paddy roller

(1) An iron wagon with iron wheels that carried a cage filled with prisoners, or escaped slaves back in ante-bellum days. (2) A group of men who retrieved escaped slaves from the plantations in the South.

(1) A paddy roller drawn by draught horses was filled convicts on the way to a work assignment on the county highway.

(2) A paddy roller successfully caught Kunta Kinte as the runaway slave was securely manacled for the journey back to his master.

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Alphonse

An alphonse is a pimp, a procurer. The word originated in Poland, because of a popular play by Alexander Dumas, the Younger called "Monsieur Alphonse". In many countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Poland the name is seldom used to name a baby. Please refer to Cassell's dictionary, or Wicktionary.

We ate alfresco in what turned out to a seedy part of town as our meal was always being interrupted by some alphonse, who wanted to parade his street walkers before us.

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