Originally stealing children as young as 6 years old, spiriters discovered to their disgust those children were too weak to survive the harsh conditions of transit. So they targeted children 8 years or older. One French spiriter claimed to have sold more than 500 children in a year's time.

Nobody can doubt, particularly if country be taken into the consideration, that the grinders and retailers of Mundungus were among the author's encouragers. … that he had told the Secretary of the Treasury, that if the Mundungus was taxed, “he would be damn'd if ever he forgave him, while he had an existence.”

Being a Plymouth girl, I had heard plenty of racy stories about navy chaps, or fishheads as we called you. The navy regularly swarmed the streets of Plymouth on a Saturday night.

Out of water grow all vegetable and animal substances, which consist as well of sulphureous. fat, and inflammable parts, as of earthy and alcolizate ones.