Word: mudding
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...driver. 'Politeness,' mingled with authority of tone, so as to be able to say, 'Now, then, step, lively, old lady; don't keep us here all night!' 'Humor,' or a fondness for starting the car just before you step off, thereby causing you to shoot forth into the mud. 'Mystification,' or a capacity for mistaking 30th for 13th street. 'An eye to the beautiful,' or a habit of staring ladies out of countenance or the car. 'Disinterestedness,' when the track is obstructed; this virtue will invariably lead the conductor to a neighboring saloon until all obstacles are removed...
...friends who make a tri-weekly pilgrimage to Divinity Hall are at present much interested in the Tall-mud...
While daintily picking a pathway through the mud and the ice and the snow...