Chapter 12

CONSTITUTION AND BY-LAWS OF THE SECRET BAND OF BROTHERS.

Initiation--Penalties--The Grand Masters--The secret writing--The six qualities, Huska, Caugh, Naugh, Maugh, Haugh, Gaugh--Vocabulary of flash words--The post-routes.--The horse-trade explained--Allowances-- Specimens of correspondence--The biter bit--A letter of introduction with an important note--Subsequent inquiry into the case 90