times
paid her rent if in arrear. She paid I think but twenty-five shillings a
week for her board and lodging together. My too exclusive attentions for
a week had prevented her regulars from coming. There was lots of cheaper
cunt in the neighbourhood so to send them away with full balls was
dangerous.

The house was kept by an old man and woman, he a carpenter almost too
old, yet who went to daily work. He used to fetch gin and beer for us.
There was no lodger in the house. They were a decent couple, and after a
time I used to talk to the old woman, and when Mary once went away ill,
she got me a beautifully shaped girl, I had offered her money to get me
a girl of about fourteen years of age, a virgin. The streets about there
swarmed with girls and boys who played about at night, I could hear
their smutty language as they ran after each other yelling, laughing
and quarrelling. She tried, but never could; she was not a woman who
undertook that sort of thing, but the money tempted her. "There are lots
of girls about," said she, "their mothers don't care what they do, but
you want a virgin,--Lor! where's she to be found?--when they's about
thirteen or fourteen years old they won't be kept in, they is about the
dark streets at night, and Lor! if you heard what I have in the streets
where the costers' barrows is, of a night!" And so the old woman
intimated that all the young girls of that select neighbourhood, were
got into by the coster boys, and that a virginity was a rarety at
fourteen years old. I afterwards groped several young girls in those
dark streets, and there was certainly no obstacle to my fingers
searching their cunts.

"I thinks I knows a steady little gal, whose mother's just died, her
father ain't no good, and you and Mary must ask her in; I can't have
nothin to do with it except gettin her here." One day afterwards she
told me she had asked the girl to tea, and that she was as curious as
could be to know all about it (meaning fucking). "She knows as much as
we do," said the old woman with a chuckle. "Was far as talking goes and
she would like to know as much as them as does it as well, but she is
timid; there is three of them, she is the eldest, the father leaves her
in charge, you shall see her." Mary Davis had gone home ill. The girl
was brought in, I sent out for gin, a nice little girl she was, and she
drank some of it. The old woman then left with a wink. The girl took my
kisses very well, never said