howen

Updated: May 2, 2025

It’s all a howen to my having a twin brother, vich has wrongfully got into trouble, and vich is so exactly like me, that no vun ever knows the difference atween us.’ This representation, like the defence, fails in producing the desired effect, and the boy is sentenced, perhaps, to seven years’ transportation.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people