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23 companions, even Barnard's own brother, who was also a thief."

Haggart, in his remarks in prison, cautioned persons against needlessly and carelessly exposing their money to view. One example he gives is as follows:— We observed a gentleman, one morning, with a heap of notes in his hand, coming out of a banking-house. It was my turn to follow him. I did so, from place to place, without any chaneechance [sic] offering; something or another intervened, and it was full five in the evening before I could make a snatch at him; and then, to my great disappointment, I got only eleven pounds. He must have been paying it away, for it was in the very identical case I had seen him put the notes in the morning. While he was engaged in close conversation with a gentleman, I slipped past and robbed him so expertly that he was quite unconscious of the act.

When committed to Downpatrick jail, Haggart gives the following account of it:—

“I soon fouudfound [sic] iny fellow prisoners a queer set of lads. They had all their fancy women and I was not long behind them in that respect. One lodged above me whom I took a fancy to, and used, through a hole in the top of my cell to hand her up meat and liquor; and a part of every thing I had.

“The prisoners were here served out at three days' allowance at a time. One morning