At pool, shell out, or snooker
Somerset Standard, Saturday 06 September 1890
WILD OATS
By Captain F.M. Peacock
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Just in the same old way he gracefully wins money off very young subalterns at pool, shell out, or snooker. He lives in the mess now with his brother officers, who finds, somewhat to their surprise, that he habitually drinks a bottle of whiskey a day, which they good-naturedly ascribe to grief …