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This is part of Jaques' famous speech in As You Like It which starts "All the World's a stage."

Then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail

Unwillingly to school.

A satchel is a bag to carry things in. Students in every era have used them and called them bookbags, schoolbags, rucksacks, packsacks and backpacks.

The word "satchel" shows up in the nicknames of two famous black americans. One is Baseball player Satchel Paige, 1906-1982, who may have got the nickname from being a porter at the railway station when he was young, carrying eveyone's satchels. The other is jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong 1901-1971, who was called "Satchmo", short for "Satchel-mouth", because of his wide and capacious mouth.

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