subs.—See quot.

1

  1877.  HAWLEY SMART, Play or Pay, ch. iv. ‘Not going to hunt? Why Miss Bazing told me you had a regular string of horses coming down!’ ‘Ah, Bessie’s wrong. I always was a changeable beggar, you know. The string consists of a hack, just good enough to do a little bit of COFFEE-HOUSING occasionally.

2