“Look here, this cow wears boots;
Were it a bull it would be less odd.”
[636] “This is the Cock in Boots. Christ has been crucified, with a crown of thorns on His head. He that does not believe it is as bad as Thomas.”
“At the brave Jackass in Boots,
There is tobacco, brandy, and gingerbread for sale.”
[638] Boswell’s Life of Johnson, vol. iii., p. 261. 1819.
[639] A Trip to Stirbitch Fair, 1703.
[640] Sometimes it is conveyed in an ingenious manner by a watch face without pointers accompanied by the significant words, No Tick.
[641] “To-day for money, to-morrow for nought.”
“When this cock shall crow,
Credit will be given.”