Transcriber’s Note: The cover image was produced by the transcriber using a modified illustration from the book, and is placed into the public domain.
A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.
| EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS. | |
 | No good; too poor, and know too much. |
 | Stop,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing). |
 | Go in this direction, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way. |
 | Bone (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here. |
 | Cooper’d (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. |
 | Gammy (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog. |
 | Flummuxed (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod,” prison. |
 | Religious, but tidy on the whole. |