Says Snooker, at the club

Nuneaton Observer, Friday 25 April 1890

Ат the Riding School.—Brown Æquestrius: “Look here, Smith, this brute ain’t a bit o’ good, I shall chuck him in another minute or two.” Smith: “All right, old chappie, shouldn’t wonder if he hadn’t arrived at the same conclusion.” [As it turned out, he had.]

“Not at settling day last week nor again this; I’m afraid it’s all up with Timson,” says Snooker, at the club. “Quite the reverse—It’s all down with him, and influenza jumping upon him,” explains Spankers, between a sneeze and reference to the contents of the tumbler before him—something hot with a slice of lemon floating in it.