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The host left every one at perfect liberty to scramble for himself. 'Rags' is certainly a strong word to apply to any of the company; but then strong words were what Johnson used. Northcote mentions 'the mixture of company. Northcote's Reynolds, ii. 94-6. See ante, iii. 375, note 2. The Mayor of Windsor. Rogers's Boswelliana, p. 211. The play was acted at Drury Lane Theatre, old Mr.
Soldiers arrested for breach of discipline often pleaded that they had been 'sent for to finish a job of work for Madame'; and this excuse was usually sufficient to secure an acquittal. Vol. i, pp. 94-6. It was with the Indians, rather than with the Acadians, that the authorities had the greatest trouble.
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