-camp ! in order that they might not be in any way 
 molested after leaving his house. 
 
 In conclusion we may add that ' ' Stunning Joe Banks's " drum was the 
 resort of all classps, from the aristocratic marquis especially he, who before 
 he mizzled, hailed from Waterford ! to the downy vagabond, whose way of 
 living was a puzzle to himself. 
 
 Sufferer. A tailor or creditor. 
 
 Suspicion of Debt. Owing two or three thousand pounds. 
 
 Swag Money, from its appetency to make its possessor swagger. Bag 
 the Swag, to collect money. 
 
 Swaddles. Soldiers. 
 Swallow-tail. A dress, or tail coat. 
 Swell. A dashing buck. 
 Swill Tub. A drunkard, a sot. 
 Syntax. A schoolmaster. 
 
 T. 
 
 Tag, Rag and Bobtail. Extremes of low life. 
 
 Tape. Spirits white and red. 
 
 Tartar. A sour one, a shrewish woman, a scolding wife. 
 
 Tattersall in the Rostrum. " Gentlemen, what can you hesitate 
 about ? Only look at her ! She is one of the most beautiful creatures that 
 I have ever had the honour of submitting to your notice ! So gentle in her 
 paces ; indeed, so safe a goer, that a child might ride her. Her pedigree is 
 excellent she is thorough-bred from her ear to her hoof; and the Herald's 
 College could not produce a more sound and satisfactory one she comes from 
 a good house, I pledge, my word, gentlemen. My Lord Duke, will you allow 
 me to say 250 for your Grace ? She will, notwithstanding the excellence of 
 your Grace's stud, be an ornament to it. She is a picture complete to a 
 shade ; in fact, I could gaze upon her for ever, and always be struck with 
 some new beauty she possesses. Thank you. My Lord Duke, I was certain 
 your Grace would not let such an opportunity pass. There is not a horse- 
 dealer in the kingdom who can show such a fine creature ! She is above 
 competition I may say, she is matchless! The Eegent's Park might be 
 betted to a mole-liill with safety that she has no parallel. Sir Henry, let 
 me call your attention to Cleopatra ! She is like her namesake in the olden 
 times but beautiful without paint ! She is pure Nature, and no vice I 
 
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 Her action, Sir Henry yes, her action I could dilate upon it for a quarter 
 of an hour hut pufing is out of the question you shall judge for yourself. 
 Run her down, John The Graces, I am sure, Sir Harry, were they to 
 behold her movements, would be out of temper with her captivating excel- 
 lence ! Taglioni, I must admit, can perform wonders with her pretty feet, 
 but Cleopatra, my Lord Duke, can distance the whole of them put together ; 
 and positively leave the Opera House with all its talent, in the back ground. 
 In fact, I am deficient in words to display her immense capabilities 300, 
 Going ! 300. Thank you, my Lord Duke, she must be yours. For the last 
 time, going at 310 ; but I will do the handsome thing, I will allow you five 
 minutes to compose your mind I am well aware that such unparalleled 
 beauty is very dazzling therefore, before you lose sight of this handsome 
 creature, I do impress upon you, to remember that the opportunity once lost 
 320 ; Sir Harry, I am obliged to you the world has always acknowledged 
 you as a man of great taste in matters of this kind ; and without flattery, 
 you have never shown it more than in the present instance according to the 
 poet, ' Beauty ; or. Loveliness, needs not the foreign aid of ornament, 
 but is, when unadorned, adorned the most ! ' Going Cleopatra, my Lord 
 Duke, will be in other hands if your Grace does not make up your mind in 
 your usual princely style of doing things a good bidding will make 
 Cleopatra your own for ever, therefore, now's the time to put on the 
 distancing power, and your Grace will win the race in a canter ! 340, my 
 Lord Duke, I can only express my gratitude to say, that you have done me 
 honour Going! Going!! Going!!! in fact, gentlemen, I am like an 
 artist in this case, I do not like to leave such a delightful picture and I could 
 dwell upon the qualities of Cleopatra to the very echo that applauds again 
 and again ! But most certainly I have given you all a fair chance 
 Cleopatra is on the go are you all silent going for 340, after all, what is 
 that sum for one of the greatest English beauties ever submitted to the in- 
 spection of the public ! 350, thank you. Sir Charles worth your money 
 at any price. I have witnessed your notice of Cleopatra for some time 
 past she will bear looking at, again and again ! Charming Cleopatra ! 
 I am glad to see she has so many suitors for her hand I beg pardon, gentle- 
 men a slip will happen to the best of us her feet I should have said, but 
 nevertheless, I am happy to see she has a host of admirers. I cannot bid 
 myself, or else 1 would * make play' and Cleopatra should become a noble 
 prize 370. Bravo ! my Lord Duke ! for 370 positively, yes, positively, 
 'pon my honour, positively the last time or else the beautiful Cleopatra 
 goes into the keeping of my Lord Duke. You are sure, gentlemen, that you 
 have all done ? Don't blame me, but blame yourselves ! Going once ! 
 Going twice! Going three times Going Gone ! ! ! Cleopatra belongs to 
 the Duke. 'Jerry expressed himself so much pleased with his visit to 
 Tattersall's, that he observed to Logic, during his stay in London he 
 should often frequent it.' 'I delight,' said Hawthorn, 'to be in the com- 
 pany of sportsmen ; and no objects afford me greater satisfaction than the 
 sight of a fine hunter, the view of a high-mettled racer, and the look of a 
 j9^//(?c^ greyhound.' ' I admire them also,' replied the Corinthian; 'and 
 Tattersall's will always prove an agreeable lounge, if no direct purpose 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 209 
 
 call a person thither. If nothing more than Information be acquired, that 
 alone, Jerry, to a man of the world, is valuable at all times. Besides, 
 Tattersall's gives a tone to the sporting world, in the same way that the 
 transactions on the Royal Exchange influence the mercantile part of 
 society. It has likewise its * settling days,' after the great races at New- 
 market, Boncaster, Epsom, Ascot, Scc. I do not know about the hulls and 
 hears ;* but if it has no lame ducks to waddle out, it has sometimes Levanters 
 that will not show for a time, and others that will brush off altogether. But 
 this does not happen very often ; and Tattersall's has its 'goodUBN' as 
 well as the 'Change, and whose 'word,' will be taken for any amount. It 
 has also its Subscription-room, which is extremly convenient for gentlemen 
 and other persons who feel any inclination to become acquainted with the 
 events of the sporting world, at the moderate charge of one guinea a year. 
 Indeed,' continued Tom, 'there is an air of sporting about this place alto- 
 gether ; elegance, cleanliness, and style, being its prominent features. The 
 company, I admit, is a mixture of persons of nearly all ranks in life ; but, 
 nevertheless, it is that sort of mixture which is pleasingly interesting ; there 
 is no inti^nacy or association about it. A man may be well known here ; he 
 may also in his turn know almost everybody that visits Tattersall's ; and 
 yet be quite a stranger to their habits and connections with society. It is no 
 matter who sells or who purchases at this repository. A het stands as good 
 with a Leg, and is thought as much of, as with a Peer, Money being the 
 touchstone of the circumstance. The ' best judge ' respecting sporting 
 events is acknowledged the * best man ' here ; every person being on the 
 ' look out ' to see how he lays his blunt. The Duke and the Farliainentary 
 Orator, if they do not know the properties of a horse, are little more than 
 cyphers ; it is true they may be stared at, if pointed out as great characters, 
 but nothing more. The nod from a stable-keeper is quite as important, if not 
 more so, to the Auctioneer, as the wink of a Right Honourable. Numbers 
 of persons who visit Tattersall's are, or wish to, appear knowing : from 
 which ' self importance they are often most egregiously duped. In short, 
 if you are not as familiar with the odds upon all events as Chitty in quoting 
 precedents show as intimate an acquaintance with the pedigree and speed of 
 race-horses as a GuLLEY and also display as correct a knowledge of the 
 various capabilities of the prize pugilists as a Jackson if Gain is your 
 immediate object, you are ' of no use ' at Tattersall's,' * Yes,' said Logic, 
 with a grin, interrupting ToM ; 'there are to be found here as ma,nj Jlats 
 and sharps as would furnish the score of a musical composer ; and several of 
 these instruments have been so much played upon, and are so wretchedly out 
 of tune, that the most skilful musician in the world cannot restore them to 
 perfect /tar?wowy.' * It is,' resumed the Corinthian, ' an excellent mart for 
 the disposal of carriages, horses, dogs, &c., and many a fine fellow's studh&B 
 been floored by the hammer of Tattersall. There is a capacious Tap at- 
 tached to the premises, for the convenience of servants of gentlemen in at- 
 tendance upon their masters, or for any person who stands in need of 
 refreshment. Tattersall's, for the purposes intended, is the most complete 
 
 * Corinthian ToAf, it appears, was rather in doubt whether bulls or bears were dis- 
 posed of by Mr. Tattersall. 
 
2IO A VOCABULAT^Y 
 
 place in the Metropolis , and if you have any desire to witness * real life ' 
 to observe character a.nd to view the favourite hobbies of mankind, it is the 
 resort of the pinks of the Sw^ells, the tulips of the Goes, the dashing 
 heroes of the military, the fox hunting clericals, sprigs of nobihty, 
 stylish coachmen, smart guards, saucy butchers, natty grooms, 
 tidy helpers, knowing horse-dealers, betting publicans, neat jockeys, 
 sporting men of all descriptions, and the picture is finished by numbers of 
 real gentlemen. It is the tip-top sporting feature in London.' ' It must 
 have been the work of some time,' said Jerry, 'to have formed such a 
 famous connection.' ' Yes,' replied Tom ; ' you are quite right. It is not 
 the work of a day. The name of Tattersall is not only high, but of long 
 standing in the sporting world ; and everything connected with this splendid 
 establishment is conducted in the most gentlemanly manner. The founder of 
 these premises was during his time, viewed as one of the best judges of 
 horse-flesh in the kingdom ; and, as a proof of it, he made hia fortune by a 
 horse called Highflyer.' " 
 
 Tattler. A watch. " Time's a tell tale." 
 
 Teazer of the Catgut. A hardworking fiddler. 
 
 Thames. ^^ He'll never set the Thames onjire,'" i.e.. He will never make 
 any figure in the world. This popular phrase is as to the word " Thames " 
 altogether a misapplication. The temse was a corn sieve which was worked 
 in former times over the receiver of the sifted flour. A hard-working active 
 man would not unfrequently ply the temse so quickly as to set fire to the 
 wooden hoop at the bottom ; but a lazy fellow would never no never set the 
 temse on fire ! The play on the word temse has engendered many stupid 
 imitations as '* He will never set the Mersey or the Humber, &c., on fire," 
 which has no meaning. Dutch, teme ; French, tamis ; Italian, tamiso, 
 a sieve. 
 
 Thigh of Mutton and Smash. A boiled leg of mutton, with turnips 
 and caper sauce, &o. A prominent article among pot-house gamblers. 
 
 Thimble. A watch. 
 
 Third of Daffy. Third part of a quartern of gin. 
 
 Timber Merchant. A dealer in the old-fashioned brimstone matches. 
 
 Tip your Rags a Gallop. To run away. 
 
 Tip. Money. To be in Tip-street, to have plenty of money, *' a consum- 
 mation devoutly to be wished." 
 
 Toddle. To move your pins. 
 
 Toggery. Wearing apparel; from the Roman toffa. 
 
 Tom King. The Jolly Bog " When did Tom King ever fail when the 
 object was to serve a friend and promote mirth?" Zounds! for a quiz, a 
 hoax, a joke, a jest, a song, a dance, a catch, a tale, a race, or a row. Tom 
 Kiug would not turn his back on any man in England. A'n't I the choice 
 spirit of the day, the jolly dog, the roaring boy, the knowing lad, the rare 
 
AND GLOSSARY. 
 
 blood, the prime buck, the rum soul, the funny fellow? Emperor of the 
 Cockonians ! Chairman of the Jacks ! General of the Lumber Troop ! 
 Master of the Mugs ! Chief of the Eccentrics ! Member of Daffy's ! 
 President of the Flounder Club ! Chairman of the Owls ! Chancellor of 
 the Two o'clock Club ! Vice-Chairman of the Hard-up Club ! Captain of 
 the Rag and Famish ! Chairman of the Never Sinks ! Founder of the 
 Snugs ! Member of the Beef-steak Club ! Past Primo of all the 
 Buffaloes Lodges held within the precincts of the City of Lushington ! 
 Noble Grand of the Oddfellows ! Past-Arch of the Druids ! And Vice of 
 half the Freemasons' Lodges in the United Kingdom ! And though last, 
 
 not least, in love, Founder of the 5 {oral Philosophers' Club! Oh, d n ! 
 
 Tom King is the Jolly Dog ! of the day. 
 
 Top of the Tree. The heads of their profession. 
 
 Tooth Picker. An Irish watchman's shillelah. 
 
 Tothill Fields. Situate between Pimlico and the Thames, formerly a 
 great rendezvous for beggars, thieves, &c. 
 
 Tow Street. Being decoyed or persuaded by any person. 
 
 Town Tabby. Dowager of quality. 
 
 Traps. Constables. 
 
 Translator of Soles. A cobbler that can vamp up old shoes to look 
 like new. A prime piece of deception ; and those persons who purchase 
 second-hand shoes soon find it out on a wet day. 
 
 Trotters. The feet. Walk your trotters, to be off. Trotter-cases, shoes. 
 Trotter shakers, dancers. 
 
 Turkey Merchant. A poulterer. 
 
 Turf The. The race course ; the profession of horse racing, which is 
 done on turf or grass. One who lives by the turf, or one on the turf, is one 
 whose chief occupation or means of living is derived from running horses or 
 betting on rJices. AH men are equal on the hirfzxi^ under it. Lord George Bentinck. 
 
 U. 
 
 Umbrella. Otherwise mush, spread, summer cabbage, tcater-planl, 
 gingham, ^c. The first person who used an umbrella in the streets of London 
 was Jonas Hanway, founder of the Magdalene Hospital, who died 1786. 
 
 Uncle. The pawnbroker. See My Ujscle. 
 
 Under a Cloud. In debt and diflSculties, Not able to show out, or 
 come to the front in daylight. 
 
 Undergoing a Three Months' Preparation. The modem "New 
 way to pay old debts," or taking the Benefit of the Act ! Sometimes 
 resorted to by an honest man overwhelmed by the harpies of the law, but 
 more generally in use among swindlers, scamps, blacklegs, rogues, and 
 vagabonds of every description. 
 
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 Under the Rose Sub rosa. Secretly, confidentially. Amongst the 
 ancients the rose was an emblem of silence. 
 Under the Screw. In prison. 
 
 Uneasiness. Trouble. To have the uneasiness, to be vexed, restless. A 
 copy of uneasiness, a copy of a writ. 
 
 Up. Knowledge. To be up, to understand. Up to trap, aware of things. 
 Uphills. False dice that run high. 
 Upper Benjamin. A great coat. 
 Upper Crust. The lions or crack men of the day. 
 Upper Story, or Garret. Figuratively used to signify the head. 
 Upper Ten Thousand. The aristocracy. 
 Uppish. Testy, apt to take ofience, proud, arrogant. 
 Upstarts. Persons lately raised to honours and riches, from mean 
 stations. 
 
 Used Up. Killed ; a military saying, originating from a message sent 
 by the lata General Guise, on the expedition at Carthagena, where he desired 
 the Commander-in-chief to order him some more grenadiers, for those he had 
 were all used up ! 
 
 V. 
 
 Vale, Samuel. Low comedian, died March 24, 1848, aged 51. 
 
 Various Classes of Society. "Now my dear Coz," said Tom, "as 
 we shall soon have to intermix with the ' various classes of society ;' and 
 although it is not absolutely necessary that you should be able to dispute the 
 accuracy of a Greek quotation with a Porson contend with a Mozart upon 
 the fundamental principles of harmony enter into a dissertation on the 
 properties of light and shade with a Reynolds quote precedents with a 
 Speaker of the House of Commons argue law with an Eldon display a 
 knowledge of tactics with a Wellington write jsoe^ry with a Byron relate 
 history with a Gibbon contest grammatical points with a Horne Tooke 
 wit and eloquence with a Canning support the Old English Character with a 
 Wyndham t^flwcig with an Oscar Byrne /mce with an O'Shaunebsy 
 set-to with a Belcher sing with Braham contest the law of nations with a 
 Liverpool erudition with a Johnson philosophy with a Paley the 
 wealth of nations with a Smith astronomy with an Herschel physiognomy 
 with a Lavater equity with a Romilly and so on to the end of the 
 Chapter of Talents in the Metropolis ; although it is not necessary, I again 
 repeat, my dear Coz, that you should be able to rival all the traits of excel- 
 lences possessed by the above characters, yet it is essentially requisite that 
 you should have some knowledge of their respective qualities, and be sen- 
 sibly alive to their immediate value, and the impression they have made on 
 the minds of mankind.' ' Hold, hold ! ' said Jkrry, smiling, and making 
 
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 a low bow at the same time ; ' there is one person among these distinguished 
 men that you have forgot to mention who shall dispute taste with 
 Corinthian Tom ? ' The latter hero gave rather a graceful nod in return for 
 this unexpected compliment, which, it would seem, augured to ToM a kind of 
 budding of the lively genius of his cousin's mind." 
 
 Vauxhall Gardens were sold by auction. 9th September. 1841, for 
 2U,UU0. The last performance took place 2oth July, 1859. The ground 
 has been since sold for building pia-poses. In allusion to the thinness and 
 artist-like manner in which the ham was brought to table. Logic offered to 
 bet Jerry " that it was not cut with a knife, but si oav eel o^ \}\ih. ?i plane : 
 and, if necessary, from its transparent quality, conceived it might answer the 
 purpose of a sky-light!^' Vauxhall Slices! or Ham Shavings! are terms 
 well understood to this day. 
 
 A Vauxhall supper usually consisted of : 
 
 Lilliput chickens boil'd, 
 Bucellas warm from Vauxhall ice ; 
 And hams that flit in airy slice, 
 
 And salads scarcely soil'd. London Mag., Sept., 1824. 
 
 Velvet, The tongue. " To be upon velvet,'^ to have the best of a bet or 
 match. 
 
 Venus. Love ; the Godness of Love ; courtship. My Venus turns out a 
 whelp, i.e., my swans are changed to geese ; my cake is dough. In dice the 
 best cast three sixes was called ' Venus," and the worst three aces 
 was called " Canis." My win-all turns out to be a lose -all ! 
 
 View-Holloa of a fox is *' Tally-ho!" or, as Jemmy Green would have 
 it, ^^ Tally -man!" of a hare, *' Gone away!" but the **Who-hoop" 
 signifies the death of each. 
 
 Viper and File. The biter bit. -^sop says a viper found a file, and 
 tried to bite it, under the supposition that it was good food ; but the file said 
 that its province was to bite others, and not to be bitten. 
 
 Vowel. " To vowel a debt.'* Where the acknowledgment of the debt is 
 expressed by the vowels I.O.U. 
 
 Let old LO.U.'s be forgot, 
 
 And never brought to mind, 
 Let Writs and Judgments be forgot 
 
 And the Bills that I have signed 
 
 W. 
 
 Waifs and Strays. The juvenile homeless poor. "Waifs are goods 
 found but not claimed. Strays are animals that have wandered from their 
 proper enclosures to the grounds of some one not their owner. 
 
 Walking Poulterer. One who steals fowLs, and hawks them from door 
 to door. 
 
 Walking Stationer. A hawker of books, prints and dying-speeches, &c. 
 
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 Walking-up against the Wall. To run up a score, which in alehouses 
 is commonly recorded with chalk on the walls of the bar. 
 
 Wapping Great. Means astonishingly great. Saxon, Wafian, to be 
 astonished. 
 
 Ware Hawk. A.n exclamation used by thieves to inform their con- 
 federates that Some police officers are at hand. 
 
 Warming-pan. A large old fashioned watch. 
 
 Watch, Chain and Seals. A sheep's head and pluck. 
 
 Watchmaker. A stealer of watches he makes them in a crowd ! 
 
 Water Sneaksman. A man who steals from ships or crafts on the river. 
 
 Ways and Means. To raise the supply of ready money for the current 
 expenses of the day. 
 
 Wear the Breeches. To be White Serjeant. 
 
 Weasel. "To catch a weasel asleep." To catch a person nodding ; to 
 find he has not his weather-eye open Nunquam dormio ! 
 
 Weather-Eye. ^- 1 have my weather- eye open.''' I have my wits about 
 me ; I know what I am after : I can see the difference between a clock and a 
 cabbage. 
 
 Wedge. Silver plate, because melted by the receivers of stolen goods 
 into wedges. 
 
 West-End Tailor A. "Corinthian Tom had just ordered his servant 
 to bring him * The Weekly Dispatch,^ to see how sporting matters had been 
 going on in the Metropolis during his absence from town, when Mr. Primefit 
 the West-End Schneider ! Par excellence ! was announced to Mr. 
 Hawthorn to be in waiting to receive his commands. 
 
 "Mr. Primefit, according to the 'counter-talking part of the com- 
 munity,' had done, all his ' dirty work ;' and among the needles otherwise 
 sharps at the West-end of the Town, who must sport a genteel outside, no 
 matter at whose suit, it was observed, between a grin and a pun, that he had 
 not only got rid of all his ' bad habits, ' but had likewise outlived his suffer- 
 ings. It was said of this celebrated * apparel furnisher,' that, if he received 
 the cash for one coat out of three, nothing was the matter ! In his inter- 
 course with people of fashion, the character that ran before him was a per- 
 fectly gentlemanly tradesman. He had one point in viev/ on setting out in life, 
 and he never lost sight of it. To ask his customers for payment was to lose 
 their custom. Though for the first seven years Dickey Primefit was 
 engaged in cutting -up his cloth, he was hurried beyond measure, by those 
 'troublesome customers,' John Doe and Richard Roe, who were continually 
 at his elbow, nudging him to take ' measure of their suits ' in preference to 
 every other person ; his law expenses and ' Mum tip ' that is rhino to 
 silence, or, shut-up the gab of the bum-traps in consequence, were frightful ; 
 yet Dickey braved the fury of the woollen -draper's 'storm ' with the utmost 
 composure. With a placid countenance he never refused credit to any 
 British officer, either in the sea or land service, let the distance or uncer- 
 
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 tainty be what it might. The reference of one gentleman to another was 
 quite sufficient to Mr. Peimefit ; and the garments were made and sent home 
 without further enquiry or delay. Of course, in return, the charges of 
 Dickey were never overhauled ; indeed, what Gentleman would have be- 
 haved so ungentlemanly to a tradesman who was all civility, politeness, and 
 accommodation, from one end of his pattern-card to the other? The business 
 of Mb. Primefit, therefore, became so extensive, that he sent clothes to all 
 parts of the world. In London, no gentleman, who had been once in the 
 books of Dickey, would listen to the name of any other tailor, which 
 rendered Primefit the 'go for a tasty cut, best materials, and first-rate 
 workmanship.' Dickey had a ' soul above buttons,' he had no narrow ideas 
 belonging to him : and he flattered himself that, ultimately, it would all he 
 right. ' No gentleman,'' Mr. Primefit would often assert, when he has been 
 blamed for giving such au extensive loose sort of credit, ' / am convinced^ hut 
 will act as such, sooner or later, towards me ! ' So it proved. Things, at 
 length, took the expected turn. Many long out-standing bills came in. His 
 capital accumulated. His business also increased in so extraordinary a 
 manner that several clerks were necessary to keep it in order, and ensure 
 punctuality. Dickey was almost as true as a clock to his time, in attending 
 to orders. His character for fashion was so emphatic, that numbers of 
 stylish tradesmen, who found it necessary to have a ' bettermost coat ' by 
 them, for ' high days and holidays ' regardless of the charge, employed Mr. 
 Primefit. The sunshine of prosperity was now so complete, that not a 
 single bum-trap had crossed the threshold of Dickey's door, in the way of 
 private business, for many a long day past. In short, Mr. Primefit had 
 realised the climax of his exertions he had measured his way into a carriage. 
 Dickey was principall}? distinguished for the cut of his coats. To Corin- 
 thian Tom he was peculiarly indebted, as a leader of the fashion. It was 
 owing to this circumstance that Mr. Primefit waited in person at Corin- 
 thian House ; indeed, the active use of the scissors and parchment had long 
 been removed from the hands of Dickey, and his principal occupation now 
 consisted of talking over the versatility of fashion to his customers, and 
 giviui^ directions to his men. But the slightest idea that might drop from 
 Corinthian Tom respecting the advantages of dress was what Dickey could 
 not resist, and he, therefore, ordered his carriage immediately to attend upon 
 the rustic Jerry at once. 
 
 " Tom and Jerry, previously to the arrival of the apparel-furnisher, had 
 been discussing the advantages resulting from ?r^ss and address; and the 
 Corinthian had also been pointing out to his Coz not to skim too lightly over 
 BO important a subject, but to peruse with most marked attention that grand 
 living Book of hooks : MAN ! ! ! " 
 
 Whetstone Park. A lane between Holborn and Lincoln's-Inn-Field's. 
 Formerly famed for being the resort of women of the town. 
 
 Whistling Shop. A place in which spirits are sold without a licence. 
 Who that has ever visited a Friend undergoing a three months*' purification 
 in the Fleet or King's Bench, but has been introduced to a Whistling Shop ; 
 and who that has been initiated into its sacred rites, would basely betray his 
 knowledge. No one at all ambitious of bearing the character of the real 
 
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 thing. Neither Mr. Brown nor Marshal Jones would thank any Paul Pry 
 for splitting on this point. Any reader that may not have visited a Whistling 
 Shop, cannot do better than put a little of the bustle in his poke ; call on the 
 first Friend he has in Limbo, and get introduced to one as quickly as possible ; 
 and thus do a double good, furnish himself with a little useful information, 
 and cheer a Pal in distress at the same time. 
 
 Whitechapel. Anything low, mean, or paltry. A Whitechapel portion, 
 a smock, and what nature gave. Whitechapel breed, fat, ragged, and saucy. 
 Whitechapel Beau, one who dresses with a needle and thread, and undresses 
 with a knife. A Whitechapel Brougham, a costermonger's donkey-barrow. 
 
 Wipe. A nose handkerchief. 
 
 Wrench, Benjamin. Comedian ; original Corinthian Tom at the 
 Adelphi, died November 24, 1843, aged 67. 
 
 Wrekin Tavern. In Broad Court, Drury Lane, was much frequented 
 by first-rate theatricals, authors, poets, painters, gentlemen of the press, 
 men of the world, and intelligent persons in general, and was a house of 
 entertainment of no common description, kept at the time by a Mr. 
 Williams, a person connected with literary pursuits. It was to the 
 Wrekin Tavern that Edmund Kean was conveyed on the ever-memorable 
 night of the 24th of March, 1833, when he partly played Othello to his 
 son Charles's lago, at Covent Garden Theatre. And descriued thus by his 
 biographer : 
 
 " After making one or two feeble steps towards his son, and attempting 
 the speech of : 
 
 Villlan, be sure thou prove my love a whore ; 
 Be sure of it ; give me the ocular proof, &c. 
 
 "When his head sunk on his son's shoulder, and the tragedian's acting 
 
 was at an end. He was able to groan out a few words in Charles's ear 
 
 * I am dying speak to them for me;' after which (the audience refusing 
 in kindness, to hear any apology) he was borne from the stage. His son, 
 assisted by other persons, carried him to his dressing-room, and laid him 
 on a sofa. He was as cold as ice ; his pulse was scarcely perceptible ; and 
 he was unconscious of all that was going on around him. In this state he 
 remained some time, when the remedies which were applied having restored 
 him to his senses, he was taken to the ' Wrekn ' Tavern, near the theatre, 
 and Messrs. Carpue and Duchez, the surgeons, were sent for. From the 
 Wrekin Tavern, he was after a week's stay, removed to Eichmond : where 
 he died on the fifteenth day of May, 1833." 
 
 The Wrekin Tavern the Times and the Proprietors underwent many 
 changes from good, bad, and very indifferent ; in fact, the character of 
 house and company was entirely altered 6> temporal mores! Here 
 Johnny Broome, the pugilist, who was born at Birmingham, 1817, and the 
 successful hero of six or seven battles in the P.R., and also the prime mover 
 in "The Great Brighton Card Cheating Case," committed suicide by 
 cutting his throat, May 31, 1855. 
 
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