ey stood over the gratings
usually with the greatest unconcern, looking at the shop windows, or
only glanced below for an instant, at the dark, uninhabitated looking
area.

This was the beginning of a new state of things. We got reckless; Henry
had business to attend to, I none, I ceased to think about what might be
said of our being so much in the store-house; and used to go by myself,
and stay there two or three hours at a time. Then I gave way to erotic
excesses. My prick would stand as I went down the stairs. I used to wait
prick in hand, playing with it, looking up and longing for a poke
until I saw a pair of thighs plainly, then able to stand it no longer,
frigged; hating myself even whilst I did it, and longing to put my spunk
in the right place. I used to catch it in one hand, whilst I frigged
with the other, then fling the spunk up towards the girls' legs. It was
madness; for although the feet of the women were not three feet above my
head, yet the smallness of the quantity thrown (after what stuck to my
fingers), and the iron bars above, seemed to make it impossible that any
of it should reach its intended destination; but I think it did one day.
A youngish female was stooping, and showing part of her thighs. I flung
up what I had just discharged; suddenly her legs closed, she stepped
quickly aside, looked down and went away. I am still under the
impression that a drop of my sperm, must have hit her naked legs.

We both also grew more lascivious, having frigged before each other, we
took to frigging each other. I went to my home, on going back, found
he had taken other young men to see the legs. One night five of us had
dinner, we smoked and drank, our talk grew baudier; we had mostly been
schoolfellows, and dare say we had all seen each other's doodles, but I
cannot assert that positively. We finished by showing them to each other
now, betting on their length and size, and finished up by a frigging
sweep-stakes for him who spent first.

At a signal, five young men (none I am sure nineteen years old) seated
on chairs in the middle of the room began frigging themselves, amidst
noise and laughter. The noise soon subsided, the voices grew quiet, then
ceased, and was succeeded by convulsive breathing sighs and long-drawn
breaths, the legs of some writhed, and stretched out, their backsides
wriggled on the chairs, one suddenly stood up. Five hands were frigging
as fast as they could, the prick-knobs standing out