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Pauper, Thief and Convict 39: ‘This is pudding day’ – the day, that is to say, which is known at sea as ‘banyan,’ and it has been celebrated by the substitution of suet pudding and treacle for the ordinary meat, bread, and vegetables. Pauper, Thief and Convict 125: The knot of bullies who are the accursed henchmen of the stew. Pauper, Thief and Convict 25: [They] are thieves. Not young cadgers, like him who was lately from the workhouse, but regular thieves of the ordinary stamp. Pauper, Thief and Convict 47: At a pretty early hour the ‘casual’ is aroused, and receives another slab of bread by way of breakfast. It often happens, however, that neither breakfast nor supper is eaten, the needs of the tramps extending not so much to food as to rest. Pauper, Thief and Convict 52: [He] became, by [...] a fearless unflinching bravado, a sort of recognised chief or ‘cock’ of this strange school. Pauper, Thief and Convict 127: Old Peg could tell you some queer stories if you could get hold of her and stand a drain, and give her a bit of tobacco. Pauper, Thief and Convict 123: A man wearing a billycock hat, and with the fag end of a cigar in his mouth [...]. Pauper, Thief and Convict 25: A mere child of thirteen perhaps, who is half street hawker half prostitute [...] seen flaunting on the streets [...] adopting him [i.e. a pickpocket] as her ‘fancy.’. Pauper, Thief and Convict 24: He becomes known to the police as a regular pickpocket and filcher. Pauper, Thief and Convict 119: It suddenly occurs to me, however, that bouquets are not amongst the usual accompaniments of the fair frequenters of Paddy’s Goose. Pauper, Thief and Convict 83: Lounging on the rough wooden settles, and smoking pipefuls of ‘hard’ which they cut from a flat cake with their clasp-knives. Pauper, Thief and Convict 13: People [...] will endure almost anything rather than ‘go into the house,’ that is, than become Union paupers. Pauper, Thief and Convict 145: A high flight of new steps, steep as those of a ship’s hold, and known to the lodgers as ‘Jacob’s ladder’. Pauper, Thief and Convict 88: Yes, the land rats [i.e. pimps and whores] are always hungry and are always waiting for Jack. Pauper, Thief and Convict 145: Cheap bedding, picked up at second-hand, ‘down The Lane,’ by which is meant Petticoat Lane, sometimes known by its more genteel name of Middlesex Street. Pauper, Thief and Convict 26: These are the regular thieves – pickpockets, magsmen, sharpers, when they can sport a respectable ‘get up.’. Pauper, Thief and Convict 138: The proprietor (known here as the guv’ner, or more frequently as ‘the old man,’ ‘governor’ having, after all, a disagreeable association). Pauper, Thief and Convict 94: Irish Mike carries a hod, while his wife sits behind a fruit-stall [...] and between them they make a better income than many a decent mechanic. Pauper, Thief and Convict 162: The tread-wheel, which was first brought into use at Brixton prison in 1817 [...] has been the terror of idle scoundrels ever since, and is generally known among them as ‘the mill.’. Pauper, Thief and Convict 33: They never have confessed to more than ‘half a pint of four ale,’ and ‘jest the least drop – a quartern and three outs amongst three on us’ – of gin. Pauper, Thief and Convict 26: Let him ‘take up with another poll,’ and [...] he had better choose some fresh locality. [Ibid.] 127: What was she! Why, a prostitute – one of the regular Polls. Pauper, Thief and Convict 86: Those poor fellows [...] are ready to accept any dishonest hand, and to hear [...] the lying salutations of the ‘runner,’ and to fall at once into the trap of the procuress and her myrmidons. Pauper, Thief and Convict 227: The regulation [prison] dress consists of cord trousers, a blue ‘slop,’ or coarse frock of blue striped with white, and a light blue striped cap. Pauper, Thief and Convict 64: Putting a ‘half sov.’ on a horse with somebody with whom to bet. Pauper, Thief and Convict 140: There mayn’t be false swearing, call it what you like, but they wag their jaws to a lie.