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Key terms illustrated in The Art of Manliness: Classic Skills and Manners for the Modern Man:

Bone Box. The mouth. Shut your bone box; shut your mouth.

Draw the Long Bow. To tell extravagant stories, to exaggerate overmuch; same as “throw the hatchet.” From the extremely wonderful stories which used to be told of the Norman archers, and more subsequently of Indians’ skill with the tomahawk.

Firing A Gun. Introducing a story by head and shoulders. A man, wanting to tell a particular story, said to the company, “Hark; did you not hear a gun?—but now we are talking of a gun, I will tell you the story of one.”

Hogmagundy. The process by which the population is increased.

Rumbumptious. Haughty, pugilistic.

Sneeze-lurker. A thief who throws snuff in a person’s face, and then robs him.

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