wigful

When I became strong enough to be again able to rim about, I was once more sent to a day-school, and all that I remember about the matter was, that every day, about eleven o'clock, I was told to run home and get a wigful of potatoes from Brandon's, the venerable pedagogue coolly taking off his wig, and exchanging it for a red night cap, until my return with the provender.

We know, full well indeed, from the very nature of some of our pleas, as surely as ever a "leader" in Court of Queen's Bench, Exchequer or Chancery can tell that he will have gowned brothers down upon him with whole wigsful of battery, prepared to resist him from all the Malakoffs and Mamelons in the Kingdom of laws, before he has well laid down a parallel, that we shall not have all the Court with us