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with a cant dictionary, I shall briefly explain in succession: viz., buzzing[1], dragging[2], sneaking[3], hoisting[4], pinching[5], smashing[6] jumping[7], spanking[8], and starring[9]; together with the kidrig[10], the letter-racket [11], the order-racket[12], and the snuff-racket[13].
In these various exploits, we were sometimes assisted by a third person; and at others, though very
- ↑ Picking pockets in general.
- ↑ Robbing carts, or carriages, of bales, trunks, &c.
- ↑ Entering a house or shop, unobserved, and stealing whatever is most come-at-able.
- ↑ Shop-lifting.
- ↑ Secreting small trinkets of value in a shop, while pretending to select and purchase something.
- ↑ Uttering counterfeit money, or forged bank-notes.
- ↑ Getting in at the lower windows of private houses, and robbing the apartments of plate or other portable goods.
- ↑ Breaking a shop-window at night, having first tied the door to prevent a pursuit, then snatching at any articles of value within reach.
- ↑ Cutting a hole in a pane of glass, without noise, in order to rob the window of something before determined on.
- ↑ Defrauding errand boys, or porters, of their load, by false pretences of various kinds.
- ↑ Obtaining money from charitable persons, by some fictitious statement of distress.
- ↑ Obtaining goods from a tradesman by false pretences, or by a forged order in writing.
- ↑ Throwing snuff in the eyes of a shop-keeper, and then running off with such money or valuable property as may lay within reach.
