Crossword-Solution: LOCKSMITHING 12 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 24

ENTERING PRISON--THE SCYTHE SNATH BUSINESS--BLISTERED HANDS--I LEARN NOTHING--THREAT TO KILL THE SHOP--KEEPER--LOCKSMITHING--OPEN REBELLION--SIX WEEKS IN THE DUNGEON--ESCAPE OF A PRISONER--IN THE DUNGEON AGAIN--THE MAD MAN, HALL--HE ATTEMPTS TO MURDER THE DEPUTY--I SAVE MOREY’S LIFE--HOWLING IN THE BLACK HOLE--TAKING OFF HALL’S IRONS--A GHASTLY SPECTACLE--A PRISON FUNERAL--I AM LET ALONE--BETTER TREATMENT--THE FULL TERM OF MY IMPRISONMENT.

Carpentry and tailoring and painting and plumbing, locksmithing and copper-smithing go on there, touching elbows with frying and feeding, and the vending of all the strange and hideous forms of flesh, fish, and fowl.

The children of the first are taught to exercise with the gymnastic apparatus of the system Pichery, and their rudimentary senses are cultivated by giving them small objects to see, to touch, to weigh, etc.; in both schools, but principally in that of the older pupils, systematic instruction is imparted in the workrooms of cabinet-making, shoemaking, sewing, locksmithing, basket-making, the plaiting of straw seats for chairs, brushmaking, and printing.

Let us rear our young ones: and let the Dauphin learn locksmithing from others than you, if he wants to, like his father before him.

The lock which would first alarm the household by setting off a pistol and then brand the thief's hand, is described by the Marquis of Worcester in his book "Centurie of Inventions." As locks and locksmithing form my hobby, while in England I purchased the entire set of patent-books, to add to a collection of locks and fastenings from every known country of the world.