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The Colonial Dumping Ground

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(Americans)…are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging. -Samuel Johnson, 1769 (Boswells Johnson, Vol. II, pg. 312; Penny Cyclopaedia, XXV.…
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For Who Does the Bell Toll

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Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. N.B. This article was written as a story. While the happenings described here…
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Law and Order: The Original Series

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Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel. A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere.‘Many cartloads of our fellow creatures are once in six weeks carried to slaughter’-Henry Fielding,…
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Cant: Language of the Universal Travelers

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Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. For the Gypsies they and the Foul Disease have alike the Fate to…
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An Opera for Beggars

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Scoundrel’s Alley Presents: The Scholarly Scoundrel on A Continuing Series of Thoughts Pertinent to Historical Scoundrels Everywhere. To be Hanged by the Neck for the Sake of an Opera Written…
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