Six Years in the Prisons of England
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I knew him get150_l. _ from a gentleman in Devonshire once, and he thinks nothingof getting 30_l. _ of a morning. " Finding my friend so communicative and apparently so experienced in thevarious branches of his profession, I took advantage of everyconvenient opportunity to ascertain from him the meaning of the slangterms which my comrades made use of when conversing together, butthrough ignorance of which I was often unable to understand exactlywhat they were talking about. On another occasion ...I accordingly askedhim the meaning of a number of these terms which I had thus heardbandied about from time to time amongst them. On asking him about'macing' he replied-- "Macing means taking an office, getting goods sent to it, and then'bolting' with them; or getting goods sent to your lodgings and thenremoving. I'll tell you a game that you might try now and again as youhave a chance, and that is 'fawney dropping, ' you know 'fawney' means aring. Well, you must have a 'pal, ' and give him a 'snyde' ring with aticket and the price marked on it.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
I knew him get150_l. _ from a gentleman in Devonshire once, and he thinks nothingof getting 30_l. _ of a morning. " Finding my friend so communicative and apparently so experienced in thevarious branches of his profession, I took advantage of everyconvenient opportunity to ascertain from him the meaning of the slangterms which my comrades made use of when conversing together, butthrough ignorance of which I was often unable to understand exactlywhat they were talking about. On another occasion ...I accordingly askedhim the meaning of a number of these terms which I had thus heardbandied about from time to time amongst them. On asking him about'macing' he replied-- "Macing means taking an office, getting goods sent to it, and then'bolting' with them; or getting goods sent to your lodgings and thenremoving. I'll tell you a game that you might try now and again as youhave a chance, and that is 'fawney dropping, ' you know 'fawney' means aring. Well, you must have a 'pal, ' and give him a 'snyde' ring with aticket and the price marked on it.
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