Chain mail, or an American football suit - that's what you'll want.

They played a crude trick on the teacher.

A number of wandering and flockless preachers hawked challenges from town to town.

Some other interesting, if typically American, developments referred to as 'service enhancements' included, for the sleeping car rider, pillows in the seats for 'daytime comfort', morning tea or coffee, newspaper, and even a shoeshine!