Trial of John Jasper, lay precentor of Cloisterham Cathedral in the County of Kent, for the murder of Edwin Drood, engineer

by England) Dickens Fellowship (London

Witness: I did not keep scores there, but I saw other people.

Mr. Chesterton: How do you know how they were kept?

Witness: I did not say I did know exactly, but I learned that a little mark meant a certain quantity, a bigger mark more, and so on.

Mr. Chesterton: You like the old tavern way of keeping scores, but do not know how it is done?

Witness: I know that a man that had quarts had large strokes, and a man that had pints smaller ones.

Mr. Chesterton: You swear that was done in Ceylon?

Witness: I swear that sort of thing was done there.

Mr. Chesterton: What sort of drinks do they have there?

Witness: I never had their drinks. I saw them drinking, but I did not know what it was. But I saw the scores being kept on the back of the door.

Mr. Chesterton: Do you know what they were drinking at all?