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...expression, "Hobson's Choice" originated in the stables back of the Bull Hotel (now the hotel garage). Hostler Hobson insisted upon exact rotation of his horses and always told students to "take your choice, as long as you take the one nearest the door...
...Book. In 1795, the daughter of a man who ran a livery stable at the sign of the Swan and Hoop, Finsbury Pavement, Moorfields, married one Thomas Keats, her father's trusted head hostler and, a year later, bore him a son, John. This boy went to school till he was 17, was then bound apprentice to a surgeon, read Wordsworth, Byron, Spenser, looked into Chapman's Homer, wrote some stumbling poetry, made friends with Editor Leigh Hunt, Painter Haydon, Etcher Joseph Severn, Publish- er's Reader Woodhouse. Although lie was only five feet high, the beauty of his countenance...
...Morgan & Co. and classmate of the President, uses one. It was Mr. Morrow who brought the contrivance to the President's attention and presented him with the one now in the White House. It might never have been discovered had not it become disabled and a hostler-electrician been called to repair...
SCENE, Pike's stable. - Funny Freshman (to hostler, who is rubbing down his horse). - "Pat, I'm afraid you're currying favor with that horse...
...Hostler. - "Faith, no! I'm merely scrapin' an acquaintance...