Definitions by Hugo Drax

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.

Alphonse by Hugo Drax June 26, 2018

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.

paddy roller by Hugo Drax March 26, 2016