A cheap hat.
“Running with bare head about,
While the town is tempest-tost,
‘Prentice lads unheeded shout
That their three-per-cents are lost.”
Désaugiers: Le Pilier du Café
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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