Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new ParisBarrère, Albert
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Argot and slang : $b a new French and English dictionary of the cant words, quaint expressions, slang terms and flash phrases used in the high and low life of old and new Paris
Barrère, Albert
French language -- Dictionaries -- English; French language -- Slang -- Dictionaries
I will now tell you what happened the day before I fell for this
stretch and a half. Me and the screwsman went to Charlton. From there
we worked our way to Blackheath. I went in a place and touched for some
wedge which we done for three pounds ten. I went home and wrung myself
(changed clothes), and met some of the mob and got very near drunk.
Next morning I got up about seven, and went home to change my clobber
and put on the old clobber to work with the kipsy. When I got home my
mother asked me if I was not a going to stop to have some breakfast? So
I said, “No, I was in a hurry.” I had promised to meet the screwsman
and did not want to stick him up. We went to Willesden and found a
dead ’un, so I came out and asked my pal to lend me the James and some
twirls, and I went and turned it over. I could not find any wedge. I
found a poge with nineteen shillings in it. I turned everything over,
but could not find anything worth having, so I came out and gave the
tools to my pal and told him. So he said, “Wasn’t there any clobber?”
So I said, “Yes, there’s a cartload.” So he said, “Go and get a kipsy
full of it, and we will guy home.” So I went back, and as I was going
down the garden, the gardener it appears had been put there to watch
the house, so he said, “What do you want here?” So I said, “Where do
you speak to the servants?” So he said, “There is not anyone at home,
they are all out.” So he said, “What do you want with them?” So I said,
“Do you know if they have any bottles to sell, because the servant told
me to call another day?” So he said, “I do not know, you had better
call another time.” So I said, “All right, and good day to him.” I had
hardly got outside when he came rushing out like a man balmy, and said
to me, “You must come back with me.” So I said, “All right. What is the
matter?” So when we got to the door he said, “How did you open this
door?” So I said, “My good fellow, you are mad! how could I open it?”
So he said, “It was not open half-an-hour ago because I tried it.” So I
said, “Is that any reason why I should have opened it?” So he said, “At
any rate you will have to come to the station with me.”
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