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The unexpected Legacy--Bernard Blackmantle and Bob Transit
visit Capel Court--Characters in the Stocks--Bulls, Bears
and Bawds, Brokers, Jews and Jobbers--A new Acquaintance,
Peter Principal--His Account of the Market--The Royal
Exchange--Tricks upon Travellers--Slating a Stranger--The
Hebrew Star and his Satellites--Dividend Hunters and
Paragraph Writers--The New Bubble Companies--Project
Extraordinary--Prospectus in Rhyme of the Life, Death,
Burial, and Resurrection Company--Lingual Localisms of the
Stock Exchange explained--The Art and Mystery of Jobbing
exposed--Anecdotes of the House and its Members--Flying a
Tile--Billy Wright's Brown Pony--Selling a Twister--A Peep
into Botany Bay--Flats and Flat-catchers--The Rotunda and
the Transfer Men--How to work the Telegraph--Create a Rise--
Put on the Pot--Bang down the Market--And waddle out a Lame
Duck.
A bequest of five hundred pounds by codicil from a rich old aunt had
most unexpectedly fallen to my friend Transit, who, quite unprepared for
such an overwhelming increase of good fortune, was pondering on the
best means of applying this sudden acquisition of capital, when I
accidentally paid him a visit in Half-moon Street.
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