Trifling, insignificant, contemptible.
[84] Pidcock’s Menagerie was one of the best and largest that used to exhibit in Bartholomew and other fairs: the animals being hired from Cross’s famous collection in Exeter ‘Change. At this time (1803) Pidcock was probably dead, as he exhibited in 1769. The show was afterwards known as Polito’s.
[85] Hanging them. A revival of the old Revolutionary cry of ‘À la Lanterne!’
[86] Indicative of Hanover.
[87] The Marquis of Hartington in a speech in the House of Commons, March 17, 1884, said ‘there were now 209,365 volunteers enrolled, of whom 202,478 were efficient.’—Morning Post, March 18, 1884.
Transcriber’s Notes
Punctuation, hyphenation, and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Missing or extraneous accent marks in French text have not been changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected; occasional unbalanced double and single quotation marks were retained.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.