ven-man's

Updated: June 13, 2025

"Oh! ho! ho! yow goo into druggist's shop o' market-day, into Cambridge, and you'll see the little boxes, doozens and doozens, a' ready on the counter; and never a ven-man's wife goo by, but what calls in for her pennord o' elevation, to last her out the week. Oh! ho! ho! Well, it keeps women-folk quiet, it do; and it's mortal good agin ago pains." "But what is it?" "Opium, bor' alive, opium!"

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography