To a cheek competition I challenge all comers,
   I've a man who will gravel them all -
Machine-agents, and lawyers, and spielers, and drummers -
   Any blessed with abundance of gall.
He is not an advertisement-shrak nor a copper,
   He is mild in his general ways,
But he wears a high collar and nailkeg belltopper,
   And he sneers at a woman in stays.

"Snell"
The Bulletin, 15 September 1894, p14