CHAPTER III.

THE BAD INDEXER.

"At the laundress's at the Hole in the Wall in Cursitor's Alley up three pair of stairs, the author of my Church history--you may also speak to the gentleman who lies by him in the flock bed, my index maker."--SWIFT'S _Account of the Condition of Edmund Curll_ (Instructions to a porter how to find Mr. Curll's authors).