Pot. Yes; for I got into conversation with one of them, who told me that it meant the brain, the skull.
J. N. ( writing ). “The rent of ability is a cant phrase in use among these people signifying the head.”
Mr. H. Well?
Pot. Well, then they laughed and said, Well, as far as he is concerned, smash it when you can catch it.
Mr. H. Did you gather whose head it was that they were speaking of?
Pot. Yes; his lordship’s.
Mr. H. ( impressively and plaintively ). And why?
Pot. Because they said he had jugged their comrades like a damned old smoutch!
J. N. Jugged?
Pot. Put them in prison, my lord.