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Rh pestiferous abodes, which are so numerous in this metropolis, the loss of all he has is inevitable.

N.B. It is recommended over again not to be stopped in the streets, even by a handsome woman, though that should be by day. They have great nimbleness of lingers, and convey away your property while talking you into a silly passion for their persons,

Although it seems brutish to rebuke a woman who should press against you in a crowd, in a church, at an auction, or in the streets, yet this should be done. At the Rev. Rowland Hill's meeting house, the women attend as well as the men pickpockets; they are found amongst the crowd of a procession to St. Paul's, and in fact at every collection of people. Such women amuse you with asking silly questions; perhaps complain to you of some man who is pressing her, while one of her accomplices rifles your pockets in the mean time, from behind another accomplice, who keeps his arms up so as to prevent yours from defending your property. Perhaps she seizes your arm, as if for protection, but in fact to keep you from using it.

One very excellent trick for a woman to perform is, to turn round quick upon the gentleman to be robbed, and running hard against him,