text:  The churchyard was crowded with ragamuffins of every kind from all the neighbouring parishes; scarcely was there a sot or deboshed fellow within the district who had not either come himself or found a substitute; gipsies beggarwomen and thimbleriggers were thick as blackberries; while Jack himself--who upon hearing of what was going forward had come down by the night coach with all expedition--was standing on a tombstone near the doorway and holding forth to the whole bevy of rascals whom he had assembled about him