A CADGER’S MAP OF A BEGGING DISTRICT.
EXPLANATION OF THE HIEROGLYPHICS.
  • ☓ [Cross] NO GOOD; too poor, and know too much.
  • ◠+ [Semicircle plus cross] STOP,—if you have what they want, they will buy. They are pretty “fly” (knowing).
  • ⸧— [Forked branch] GO IN THIS DIRECTION, it is better than the other road. Nothing that way.
  • ◇ [Diamond] BONE (good). Safe for a “cold tatur,” if for nothing else. “Cheese your patter” (don’t talk much) here.
  • ▽ [Downward pointing triangle] COOPER’D (spoilt), by too many tramps calling there.
  • □ [Square] GAMMY (unfavourable), likely to have you taken up. Mind the dog.
  • ☉ [Circle with dot] FLUMMUXED (dangerous), sure of a month in “quod” (prison).
  • ⊕ [Circle with cross] RELIGIOUS, but tidy on the whole.
See page 37.
A DICTIONARY  OF  MODERN SLANG, CANT,  AND  VULGAR WORDS,
USED AT THE PRESENT DAY IN THE STREETS OFLONDON; THE UNIVERSITIES OF OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE; THE HOUSES OFPARLIAMENT; THE DENS OF ST. GILES; AND THE PALACES OF ST. JAMES.
PRECEDED BY A  HISTORY OF CANT AND VULGARLANGUAGE;WITH  GLOSSARIES OF TWO SECRET LANGUAGES,  SPOKEN BY THE WANDERINGTRIBES OF LONDON, THE COSTERMONGERS, AND THE PATTERERS.
By A LONDON ANTIQUARY.
“Rabble-charming words, which carry so much wild-fire wrapt up  in them.”—South.
SECOND EDITION,
REVISED, WITH TWO THOUSAND ADDITIONAL WORDS.
LONDON:
JOHN CAMDEN HOTTEN, PICCADILLY.
1860.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY TAYLOR AND GREENING, GRAYSTOKE-PLACE,
FETTER-LANE, E.C.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The First Edition of this work had a rapid sale, andwithin a few weeks after it was published the entireissue passed from the publisher’s shelves into the handsof the public. A Second Edition, although urgentlycalled for, was not immediately attempted. The Firsthad been found incomplete a                        
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