.—The roar of cannon is the Devil’s Tattoo, by which those generous-hearted men (called soldies, who are paid six-pence a day to shoot and to be shot at,) are warned to appear at their last quarters. Can anyone pity them?
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Entry taken from A Political Dictionary, by Charles Pigott, 1795.
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