head-over-tail

Updated: May 6, 2025

Miss Macpherson dragged a mattress off one of the beds and threw it down in the centre for them to tumble head-over-tail; and, as she truly said, it was difficult to recognise in those merry shouts and happy faces any remains of the veriest reprobates of the London streets. Let us hear Miss Macpherson herself speak.

Charles Maurice Davies - Mystic London:: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis