Part 4 — CLXIII.
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We never go far without meeting some story about petty thieving:—
5th Figure.
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Oh Jilly oh! how you manage a jump the window? Oh Jilly oh! how you manage a jump the window? Doctor Clark a one an' tanner, Major Black a two an' six, Mister Nelson three an' six, How you manage a jump the window?
Jilly had been "tiefing" money and made her escape by jumping out of window. "Tanner," for sixpence, is common in English slang but not here. It seems to have been derived in this case from the White soldiers at Newcastle.