"'I should like to know--if you wouldn't much mind--where the firing comes from?'
...'From the Hulks!'" (Dickens 21)
The "Hulks" were old merchant ships which were left floating in the river Thames in England and left and penitentiaries--this is where they kept criminals. When Mrs. Joe tells him that the Hulks were firing shots to alert people of the escape of a criminal, and that the Hulks anchored on the other side of the marshes, he knew that the man he had met in the graveyard was an escaped criminal.
http://www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.56/Prison-hulks-on-the-River-Thames.html
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