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 virtue; wickedness, piety; treason, loyalty; robbery, justice. Plunder is their motto, and when acted by them is approved by all men, except the heretics; and all this they do because they dare; their authority is sovereign and irrefragable. Should all their villany be once displayed in its true colours and exposed to the people, there never was, is, nor will be any spokesman could save 'em; nor any magistrate so powerful as to hinder their being burnt alive in their coney-burrows without mercy. Even their own furred kittlings, friends and relations would abominate 'em.

The Gentleman Inside

(Contemporary American writer)

They's a banker that's a trusty workin' on the warden's books; I kin see him from the rock pile where I'm sittin', An' on his case I'm basin' this advice to feller crooks: You'd better git a plenty while yer gittin'. Now, this guy wrecked a county an' he copped his neighbor's dough; He got six hundred thousand, which is some change, as you know; They give him one or two years, an' the softest job here—Oh It pays to git a plenty while yer gittin'.

Wit' me little flask o' nitro an' me bar o' laundry soap, I blew a safe, an' then, as was befittin',