[Footnote 125: A cant Word for giving some Money in order to shew a Lodging.]
[Footnote 126: Which is One Pound Six Shillings and Eightpence, and then you are entitled to a Bed on the Master's Side, for which you pay so much per week.]
[Footnote 127: _Mount Scoundrel_, so call'd from its being so highly situated, and belonging once to the Common Side, tho' lately added to the Master's; if there be room in the House, this Place is first empty, and the Chamberlain commonly shews this to raise his price upon you for a better.]
[Footnote 130: When you have a Chum, you pay but 15 Pence per Week each, and, indeed, that is the Rent of the whole Room, if you find Furniture.]
[Footnote 131: The Upper Floors are accounted best here, for the same reason as they are at _Edinburgh_, which, I suppose, every Body knows.]
[Footnote 132: It is common to mention the _Fleet_ by the Name of the _Place_, and I suppose it is call'd _the Place_ by way of Eminence, because there is not such another.]
[Footnote 133: A Cant Word for a Drain of Geneva.]
[Footnote 134: A Chew of Tobacco, suppos'd to be given him.]
[Footnote 135: The Necessary House, is (by the Prisoners) commonly call'd _Scotland_, near which is a dung-hill.]
[Footnote 136: When there are Holes above Heel, or the Feet are so bad in a Stocking, that you are forced to pull them to hide the Holes, or cover the Toes, it is called coaxing.]
[Footnote 137: As the Prison is often call'd the _College_, so it is common to call a prisoner, a _Collegian_; and this character is taken from a man who had been many Years in the Place, and like to continue his Life; but it is hard for those who had not seen him to judge of the Truth of the Draught.]
[Footnote 138: The name of the Cook in the Kitchen.]
[Footnote 139: A place in the Cellar, called _Bartholomew Fair_.]
[Footnote 140: A phrase for spending Money fast.]
[Footnote 142: _Bleed_ also signifies spending.]
[Footnote 143: When a Messenger or Friend brings Money from abroad to the Prisoners, it is usual to say a Ship is arriv'd.]
[Footnote 144: Some of the Dirt upon the Stairs is trod into knots so hard it is almost impossible to break it.]
[Footnote 145: _Smart_ generally begins his Stories with a _That's like_, &c., tho' it is not at all like the Story he tells.]