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When I finally got inside my room and had a chance to look around, I saw that it was very prettily furnished with ebonywood furniture, which was covered with red satin cushions and the windows were hung with red silk curtains. All the bedrooms were just alike. It had high teaster posts with slats running across on which red curtains were hung. These kongs are very curiously built.
I'm sure as civil as he is, he helps him to steal my Gold, I doubt and to be sure Gentlemen, you say he's a Gamester I desire when he comes anon, that you wou'd propose to sport a Dye, or so and we'll fall to play for a Teaster, or the like and if he sets any money, I shall go near to know my own Gold, by some remarkable Pieces amongst it; and if he have it, I'll hang him, and then all his six hundred a Year will be my own, which I have in Mortgage.
When Sir Launcelot, with some warmth, asked the reason of this attack, the squire replied in these words: "The devil, God bless us! mun be playing his pranks with Gilbert too, as sure as I'm a living soul I'se wager a teaster, the foul fiend has left the seaman, and got into Gilbert, that he has when a has passed through an ass and a horse, I'se marvel what beast a will get into next."
This wrought fustian bed was certainly handsome. By revolutionary times we read such items as these: "Neet sette bed," "Very genteel red and white copperplate Cottonbed with Squab and Window Curtains Fring'd and made in the Newest Taste," "Sacken' & Corded Beds and a Pallat Bed," "Very Handsome Flower'd Crimson worsted damask carv'd and rais'd Teaster Bed & Curtains compleat," "A Four Post Bedstead of Mahogany on Casters with Carved Foot Posts, Callico Curtains to Ditto & Window Curtains to Match, and a Green Harrateen Cornish Bed."
It is especially found in public school and university slang. This is a very early example. p. 250 Teaster. i.e. a tester sixpence, cf. Farquhar's Love and a Bottle, , i, I, where Brush says: 'Who throws away a Tester and a mistress loses sixpence. p. 251 to top upon him. To cheat him; to trick him; especially to cheat with dice. cf.
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