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Show London Street Sayings. London street sayings, like music hall songs, have generally but a short life, the Chronicle of that city says. "Has your mother sold her mangle?" "Who shot the dog?" "How are you off for soap?" survive only In old novels. nov-els. Some, however, are revived with slight alterations. The expression oi dissent emphasized 12 months ago by "Not in these trousers" used 30 years ago to be conveyed by the tag, "Not in these boots." One street Baying still occasionally heard dates back more than 60 years. Mrs. C. W. Earle states that at the time of the 1851 ex hibition "the excessive fatigue and weariness so stamped on the face ol everybody who wanders about huge exhibitions ex-hibitions became in that year a source of amusement for the London street boy, and took the form of calling as they passed, 'How's your poor foot?' " |