larly distributed than these regulars, some among them being regularly put in the hole.'

Rent-to collect the, is to obtain money upon the highway. 'Rent collectors,' are robbers of money only. Thus, 'we have collected the rent,' cannot be misunderstood for goods, however valuable. See Blunt.

Reporters some three or four hundred persons, boys and men, who are employed, 1st. In collecting scraps of intelligence for the newspapers, as to fires, accidents, and coroners' inquests. 2nd. Another set procure the initial examinations of culprits at the police-offices, (who are sometimes the clerks in those offices,) also, of trotting-matches aquatic excursions, &c. 3rd. Gentlemen of learning, with habits of industry, take short notes of debates in parliament, of law proceedings, and judgments in civil law. These invariably write better stuff than is spoken: the former exaggerate invariably, in order to make their articles read well. See Two-pence a line. Republic of letters-the post-office.

Resurrection-men-those who raise the dead-bodies of our church-yards.

Return-blow (ring)-one having planted a hit, the other within a colon-pause, returns with the like hand.

Revoke-at cards, when one refuseth to play to suite, though holding that suite, is to revoke-feminine, mostly. To Renigue is the same, from niguer, to deny or refuse, again. Reward (kennel)-dog's or hound's supper; also the blood and entrails of the objects of chase, hot and hot. On one occasion a suitable reward' being offered for the restoration of a lost five-pound note, Tom Rees defined it to mean a kick as hard as the rewarder was able, upon the third person in a suit of clothes.

Rhino-coined money, though extended to paper.

"Jack gave all his rhino to lessen their woe,
And steer them from poverty's rock."

Ribbons-reins for guiding horses; four-in-hand. Riddlesworth stakes (the) are the largest in England, being for 200gs. each, positive; sixteen having entered for the first class (colts) in 1821, and eighteen (fillies) for the second class, next day. They are run at Newmarket Craven meeting, are of nine or ten years standing, and carry--fillies 8 st. 2 lbs. colts 8 st. 4 lbs. adding 3 lb. each for parent

winners.

Ride (v.)—a thing every one can do, in some way or other;

few well. Grooms ride better than esquires, rough riders than captains, stable-boys than horse-dealers.

Now, Sirs, close your heels and sit back;

Oh, pray drop your hands and don't pull !
If this be call'd riding, good lack!

What can we expect from John Bull!!"

Riding to hounds-seldom done by novices, who generally go over as much ground again as the old hands, or get thrown out. Keep the hounds in view to the last, and when the chase takes a circle, or any segment thereof, ride inside it, or diametrically across towards the chase's favourite gorse or cover.

Rig-he who has the rig run upon him,' has to undergo a great number of false imputations. One may run his rig, however, impersonally, or upon all of the company without much offence. To rig,' to dress out anew. "The rig;' in auction sales, the dealers agree not to bid against each other, buy low, and afterwards re-sell the same, by a mimick auction-called 'knock out.' Ring-Huntsmen are said to make a ring, when they cast about a wood or gorse. 'Ring-walks, the rounds in which springs were set for the stag.

The Ring-the roped space within which pugilists display their science or their hardihood: usually about 24 feet each way, and by an easy transition, applied to those who look on, or take delight in the manly, peaceful contests there exhibited. "I leave it to the ring." "Not a voice was heard all round the ring." They are divided into amateurs (persons of property) and the men,' or boxers, part of whom only are pugilists. The word is derived from a certain circular space inclosed with rails in Hyde park, by command of George II. having a large oak in the middle; the area is now planted with young limes and the railing is decayed; going strait up from Grosvenor-gate, the ring lies about 550 steps into the park. "A ring, a ring!" Call a ring,' is the necessary preliminary to a regular fight. In America, a justice of the peace being fatigued with the wordy disputes of his applicants, called a ring,' at which the constables, barristers, and other applicants assisted--and saw fair play. Ring-dropping-is practised occasionally by fellows who pretend to chop upon a gold ring, and confer half the property upon a bystander, in order to sell him the other half-'tis brass-faced cheatery,

'Ring the changes'-changing of good money for bad, by hackney-coachmen, Jews in the streets, &c. Riot-is an uproar and misdoing by several; five according to the old law, but modernly they are enacted riotous' though decorous! The law of common sense says No; and with common parlance must soon put the law in abeyance. In Ireland, a single person may make a riot, if he or she have good lungs: says Murdoch Delaney to Jenny O'Donelly

'I pray you be quiet,

And breed no more riot,

But kiss me

In the business of the chase, when stag-hounds run among the herd, they are said to run riot.' Then, all whips to work, or the pack is spoiled in ten minutes.

Ripe-drunk.

First cousin to mellow.

'R. N.-Mornings 12 to 4: evenings 7 to 12 at-PallMall.' Cards so inseribed are handed about as invitations to rouge et noire in the hells about St. James's. Some are distributed from Cleveland-row, others from Jermynstreet, Bennet-street, &c.

Rogues in grain'-corn-factors and jobbers.

Roley-poley-Running down Greenwich-park hills, and its consequent tumble and roll to the bottom, when the parties embrace, is one way of making love among the young folks of Cockney-shire. A newly introduced French game, which they call une, deux, cinque,' has been Anglicised into roley-poley, from the tumbling about of the ball, which is many-sided; each flat surface is marked with black, red, or blue spots, and the colour which remains uppermost when the ball rests, is successful for those of the players who may have put down their money upon that particular colour on the table: the monies down upon the other two colours are then lost by the players who have chosen them, to the roulette-keeper or groom, he covering the stakes when black wins, paying double when 'tis red, and five times when blue. Of course, the number of blue spots are but a fifth that of the black, and the red twice as many. When these proportions are faithfully observed, the play is two to one against the punters. Roll-in the gait; rolling-sailor. See Oh my Leg!' My mammy sent me to the well, To get some water for my tea, My foot it slipp'd and in I fell, The rolling sailor top of me,

Rolls-dough-baked small bread, eaten by low-bred cockneys for the most part, and come out for delivery at eight o'clock A. M. "Ah, Mister Gallus (gallows) I tell ye vhat, I shall see you come out, along vid de roles one of these here mornings,"-eight being also the hour of hanging malefactors. By a poor pun, 'Master of the Rolls'-is any baker, if he can box any.' Jack Martin is the actual M. R. Rookery-courts and alleys with a full population, are aptly termed rookeries, from the manner of assembling, the croakings, and dark colour of the two sets of inhabitants-with several other veri-similitudes. Rooks-those fellows about gambling-houses who are employed in plucking well-fledged pigeons. They are of every quality, from the thorough-paced gent down to the marker, and may be engaged either in actual play, in acting the confederate, in procuring loans, in forcible robbery, in breaking the pigeon's neck down-stairs, or, finally, fighting him with pistols, by way of finish.

Roost-bed. Gone to roost, is Doughey;' the baker is abed. Rotan―a carriage of any sort, originally meaning the cart only. Hence Rotan-row,' the ride in Hyde-park, now mis-spelt Rotten-row :

Rotten-row, my Sunday ride;

Tottledom, hey! Tumbledown, ho!
Poney eighteen-pence aside,
Windgall, glanderum, ho.

Rot-gut-swipes of the third running off the wort, or porter after being doctored by the publican. Jemmy Lee had a saying of the three runnings-that the first was merrygo-down,' the second, ' must-be-swallowed,' but the third is 'rot-gut.'

Round-about-female thief's pocket, which encircles her body and reaches down to the knees, with two apertures; it will stand a common search undetected; a watch, spoons, or money, sliding round from side to side; and if the wearer be bulky, much larger articles pass undiscovered. Round-about--the tread-mill recently invented for the employment of convicts in prison, is thus denominated by them. "About she goes,' said when at work. This invention of Mr. Cubit's, we find anticipated by Sam. Butler, who having endeavoured to describe a turnspit-from hearsay probably-missed his mark, and hit off the contrivance of 1821, to a tee:

"Just as a dog, that turns a spit,
Bestirs himself, and plies his feet
To climb the wheel; but all in vain,
His own weight brings him down again;
And still he's in the self-same place
Where at his setting out he was."

Round-betting-(Turf.) Those who bet upon or against several horses that are entered for any given stakes, are said to bet round.' A taker in revising his betting-bock, should sit down coolly and estimate his losses upon each individual horse of his taking, supposing it should be the winner, and he may make a safe thing of his entire series; but the best game is to give the odds upon a series of ten horses (a few more or less) rejecting the favourite, which seldom wins, particularly the Doncaster St. Leger, because there several riders usually combine to shut him out' from the start. The results of this mode of betting are found uniformly successful, under the management of a keen sportsman-such as was the inventor, Mr. Robert Wardell; nor indeed could he well fail, seeing that when the sportsman lays his bets 10 to 1 against any one horse, and gives the same odds on ten horses round, he not only restores the balance of his entire bets upon the ten horses named, but takes his chance that some few of these may be withdrawn ; as well as that some five, six, seven, or more horses besides the remanet of those ten named, may start, and one of those 'outside horses' carry off the stakes. To gentlemen who would push to extremities their inquiries respecting the Doctrine of Chances,' the information may be acceptable, that Mr. Thomas Simpson has written a Treatise on the "Nature and Laws of Chance," and our celebrated Dr. Hutton some curious observations on this abstract science. A celebrated German (Jacob Bernouilli) has written, in Latin, “De Arte Conjectandi ;" and Condorcet, a Frenchman, has produced a small Tract on the same interesting subject.

Roulette-(La). See Roley-poley, Grab, Punt. Rounds-(ring.) When boxers set-to, they fight till down, and that is a round; the next round begins not until halfa-minute, at least, has expired. Any deviation, attended with fatal consequences, is an act constituting manslaughter, on the part of the assistants. The Round of bons vivans. Some men make a series of calls every day at certain boozing-houses, which constitute their rounds