often reached the ears of his brother brokers,
but hitherto the animal himself was personally unknown: to obviate this
difficulty, some sportive wight ascertained the stable where the old
gentleman usually left his nag during the time he was attending the
market, and by a well-executed forgery succeeded in bringing the pony to
Capel-court, when, without further ceremony, he was introduced into the
house during the high bustle of the market, to the no small amusement of
the house and the utter astonishment of his owner.

There is a new Stock Exchange established in Capel-court, where a number
of Jews, shopkeepers, and tradesmen assemble, and jobbers who have
emigrated from their friends in the upper house, some ~137~~of whom
have either been _ducks_, or have retired out of it on some honourable
occasion; but as all is conducted upon honour in this traffic of
gambling, these men also set up the principle of honour, on which they
risk what has been honourably brought away from their honourable fellow
labourers in the principal vineyard: these men stand generally in
the Alley, and, hearing what is going on in the other market (as they
speculate also upon the price established there), they will give advice
to strangers who may be on the out-look to make, as they expect, a
speedy fortune by dabbling in the stocks. If they find a person to be
respectable, they will offer to do business with him on the principle
of their brethren, and also exact the one-eighth per cent, as they do,
trusting to his honour, that (although they do not know where he lives)
he will appear on or before the settling day to balance the account, and
pay or receive the difference.{23}

These jobbers speculate a great deal upon puts and calls, and will give
a chance sometimes for a mere trifle. They have not, like the private
market, the public generally to work upon, the by-laws in the Stock
Exchange prohibiting any broker or jobber, being a regular member, from
dealing with them, on pain of forfeiting his right to re-enter; but,
notwithstanding, some of the brokers, and even the jobbers inside, will
run all risks when there appears a good chance of getting a turn on the
price in their favour: from this cause, however, the Alley, or New Stock
Exchange jobbers, are obliged to gamble more directly with each other;
consequently many get thrown to the leeward, and those who stand
longest are generally such as have other resources from the trade or

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