[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 128: Half a Guinea.] [Footnote 129: A Bedfellow so call'd.] [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 141: _Cole_, signifies Money.] [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.] [Footnote 146: The Master of the Cellar, a Man of a variable Temper, very passionate, malicious, and ill-natur'd at some times, at others very well.] [Footnote 147: _Who goes out?_ is repeated by Watchmen Prisoners, from half an Hour after Nine, till St. Paul's Clock strikes Ten, to give Visitors Notice to depart.] [Footnote 148: While St. Paul's Clock is striking Ten, the Watchmen don't call _Who goes out?_ but when the last Stroke is given, they cry _All told!_ at which Time the Gates are lock'd, and nobody suffer'd to go out upon any Account.] [Illustration] [Illustration] CHAPTER XXIV.