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 *chuk Railway 3 per cent. Obligations; Caleys = Caledonian Railway Ordinary stock; Cashels = Great Southern and Western of Ireland Railway stock; Cats = Atlantic Cable 2nd Preference stock; Chats = London Chatham and Dover Railway stock; Chinas = Eastern Extension Australian and China Telegraph shares; Claras = Caledonian Railway Deferred and Ordinary stock; Coffins = The Funeral Furnishing Company shares; Cottons = Confederate Bonds; Creamjugs = Charkoff-Kremenlsching Railway bonds; Dinahs = Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Ordinary stock; Dogs = Newfoundland Land Company shares; Doras = South Eastern Railway Ordinary "A" stock; Dovers = South Eastern Railway Ordinary stock; Ducks = Aylesbury Dairy Company shares; Floaters = Exchequer bills; Gorgonzola Hall = The House (q.v.); Goschens = The 2-3/4 per cent. Government Stock; Guinness's = Guinness and Company shares; Haddocks = North of Scotland Railway Ordinary stock; Kaffirs = generic for South African Mining shares: whence Kaffir Circus = the South African Market in a state of excitement; Kisses = Hotchkiss Ordinance Company shares; Knackers = Harrison, Barber, and Company shares; Leeds = Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Ordinary stock; Mails = Mexican Railway shares: see Megs; Matches = Bryant and May's shares; Megs = Mexican Railway 1st Preference shares: see Mails; Mets = Metropolitan Railway Co. shares; Middies = Midland Railway Ordinary stock; Monas = The Isle of Man Railway shares; Muttons = Turkish Loans of 1865 and 1873; New Billingsgate = The House (q.v.); New Plates = English Bank of the River Plate shares: see Old Plates; Noras = Great Northern Railway Deferred Ordinary stock; Nuts = Barcelona Tramway shares; Old Plates = London and River Plate Bank shares; Pigtails = Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China shares; Pots = Staffordshire Railway stock; Sarahs = Staffordshire and Lincoln Railway Deferred stock; Sarah's Boots = Sierra Buttes Gold Mining Company shares; Sardines = Royal Sardinian Railway shares; Sewers = East London Railway shares; Silvers = India Rubber, Gutta Percha, and Telegraph Company shares; Sunshades = The Sunhales Extension Buenos Ayres and Resario Railway Company shares; Terrors = Northern Territories Co. shares; Vestas = Railway Investment Company Deferred stock; Virgins = Virginia New Funded Bonds; Whipsticks = Dunaberg and Witepsk Railway shares; Westralians = generic for Western Australian Mining shares. Also see Bear; Bucket-shop; Bull; Cocky; Fiddle; Fourteen-Hundred; Futures; Guttersnipe; Hammer; House; Jam-tart; Kerbstone-broker; Kidney; Lame-duck; Let-up; Load; Long; Omnium; Orchid; Peg; Picker-up; Put; Raid; Rush; Scalp; Scoop; Set-up; Shoot; Short; Shunter; Stag; State; Sweater; Swimming; Tapes; Tapeworm; Ten-up; Tight; Twist; Unload; Waddle; Water; Wash-sale; Wireworm.