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50 rest Jack the Schoolmaster, who calls his exertions to prevent my writing or speaking correctly, dictating, he ever intruding his own style and endeavouring to force it upon me. He pretends to be the short-hand-writer, to register or record every thing which passes. He appears to have a seat with a desk some steps above the floor.

“V. The female of the gang called by the others Charlotte : she has always spoken French, even by her brain-sayings ; but I yet doubt whether she be a French woman, though so much of that description of person, for frequently it is English-French : though this may be from their vocabulary being English and French combined.

“W. The one I call the common liar of the gang, by them termed Sir Archy, who often speaks in obscene language. There