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 7 CHAP. III. Monford meets with Snap, an old experi- enced Beggar, who gives him a Light into the mysteries of the Canting Trade. MONFORD, having had good success spend the rest of his time in this man. tr. He was one day encountered by an d proficient in the trade, who began to Ik to him in the beggars dialect, (which ind of speech is known to none but them- selves] Monford being ignorant, could ake him no answer; which the other, hose name was Snap, perceiving, and nowing him, by that, to be a young be- he invited him to their rendezvous Whitechapel; whither he went, and between them they tippled off four pots hum, and then parted for that time,