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COLONEL JACK.
25
CHAP. II.
I get acquainted with one of the most noted pick-pockets in town---We steal a letter-case full of bills---Dreadfully distressed how to dispose of my share of the booty---My comrade proposes I shall return the bills and get the reward promised---Proceedings thereupon.
The subtle devil, never absent from his business, but ready at all occasions to encourage his servants, removed all these difficulties, and brought me into an intimacy with one of the most exquisite divers, or pick-pockets, in the town; and this our intimacy was of no less a kind than that, as I had an inclination to be as wicked as any of them, he was for taking care that I should not be disappointed.
He was above the little fellows who went about stealing trifles and baubles in Bartholomew-Fair, and run the risque of being mobbed for 3s. or 4s.
