=Old Bags.= John Scott, Lord Eldon; so called because he carried home with him in sundry bags the cases pending his judgment (1751-1838). =Old Bona Fide= (2 _syl._), Louis XIV. (1638, 1643-1715). =Old Curiosity Shop= (_The_), a tale by C. Dickens (1840). An old man, having run through his fortune, opened a curiosity shop in order to earn a living, and brought up a granddaughter, named Nell [Trent], 14 years of age. The child was the darling of the old man, but, deluding himself with the hope of making a fortune by gaming, he lost everything, and went forth, with the child, a beggar. Their wanderings and adventures are recounted till they reach a quiet country village, where the old clergyman gives them a cottage to live in. Here Nell soon dies, and the grandfather is found dead upon her grave. The main character, next to Nell, is that of a lad named Kit [Nubbles], employed in the curiosity shop, who adored Nell as “an angel.” This boy gets in the service of Mr. Garland, a genial, benevolent, well-to-do man in the suburbs of London; but Quilp hates the lad, and induces Brass, a solicitor of Bevis Marks, to put a £5 bank-note in the boy’s hat, and then accuse him of theft. Kit is tried, and condemned to transportation, but the villainy being exposed by a girl-of-all-work, nicknamed “The Marchioness,” Kit is liberated and restored to his place, and Quilp drowns himself. =Old Cutty Soames= (1 _syl._), the fairy of the mine. =Old Fox= (_The_), Marshal Soult; so called from his strategic abilities and never-failing resources (1769-1851). =Old Glory=, Sir Francis Burdett; so called by the radicals, because at one time he was their leader. In his later years Sir Francis joined the tories (1770-1844). =Old Grog=, Admiral Edward Vernon; so called from his wearing a grogram coat in foul weather (1684-1757). =Old Harry=, the devil. The Hebrew _seirim_ (“hairy ones”) is translated “devils” in _Lev._ xvii. 7, probably meaning “he-goats.” =Old Hickory.= General Andrew Jackson was so called in 1813. He was first called “Tough,” then “Tough as Hickory,” then “Hickory,” and lastly “Old Hickory.” =Old Humphrey=, the pseudonym of George Mogridge, of London (died 1854).