"One of them mots that do be in the packets of fags" (U10.1142)
'Mot' is Dublin slang for 'woman.' Packets of cigarettes (e.g. Ogden, Players) often included one card of a series (e.g. Leaders of Men, Cries of London, British Birds) in every pack. Ogden's had one of Queen Victoria.
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