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CHAP. III Monford meets with Snap, an old experienced Beggar, who gives him a Light into the mysteries of the Canting Trade.

MONFORD, having had good success by the side of the road, resolved to spend the rest of his time in this manner. He was one day encountered by an old proficient in the trade, who began to talk to him in the beggars dialect, (which kind of speech is known to none but themselves] Monford being ignorant, could make him no answer; which the other, whose name was Snap, perceiving, and knowing him, by that, to be a young beginner, he invited him to their rendezvous in Whitechapel; whither he went, and between them they tippled off four pots of rum, and then parted for that time.