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Rh such things as in fact you never once so much as thought of. Think yourself well off if you get away without a black eye; but you must lay your account in a kick of the, or tweak by the nose.

N.B. Never suffer yourself to be goaded to purchase any article whatever in the streets: they are invariably cheats who attempt it. The shortest way is to decline the least particle of conversation; and if they place their fingers on your arm to stop your progress—peremptorily bid them "hands off," or if you have sufficient strength, knock them down. Whoever places his hand upon your person in the street has nothing good in view, be it man or woman.

JOBBERS of nearly the same description abound, who do not stop people in the street, but ply at public houses, offering for sale tobacco, shoes, coals, candles, and such other heterogeneous articles as they think likely to suit the company then there, or the landlord; which latter generally gets supplied with every article of housekeeping, including meat, poultry, salt, clothes, &c. from such "customers." They pretend to have commissions from respectable houses, whom