Note 3 — Minor Queries.
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[Probably some of our correspondents may know the origin of this phrase; and as many of them, perhaps, are not acquainted with its meaning among the slang literati, we may as well enlighten them with a quotation from the Lexicon Balatronicum et Macaronicum of Master Jon Bee: "Peckham, going to dinner. 'All holiday at Peckham,' no appetite. Peckish, hungry."—Ed.]