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(18) the drawer carries them about him all over the country, and diſpoſes of them, a ſecond indorſes, a third accepts, but none to pay.

But notwithſtanding all the arts and inſinuations of theſe Swindlers, they are eaſily ſingled out in company, from a pretended hurry in buſineſs, and fear of detection; eyeing every perſon aſkance, doubtful of having ſeen them before.

are more Pickpockets in and about London, than in all Europe beſide, that make a trade, and what they call a comfortable living, by their employment.—The Opera, Play-houſes, Capital Auctions, and Public Gardens, ſwarm with them; and, of late years, they have introduced themſelves into our very Churches, in which they have not been leſs ſucceſsful, at a charity Sermon preached by a Romaine, or other noted orator, than at the Theatres, at a Benefit, when the principal parts have been played by a Kemble, Siddons, Jordan, Incledon, Munden, and other firſt-rate performers. To ſet forth the different ways by a