The lean girl said she had »erd on me». The fat girl, seizing the chance afforded her, remarked genteelly that she too had »heard hof me», with emphasis upon the »hof». (P. Kelver 68. 6.) The following sequence of words—with _stress upon the pronoun_—is in high favour with the uncultivated Englishman (Cf. Swed. sa _han_, sa _jag_. etc.): »What’s the good of Africa?» _replies he_. (T. T. T. 159. 18.) »Australia!» _retorts he_; »what would I do there?» (T. T. T. 159. 10.) »A man like that deserves what he gets,» _answers he_. (T. T. T. 169. 9.) »She was a bit of a fool herself,» _adds she_. (T. T. T. 258. 7.) »There’s no wages attached», _continues she_. (T. T. T. 228. 14.) »Go for a soldier», _says I_. (T. T. T. 160. 12.) SLANG Avast! »_Avast!_» (Stage-Land 82. 8.) _A sailor._ _Sailor slang_ = _Hold! Stop!_ The term is much used by landlubbers who desire to get local colour cheap. Little-go »Perhaps you’d get through your _Little-go_ in the course of the next few years.» (They And I. 7. 21.) _Conversation between a young lady and her brother, who is a student._ At _Cambridge_, _Little-go_ is the common name for the public examination which candidates for an »ordinary degree» have to pass in the second year of residence. Cf. _Great-go_: the final examination for the B. A. nurse »I had been ‘_nursing_’ her, as we say in the political world, for years.» (The Prude’s Progress 67. 20.) _A young author._ _Political slang_: used of a candidate for Parliament who seeks to ingratiate himself with the electors by paying them attentions and giving them things they like with a view to securing their votes when the election takes place. Here used of trying to prepare a young lady’s mind to accept a proposal of marriage when the moment comes to make it. pater, mater »I say to myself I’ll do a thing, but _the mater_ talks and talks, and——.» (Sketches 41. 12.) _A young gentleman._ »I promised _the Mater_ I would, and I did.» (Sketches 80. 30.) _The same._ »_The Mater_ gave me half-a-crown a week for pocket-money.» (Sketches 81. 9.) _The same._ »_The pater_ came to the conclusion that it was time he laid down a dog.» (Novel Notes 48. 18.) _The same._ The commonest familiar names for the parents on the lips of the average public schoolboy. plough «You have been _ploughed_ then?» (Prude’s Progress). _Schoolboy slang_ for _to be rejected in an examination_. Cf. the synonymous _to be plucked_ and _to be spun_. ratty »Against one such [a portraiture to the living original], evidently an attempt to help Dick see himself in his true colours, I find this marginal note in pencil: ‘Better not’. _Might make him ratty._» (They And I. 258. 1.) _A schoolgirl._ The expression is, I think, _schoolboy slang_ for _waxy_, _annoyed_. (Cf. Swed. «gnafven».) shoot