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A village school-master “of ragged lads.”
“Mid noise, and dirt, and stench, and play, and prate,
He calmly cuts the pen or views the slate.”
Crabbe: Boraugh, letter xxiv.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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