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coat wi' tlieir heade, ami grabbing, and scuttling. Then they got irore artful ami olevor. They chummed in witii real, swell workmen that passed things to 'em in a crowd. And they watched out and see how it was done, and they hoard Black Maria a-oalling 'era. 'They «m> their betters at workwifch nippors, snapping watch-diains, and getting their umbrellas mixed, up witli coat-taiLs; aaid holding up a pocket with their left daddlw while they went through it with thoir right. They see 'om in a roaring crowd, being twisted round and looking hot and silly, and frightened and helpless—all actingtill they come, face to face with someone that's worth doing down, and thon Retting under their open jackets and lifting thoir pocket-books, neat as jovah! Omj movo done it, quick as the Box o' Tricks' left-lead. All in a flash and a flick o' tho wrist and— domino! For it would hardly do to be slow and careful, like a fat old man a-sitting down on a low park-chair. Not much it -wouldn't! "They helped, aa I say, by having the stuff handed to 'em and shadowing tho workman at His job so as tho cops couldn't nark him, and treading on tho greener'e heels and making him turn round. And in course they got in time bo as they must have a little flutter on their lonesome. "And perhaps they clicked first time and perhaps they never. And if they clicked then it was dinner for tea when they got home and ehowed off the swag. And they were encouraged to go on., and put up to a wheeze or two. Then, I grant you, they may ha' $r>t a bit o proper practice. They may have got into the good books of a sportsman, and he may have let them try | their 'prentice hand on him. Then they did a bit wi' their pals, for lojo of it, givinp , the blunt back afterwards, honourable: and taking a soft half-looper in the lug with a grin, ac it wasnt meant spiteful but a sort o' caress. "It's the only form o' sport taut some little gangs I could tell you of go in for: that pinching off of one another, playful. And a boy ecom gets «> K™»y the ropes, if it's in his blood and he's taught right. x I , . ■■ POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS. "So, jwi see, there ain't no secrete in it at all," eaid Dunny. "Just sleight-of-hand and smart on the dip and a face like a -B-hite-waeihed wali for tnnooemoe. Though of course as a pogehunter gets on lie moves lip. Clobbers himeelf in a frockihat and top-coat and all, and wears a mudguard round his neck. Sticks a window in hie eye and goes Wesf! Gets a blowen, perhaps, to hang on his arm that he can pass the etuff to. Or danders down to, Epsom or eomewhere,,else in. a badger, a bird's eye suit, and brown, dai&yroots; and samples the flyr*ate on tare' course -or iii tMe' all in the programme/ And ;there ain't a better pasture in all the world than a big raoe-meeting. Mostly every-: body's got a bit to-put on their fancy at the commencement'; and come of 'em have got a -rare parcel to carry with 'em—and I- to Pongelo as they get down their thirsty throttle*. „.' '. . , 1 .. "But there's one thing a pickpocket oan't get over," remarked Dunny, reflectively. ■ ■•■■J. __, "I'm glad to hear that. What v it?" I asked. "Nuts," he replied, with a shake of the bead. "Ye*—nuts! If you're carrying a warm lot o 1 dibs stow the etuff away in your trousers-pockete and then buy a penn'orth ©' filberts and put 'em on top o , the stuff. And—you take it from mc, old son—tliere ain't a poge-hunter in the world'!! be able rob you, then." l(

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