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'Rock View, No.. 155, WANCHAI Alacrite without the leat idea sa to its tras manu-Pantry and Out-homo, very large back Caories Ing. Bag one can easily understand. But yard, vorandahs back and front, beatiful, Roth
view of Harbour and Colony what is baggage? As a matter of fact, wo get nearer to the original meaning of the word what we say of gume hughing," mischievous girl, that sho lan ely little bag- gage, for the "bag" was, originally a soldier's havesnack, and the baggagu !' was his wife, and when an' my marched,” "bag and baggage," it meant that they out oat with all their accoutrements and all their camp followers.
Feople Aro, sometimes heard to say cuncorning"a muono, whom they have'de liberately snubbad, "I gave hi
hin the cold shoulder." Most people, not knowing its true origin," would invont a meaning för this phrase, and would naturally imagine that it meant that one half tifraud one's 'back and put on a cpid, aullon, and une. | friendly expressico. That sounds all right, bat ny a matter of fact it is all wrong. The phimao originated in France, where it was the custom to serve with cold whauldet, of mattoni instead of hot mest, the guest who,
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the whole bog" means to spend the whole
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