For, the instant it became known that anybody wanted the orphan, up started some affectionate relative of the orphan who put a price upon the orphan's head.

The suddenness of an orphan's rise in the market was not to be paralleled by the maddest records of the Stock Exchange.

He would be at five thousand per cent discount out at nurse making a mud pie at nine in the morning, and (being inquired for) would go up to five thousand per cent premium before noon.

The market was 'rigged' in various artful ways.

Counterfeit stock got into circulation.