Bessy knew it was called “Calverton's School” — and though many who attended it were big men who ought to have known their letters better, yet others were only youths, and a few quite little boys, who wore their hair in “number sixes” at the temples, when law had left them hair sufficient for such ornamentation.

Fizgigs? Wood asks. / Pimps. A fizgig is an agent provocateur – he gets you to do something you shouldn't do and that will hang you in court. A pimp gets you to do something innocuous that will still hang you.[…]

He hath his Winter too of pale Misfeature, / Or else he would forego his mortal nature.

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