[126] Presuming, offensive because presuming.
[127] Acuteness, quick wit.
[128] Quizzical, humorous: "to smoke" one, in the slang of the day, was to quiz or ridicule. See the word in No. XXIX, page 199.
[129] Fell under the charge of.
[130] Genuine.
[131] Shortly, presently.
[132] I.e. the soldiers competing for quarters, the carmen and coachmen for right of way in the narrow streets.
[133] Workmen, mechanics.
[134] To fail, become bankrupt.
[135] Unwarrantably.