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He is as cross as two sticks . Reader , if you doubt the fact , consult the ' Edinburgh Review . ' The backward way the broomstick . It would seem that the author is ' no conjurer / or he would have seen that this alludes to an old witch story .
Once upon a time , you know , there was an old witch , ( there are many young ones still , ) and she had a son , and his name was Jack , you know , and so Jack knew his mother went out every night , and he watched her , you know . And so she got on a broomstick astride , and she sung out , " Over the bushes , and over the briers , Over the mud , and over the mires . " ' And away she went up the chimney , like the devil in a high wind . So Jack , you know , as soon as she was gone , got a broomstick too , and got on to it astride , but he rode with his face the wrong way , taking the tail in his hand for a bridle , you know , and then he made another mistake of serious import , for he cried out , " Through the bushes , and through the briers , Through the mud , and through the mires . "' This change of a word was a sad thing for Jack , you know , for he had his skin nearly all scratched off , and the raw wounds rubbed in with mud
and mire . Mr . Hogg has used the same idea in the c Queen ' s Wake , where the wicked women of Fife go to drink the bishop ' s wine ; (the old husband of one of them following ,, gets drunk , and forgets the flying word . ' But the phrase c Backward way the broomstick' may also have a reference to the Chancellor ' s success in undoing all his popularity . The reading then would be e Going back , the broom ( Brougham ) stick . ' No one can doubt that Mr . Ker has contem plated it in this light ; and , indeed , he refers especially to the Chancellor ' s late progress . — ' The preposterous way of getting a reputation , one by which you will acquire the reverse of a good name . « . . To glorify oneself , to make oneself important ; it implies , of course , to do so in the manner of vain-glorious people ,
in a mountebank way . ' Half-seas over . The author translates this phrase , ' sewed upJ It is clear that it cannot in any way refer to the Chancellor , for we have the assurance in one of his own speeches that he is very moderate in his potations . Therefore it is evident that the custom of calling port wine in a tumbler ' The Chancellor ' negus , ' is a sheer libel . He is driven from post to pilloiv . Quere . Dost the post mean * scratc hing post ? ' Jf so , it may prefigure a return from Scotland 10 the pillow or woolsack . B y hook or crook . This takes its date from the time Theodore Hook was in the Mauritius . He cut the grass from under the foot . This means the conduct ° f the aristocrats towards th £ great body of the operatives . They
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Preface to the New Bellendenus . 781
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1834, page 781, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2639/page/35/
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