He does not sell beer by the bucket or can or growler or schooner, but by the pint. He and his brethren, taken together, are the licensed trade. His back-room is a parlor. If he has a few upholstered benches in his place he usually calls it a lounge. He employs no bartenders.
Barmaids do the work, with maybe a barman to help.
A subaltern is a commissioned officer in the army, under the rank of captain. Porridge, moor, scullery, draper, treacle and tram, though unfamiliar, still need no explanation. He carries his clothes in a box. He does not ask for a round-trip ticket, but for a return ticket. If he proposes to go to the theatre Note 8.