or garden (thieves: obsolete).—Coldbath Fields prison: from an official of that name and a certain appropriateness in the initials, C.B.F., the prison initials, and used as a stamp. TO FEED THE CHICKENS ON CHARLEY BATES’ FARM = to be put to the tread-mill.
18[?]. Broadside Ballad, ‘Old Bates’s Farm.’
| So if I should touch lucre, | |
| For a time I will keep calm, | |
| If I don’t see you here some night, | |
| I shall at BATES’ FARM. |
1897. MARSHALL, Pomes, 72. On a holiday to BATES’ FARM his gentle Maud he sent.
