There was an Anglo-German; he was very respectably dressed, only he had neither shoes or stockings, and though of small stature, had a voice like thunder; he was of course, considered a first-rate patterer (caller). Another, a merchant's clerk and active young man, and an excellent mimic, but a _Careless_ himself. The third, a Welshman; one who might have caused a painter to halt--a model of strength; in size and form like one of his own mountain bulls, with a voice as hoarse as the winter's blast on Snowdon. He was a fine compound of ruffianism, shrewdness, and a sort of caustic humour. The fourth and last, was a tall, genteel young man, a draper, or, rather had been; he was still very smart, although much out at elbows. He had a pair of fine large, showy, sharp-pointed whiskers; was exceedingly fond of hard words, and, in his speech, superfine in the extreme. He had been highly chagrined that very night, at a person expressing surprise at seeing him at Cadger's Hall, he considering that a man might make himself respectable wherever he might be, always provided that he conducted himself with propriety; in short, maintaining to the very last, the shadow of his former consequence. [Illustration] The clock chimed the warning to the final hour. A policeman came in, supporting a man he had picked up in the streets in the last stage of inebriation. Ben put out one of the lights, and gave notice that it was time to move. The landlord busied himself in rousing two or three slumberers by sundry shakes and pushes with his foot,--not, reader to go to bed, but to go out,--they being lodgers who, having run out of coin and out of credit, were allowed for old acquaintance sake, to lie about the kitchen while it was open, but were invariably desired to depart at the lock-up hour. The poor wretches got up, buttoned their clothes about them, thrust their hands into their bosoms, and shuffled out half asleep, a melancholy instance of the trials of the children of poverty and crime. The lodgers moved slowly off to bed, one by one; the kitchen was securely locked up, and the landlord then walked away, leaving drunkenness, misery and debauchery about the door. [Illustration] FLASH DICTIONARY. [Illustration] A. Abbess, a bawd, the mistress of a bawdyken Abbott's Priory, the King's Bench Prison Abram Cove, a naked or poor man, a sturdy beggar in rags Above par, having the needful, possession of the poney, plenty of money, 'best bliss of earth' Abram men, fellows dressing themselves in various rags, old ribbon, fox tails, begging in the streets, pretending to be mad, fellows who steal pocket books only Abram, to sham, to slum, to pretend sickness Academy, a brothel, bagnio Academican, a scholar at an academy, a whore at a brothel Academy, a floating, a hulk at Woolwich for convicts Ack ruffians, rogues who in conjunction with watermen sometimes rob and murder on the water Ack pirates, fresh water thieves who steal on navigable rivers