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There was living at Somers Town at that time a little man named Jakobs.
He was a man of some character, albeit an unfortunate person with "something behind him. " The something behind him, however, had come short of a lagging. "Carpets" (three months' hard labour) almost innumerable had fallen to his share, but a lagging had never come his way.