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 254 London. Passengers sometimes slept in it on their own bedding, and made their wills before starting. The writer's own father has made wills for such travellers. Rustring comb. Dressing comb. A Sinking comb. Ruttlin. The sound of phlegm rattling in the bron- chial tubes. Ruxler, or Wroxler. A restless fidgety person, one continually shifting about, as on a seat. Sabby. Soft and wet. Saim^ or Seym. Train oil, fat, grease. Celtic Cor- nish words. Sam^ or Zam. Half-heated. A Sam oven, is one half-hot after bread has been baked in it. ^* Tell the baker to bake the biskeys (biscuits) in the sam oven." Sammy-Dawkin. A thickhead. A Padstow illus- tration of incapacity. " A regular Sammy Dawkin." Sampling. Testing the worth of the ores of a mine. Sample. Soft, pliant. Sampler. A small square of canvas on which girls stitched letters and figures ; one who tests the value of mineral ores. Sampson. A drink of cider, brandy, and a little water, with sugar. M.A.c. Sam-sawderedj or Sam-sodden. Anything ill cooked, and insipid, especially if tepid, or " half hot."