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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Shandy Gaff (208 words)
In the old days, of course, the drink was known as shandy gaff and consisted of three-quarters of a pint of draught bitter topped up with ginger beer.
If refreshment is what you're after, consider the Shandy Gaff, a mix of beer and ginger ale.
Then there's that old summertime stand-by, the Shandy Gaff, a refreshing blend of lager and ginger ale or ginger beer.
Victorian London - Publications - Social Investigation/Journalism - Unsentimental Journeys; or Byways of the Modern ... (1608 words)
Other evening scribes have already made their deposits, and higgledy-piggledy lie invitations, accepta-letters; and, as it happens, that addressed to Miss Payne falls plump atop of a shabby flimsy envelope, with the postage-stamp stuck at the bottom left-hand corner, and the superscription ill spelt and villanously askew.
It is addressed to " Shandy Gaff, Esq.," and is the sort of letter that any one, let alone an experienced town postman, may see through with half an eye.
My manhood chafes at my scarlet collar, and my impulse is to thwart the rascally Shandy by delaying the delivery of the note for just one little hour, when it will be handed to the traitor at the breakfast-table, and in the presence of the outraged Mrs.
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