text:  As times wore on and as the free-and-easy revolutionary school came to inculcate their loose doctrines on women as well as men the ladies began to find the hinder pokes of their hats uncommon nuisances; and so in a fit of spleen one day the Duchess of G---- or some other woman of fashion cut off this hinder protuberance and appeared to the scandal of her neighbours _plus_ the front poke _minus_ the back one