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*Transcriber’s Note:* Archaic spellings have been retained; obvious errors of spelling and punctuation have been corrected.
SINKS OF LONDON LAID OPEN: - A - Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, - TO WHICH IS ADDED A - MODERN FLASH DICTIONARY - CONTAINING ALL THE - CANT WORDS, SLANG TERMS, AND FLASH PHRASES - NOW IN VOGUE, - WITH - A LIST OF THE SIXTY ORDERS OF - PRIME COVES, - The whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snoozing Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. - EMBELLISHED WITH HUMOROUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY - GEORGE CRUIKSHANK.
CHAPTER I. - COMMON LODGING HOUSES, CADGERS, &c., &c.
CHAPTER II. - ST. GILES’S—THE CADGER’S HEAD-QUARTERS.
CHAPTER III. - THE CADGING HOUSE.
CHAPTER IV. - A BEGGAR’S REPAST.
CHAPTER V. - AN EVENING MEAL—A FEAST FOR AN ALDERMAN.
CHAPTER VI. - A QUIET SCENE.
CHAPTER VII. - A LITTLE LITERARY CONVERSATION.
CHAPTER VIII. - THE GAMING TABLE.
Full title
Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (152K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Bryan Ness, Linda Cantoni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Release date
2007-11-02
Rights
Public domain in the USA.

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