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Les Femmes Cocher / 139

A Cocher Miscellany / 6

Picture (left): First Day Flowers

Today is New Year's Day
Tell me, Bourgeois, have I been polite?
You admit it! Then no more blather:
Shut your trap and don't dawdle,
Fork over a hundred sous to Baby for New Year's!

The card refers to the French custom of handing out gifts or special tips to servants on New Year's Day. In this case the cabbie is stereotypically presumptuous and ungrateful. The French "f..." word corresponds exactly to the familiar English "f..." word and is an especially crude way of saying "give".