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 NINTH SERIES.

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Proverbs and Phrases :

Ploughing the sands, iii. 2, 72 ; vi. 134

Policy of pinpricks, iii. 46, 115, 238, 278; x. 372,

412, 518 ; xii. 15, 295 Pour oil upon the waves, ix. 107; troubled

waters, xi. 520; xii. 389 Practical politics, i. 507; vi. 209 Praise is the best diet, x. 392 Print : Out of print, v. 124, 195, 343, 422 Prizes his cupboard, i. 228 Providence on the side of the biggest batallions,

i. 487

Put a spoke in the wheel, vii. 128, 258 Put his clog on his dial, x. 303 Puts nowt up to mean nowt, iii. 485 ; iv. 52, 151,

237 Qui rit vendredi, dimanche pleurera, ii. 344, 436,

513 ; iii. 173, 317

Qui vive ? vii. 245, 336, 438 ; viii. 75 Quite a few, x. 208 ; xi. 33 Quot linguas calles, tot homines vales, vii. 297 "Random of a shot, i. 142, 214 ; ii. 309 Bed rag to a bull or an elephant, xii. 309 Reed painted to look like iron, i. 405 ; ii. 230 Responsible government, ii. 165 Returning thanks, x. 26, 79 Right of onstand, iv. 25 Robin Hood's pennyworths, v. 73 Rock-bottom prices, x. 26, 154 Ratatory calabash, v. 186 Running amuck, ii. 406 Sair saunt for the Orune, ii. 407; iii. 33 Save the face of, vi. 308, 398 Scotus est, piper in naso, iii. 109 Scriptures out of church, xii. 429, 496 Seal of the morning, iv. 129, 175 See how these Christians love one another, v. 107 Seldom comes a better, ii. 135, 266 Sent to Coventry, iv. 264, 335 Shakes : No great shakes, iii. 169, 277, 362, 493 Shot the moon, xii. 107 Sing before breakfast, iii. 173, 317 Sit bodkin, vii. 228, 376 Sitting : He got up in his sitting, i. 224 Sitting on the fence, ix. 84 Sixes and sevens, ix. 427; x. 55, 95 Sky-blue scarlet, xi. 236, 332 Sleep the sleep of the just, xii. 131 Smoking a cobbler, viii. 148, 233, 312 So long, vii. 129, 233, 297 So pleased, i. 188, 315 ; ii. 135 Sooner or later, iii. 229, 475 Soul above buttons, viii. 423 Sow an action, reap a habit, viii. 105 Spheres of influence, xi. 128, 152 Spick and span, vi. 307 Stand the racket, v. 316, 422 Sticks and stones may break my bones, i. 177 Stillborn : To die stillborn, i. 285 ; ii. 50 Straight off, vii. 360 Stream of tendency, ix. 68, 172 Sun drawing water, iv. 205 Sunday hare, v. 46, 291 Sunday side, xi. 128, 296, 338 Swim in golden lard, v. 229

Proverbs and Phrases : Take to stey, iv. 107 Talmudic, vi. 501 Taste of the potato, x. 270, 331 Terrse filius, iii. 207 That immortal lie, xi. 167, 391, 474 The chap as married Hannah, vi. 346, 434 The Dark Ages, vi. 406 The devil to pay, vi. 327 The first crown'd head that enters Lincoln's

walls, xi. 332

The mains more, vi. 229, 315 The old woman is shakkin' her feather poake,

viii. 403, 494

The mill-wheel cannot grind again, iv. 410 They say. What say they ? Let them say, v.

456 ; vi. 53, 175 This will never do, vi. 103 Three acres and a cow, iii. 214 ; viii. 14, 128 Throwing a bonnet over the windmills, v. 268,

421

Tib's Eve, ix. 109, 238, 335 Time immemorial, from and for, i. 246, 329 Time was made for slaves, vii. 109 To rule o'er freemen, should themselves be free,

xi. 273

To the bitter end, vi. 346, 453 To the nines, i. 57, 211, 338 ; x. 387, 456 ; xi.

34, 90

Toad : Soft as a toad, iv. 516 ; v. 54 Toad in a mud wall without money, iii. 348 Too too, ii. 345 Toss or buy for kidney ones, viii. 324, 426 ; ix.

12, 172, 515

Tottenham is turn'd French, xi. 185, 333 Tout lasse tout casse tout passe, x. 314 Trade follows the flag, iii. 208 Travailler pour le Roi de Prusse, xi. 289, 392,

437, 496 ; xii. 34, 111, 270, 370, 455 Tres tois d'or, iii. 48, 1 56 Trunk up, vii. 165

Truth is the daughter of Time, iv. 289, 338, 442 Turn the tables, xii. 128

'Twixt the devil and the deep sea. See Between. Two blades of grass, ix. 47, 112 Two is company and three 's trumpery, ii. 136 Twopence for manners, ix. 129 Twopenny dam, xi. 425 Twopenny-halfpenny dime, vi. 249, 334

Ugly mug, iv. 268, 402 Ulste

Ulster towns, i. 185

Un coup de langue est pire qu'un coup de lance,

xii. 175

Under weigh, vii. 89

Unearned increment, iv. 109, 153, 235, 258 Unspeakable Turk, iii. 68, 177, 235 Up, Guards, and at them ! iv. 497, 543 ; v. 32 Up to Dick, xi. 390

Upwards of, ix. 20, 446, 516 ; x. 38, 138 Vanity Fair, ii. 29 ; iii. 15 Weary Titan, iii. 208, 294, 377 Week-end, ix. 476 What the dickens, viii. 252

What has posterity done for us ? x. 309, 415, 472 Whipping the cat, t x. 205, 298, 455 ; xi. 276, 353