' Edith liked Vincy to talk in his favourite Cockney strain.

In whatever situation the dramatist may place her, whether in a London drawing-room or a Cockney kitchen, whether on an Algerian battle-field or in a California mining-camp, she is certain to produce the inevitable banjo, and to sing the irrepressible comic song.

"Perhaps the cockney thinks we're admirals, with our pockets lined with gold.

It was I who proposed that we take up that cockney's invitation.

Where they choose to imitate flesh, or silk, or to play any vulgar modern trick with marble(and they often do)whatever, in a word, is French, or American, or Cockney, in their work, you can see; but what is Florentine, and for ever greatunless you can see also the beauty of this old man in his citizen's cap,you will see never.

One day as chance had sent him, picking his way among the orange boxes, the moving farms, and the wig-makers of Covent Garden, he had come upon a sculptor's shop, oddly crowded in among Cockney carters and decaying vegetables.

The same number of Blackwood which contained the "Translation from an Ancient Chaldee Manuscript," contained two articles, one probably by Wilson, on Coleridge's "Biographia Literaria," the other, signed "Z," by Lockhart, being the first of a series on "The Cockney School of Poetry.

Subsequent numbers of Blackwood contained other reviews of "The Cockney School of Poetry": Leigh Hunt, "the King of the Cockneys," was attacked in May, and in August it was the poet Keats who came under the critic's lash, four months after Croker's famous review of "Endymion" in the Quarterly.

He is a dignified figure with a shiny curl on his forehead, and a rich Cockney accent, full of information, generally, I must admit, strikingly inaccurate, but bestowed with such an air.

Doctor says that when he goes to London his mind is bruised with the weight of the houses, and he was a Cockney born.

"'Oo 's this?" asked the Cockney, as he was called, smacking his lips over the wine and rolling Joe out upon the floor.

Bill cast off the bowline, the Cockney followed suit with the stern, 'Frisco Kid gave her the jib as French Pete jammed up the tiller, and the Dazzler caught the breeze, heeling over for mid-channel.

Joe asked the Cockney, in an endeavor to be friendly and at the same time satisfy his curiosity.

Bill was trying to shove it off, and was calling on the Cockney to lend a hand; but that gentleman had lost his head completely, and came floundering through the water hard after Joe.

But the Cockney's teeth were chattering with fright, and he was too unnerved to move or speak.

Off a bleak piece of marshland Bill and the Cockney said good-by and cast loose in their skiff.

MORGLAY makes Dido tell Æneas that she should have been contented with a son, even "if he had been a cockney dandiprat" (1582).

(See RUDGE.) BARNACLE, brother of old Nicholas Cockney, and guardian of Priscilla Tomboy of the West Indies.

Barnacle is a tradesman of the old school, who thinks the foppery and extravagance of the "Cockney" school inconsistent with prosperous shop-keeping.

I had a cockney nature calendar planted in mine, that began with a bunch of snowdrops, ran through hot poppy days, and ended in a glow of chrysanthemums, but all the while I worked among these I felt the breath of civilization about me and the solid pavement under my feet.

It was curious how strong my emotion was at seeing those laughing fellows and hearing the cockney accent of their tongues.

Some of the days have been intensely hot, but the British Tommy unfastens his coat and leaves his shirt open at the chest, and with the sun bronzing his face to a deeper, richer tint, marches on, singing a cockney ballad as though he were on the road to Weybridge or Woking.

The Thames nigger is generally a cockney covered with blackening, which only alters his skin and does not change his accent.

"These lodgings, Esther," said he, as he was preparing to go out, soon after breakfast, on the morning after his arrival, "are scarcely the thing; and as I, like you, am a stranger in Cockney-land, I had better consult some of the firm upon the subject, before we decide upon permanent ones.

"The night air has taut'ned the cordage of that flying-jib-boom, fellows, until it begins to lift its nose like a squeamish cockney, when he holds it over salt-water!