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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—R

Reuben Dixon

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: Borough, letter xxiv.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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